Atheists & Agnostics

I'm probably thinking of another book. That story is really bugging me now and I'm going to try and find it.

Hypatia was murdered around 415 CE...without any kind of a trial. She was dragged out of her chariot by a mob of fanatical Xian monks and hacked to death. Probably slowly, with sea-shells.

The place of her murder is a very famous spot in Alexandria. According to tradition she was killed right in front of the Caesareum, the building built by Cleopatra VII to honor Julius Caesar. And where Cleopatra herself died.

I lived in Alexandria, Egypt for about 4 years. So I can bore people to death with trivia about it. And often do, right in this very group.

Here's a good article about Hypatia:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/womens-history/hypatia-ancient-alexandrias-great-female-scholar-10942888/?no-ist