re: #260 abolitionist

I thought the burning of Joan D’Arc and Bruno were more famous. Didn’t learn of Hypatia until I read some histories of science and mathematics some years after college.
/being argumentative

But Jean was a religious zealot too, so it doesn’t really count :p Hypatia was a scientist and a scholar, and an extremely influential woman.

You’re right, she’s not well known, but her death was the precursor of the dark times which followed. She’s sort of the embodiment of the fall of Rome, at least to me. The world would be a much different place today if that particular sect of Christianity hadn’t managed to infect the empire.