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Hypatia

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A far-famed lady teacher of Greek philosophy in Alexandria, distinguished for her beauty and purity of life, who, one day in 415, on her return home from her lecture-room, was massacred in the streets of the city, at the instance, of both Jews and Christians, as a propagator of paganism.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Hypatia'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​h/hypatia.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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