#Hypatia of #Alexandria #weeps again.
Not because the library burned.
She already mourned that.
She weeps because people still confuse authority with truth,
because they call conquest “preservation”
and canon “knowledge.”
She taught #mathematics under open #sky .
She traced #ellipses while #gods argued politely in the margins.
She #believed the #universe could be approached without #permission
without #fear
without a final answer stapled shut.
They didn’t #kill her for being wrong.
They #killed her for #refusing to #kneel to certainty.
Her body was torn, yes, but that wasn’t the real violence.
The real #violence was declaring inquiry #heresy and #curiosity a #threat
So when modern builders say
“We’re restoring Alexandria”
and lead with the very text that crowned orthodoxy king,
Hypatia weeps
because the #lesson wasn’t #lost
it was ignored. Again.
#Alexandria didn’t die in flames.
It died when questions became dangerous.
And every time someone rebuilds the shelves, but not the #courage ,
she weeps again.
Not loudly.
Mathematicians rarely do.
Just a quiet, eternal grief
for a species that keeps choosing answers over wonder.
Yep, ima still big mads on this.
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Hypatia's little school's biggest sponsor and political protector was Bishop Theophilus.
(The same who masterminded the riot that destroyed the Serapeum. He may have stolen its library for her father).
His replacement, Bishop Cyril, blamed her for his poor relations with the Governor (Orestes), and she was murdered by a gang trying to gain Cyril's favour.
History is messy, and rarely aligns with modern political framing.
Sorry about that.
This life has been hard enough.