honestrosewater said:
I like your name- I was going to write a movie about her once- someone should- very sad story.
it would be odd, the non-christians are the civilized folk, the scholars, poets, mathematicians
and the bad guys are the christians----they are the brutal, the bigoted, the murderous, the uneducated mob etc.
so she and the governor of Alexandria (the prefect Orestes) were having a love affair? and this scumbag christian Bishop incited a mob against her and they killed her bit by bit in the street, scraping off her flesh with sharp clamshells.
and she never offended anybody as far as I know!
she was just a mathematician who proved some theorems about conic sections or some kind of curves
well I don't know if it is a sad story or not. it is a story about religious fanaticism in the Middle East
but it is also a story about the civilized greek-speaking society of Alexandria when? circa 400? and those people measured the circumference of the Earth and the distance to the moon and preserved poetry from 800 years previous like sappho and they had a fairly accurate astronomy and so on. She was just one of a number of cool people.
the fact that she was a woman is accidental
the fact that she died in a mobscene at the hands of christian fanatics is accidental
what remains is the high level of culture and civilization she was a part of
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