The murder of ancient Alexandria's greatest scholar - Soraya Field Fiorio

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Dive into the life of one of Ancient Rome’s most powerful figures, Hypatia of Alexandria, a renowned scholar and political advisor to the city's leaders.
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In the city of Alexandria in 415 CE, the bishop and the governor were in a fight. It started with a disagreement over the behavior of a militia of monks, and ended with an accusation of witchcraft leveled against one of the most powerful figures in the city: Hypatia, philosopher and advisor to the city’s leaders. Who was Hypatia and why was she deemed a threat? Soraya Field Fiorio investigates.
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@onlyonemitch5049 5 лет назад

I think this is why most students hate math. They never found passionate teachers who made them see the beauty of it. They made it seem like a mundane, complicated long thought-provoking process. When in actuality it was a form of scientific art.

@lilianabeatrizpino2096 4 года назад

Well other teachers just teach math like its just plain math..

@minaolenella869 4 года назад

you can not write a book before you know letters. Learning to read and write is a complicated, mundane and long process.

@mikaqupcake4388 4 года назад

I would've LOVED math if it was thaught this way

@isisbaez6331 4 года назад

I know there are some teachers out there that wanna make it fun and exciting it's just the system is like: no

@qingyuli5460 4 года назад

and the speed of how the teacher teaches us math

@basicbot7349 5 лет назад

I felt particularly bad, when the narrator said they dragged her body, such a lovely soul lost to religious extremism..

@TylerSolvestri 5 лет назад

Religion extremism have killed a lot of amazingly brilliant minds throughout history.

@jenniferbates2811 5 лет назад

@@TylerSolvestri and it still happens today. Most religions are toxic

@jenniferbates2811 5 лет назад

@@subhankarmohanta7546 I'm sorry hun. Not that you live in India, I'm sorry that your freedom of expression is hard. I'm an atheist.

@puffdaddy9973 5 лет назад

@@jenniferbates2811 Religions themselves aren't toxic, its the people following them. I think that people who kill people over religion aren't really killing because of the religion. I think for the most part, they are just so full of anger and hate and it manifests itself in religious extremism. Many religions actually speak of peace and not violence. If we didn't have religion, people would find another reason to kill others.

@jenniferbates2811 5 лет назад

@@puffdaddy9973 yes and no. I just wish that education was better valued over whichever way to live. Your mind, body and soul belongs to you and no one else.

@sujalkoirala3675 5 лет назад

Father was a mathematician. Mother was unknown. Her mother must be x.

@RunaSunset 5 лет назад

Certainly an XX

@oracle372 5 лет назад

Yes, his X wife

@cillianhenry677 5 лет назад

And since she was also studying stars it could also refer to the "x planet" ^^

@LADY_JEMIMA_FORTESCUE 5 лет назад

Then find x

@gorgeouspotahto 5 лет назад

If y is daughter of x and x is the wife of Hypatia's father. Find y

@Joeyblondewolf2 5 лет назад

Messed up how most religious Christian people back then break one of the most important laws... Thou shall not kill....

@anon1ymous860 5 лет назад

Also according to Greek historians, Cyril didnt give that order. It was a group of fanatics that were led by someone called Peter that killed her out of envy. They used religion to hide their actions. You are still correct tho.

@ronnieb1837 4 года назад

They're still doing. It has been, and will remain, a constant.

@omega0195 4 года назад

And? It's inevitable

@thomasdaywalt7735 4 года назад

cathlolic thinking

@thomasdaywalt7735 4 года назад

besides it waspolitical

@cuItcore 3 года назад

“Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.” - Hypatia

@rahmakhaled7429 2 года назад

that is how i started off my uni application, the book written about her was sooo inspiring

@Mithroun 2 года назад

but i believe to think wrongly is worst. that actually caused her death

@armando2814 Год назад

@@Mithroun in a way, if we never think wrong we wouldnt have the chance to think right to be mistaken is the fate of humanity, as sad as it is

@Yogis_BitterTruth_Nirvan Год назад

She was a yogini

@Essuna Год назад

@@Mithrounnot exactly. People who follow religion so blindly, or political leaders, idealisms, etc in such a way they are not thinking, as they just follow what they are told and believe blindly in it without actually stopping to think "is this okay? Does this agree with my own soul?" The majority of people in this world sadly follow others without ever questioning them, so they are not thinking. I mean, look people with influencers 🤷

@aryandivyanshu8324 5 лет назад

"Numbers were the sacred language of universe." Hypatia was so correct.

@aedenthegreatyt 5 лет назад

Indeed she was

@minskghoul 5 лет назад

It is old Pythagorean idea, already old by the time of Hypatia.

@prosperokwu5541 5 лет назад

Pythagoras said that ages before her

@darnit1944 5 лет назад

_THE NUMBERS. WHAT DO THEY MEAN!?_

@angeljoyvista6471 4 года назад

True.

@hafsa7951 5 лет назад

Ted Ed narrators always have a nice voice

@raz0229 5 лет назад

**breathes heavily**

@mr.h5436 5 лет назад

I could listen to her read a dictionary! :)

@randomknowledgeperson2872 5 лет назад

so calm

@nathanpilapil7758 5 лет назад

:)))))))

@koungmeng 5 лет назад

Lol

@remember1ify 5 лет назад

The ending was so somber. The death of a educated creative individual sparked the decline of the mindset she fostered in that part of the world. I'm elated that we as a species care enough about the world to relearn these ideals. But it's tragic that progress could be stunted in such a real was due to a twisted political maneuver.

@remember1ify 5 лет назад

*Real way, due to

@isabeau9852 5 лет назад

@Ni Ra Hahahahahahaahahahahahahahaha........

@reina4969 5 лет назад

Why are you afraid to say the obvious... religion kills rational thought.

@Ash-cb2li 5 лет назад

Saint Knight I know right, it’s crazy how genuinely intelligent people put aside their rational thought when they talk about religion. It just goes to show how indoctrinating religion is

@somethingofnovalue 5 лет назад

Part of the species, to be correct. Plenty of people today are still not much different from the mobs that killed Hypatia. After all, reason is not a natural trait, but a learned one. Those who could not or choose not to acquire it are all the same, no matter what ages they live in.

@netowner666 4 года назад

"Murdered and dismembered" Well that wasn't very Christian of them, was it

@ioannispolemarkhos7364 4 года назад

@@alphaforce8071 It was also humane, according to the Greeks and Romans, that it's allowed to kill toddlers if the father does not want it, and also humane to own slaves when you conquer a people, using them as free labor instead of killing them. Christian values, however, insist that people are guilty, and if they are indeed terrible, it's nothing shocking.

@lisa-hv7vb 4 года назад

@@ioannispolemarkhos7364 how tf is that considered humane

@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 4 года назад

In fact, it is surprisingly Christian, sadly.

@alexandrian7772 4 года назад

Very christian

@queenofunderland 4 года назад

As a Christian, I may be the one accursing it. Who is with me??!

@dspiritlight 5 лет назад

So in other words, blind faith in religion and looking down on women, destroyed a city of once great learning? Sounds like times didn't change much.

@orthodoxoschristianos435 5 лет назад

+Andrew Cheng Yes, they did. In the twentieth century scientists and monks were mass-murdered because of blind faith in atheism. Empires of great learning were destroyed, not just cities.

@Window4503 5 лет назад

There was no mention of misogyny. If you look further, many women helped with the spread of Christianity. This isn’t a case of blind faith, but a lack of self control and a misunderstanding of the faith.

@theresahall8206 4 года назад

Some things never change.

@orthodoxoschristianos435 4 года назад

@CrooK There can be different philosophical explanations for the universe. None of them is based on direct experience. So whichever explanation you adopt, it will have a share of faith. A strong case can be made that the theistic explanation of the universe is more likely than the atheistic one. For example, the universe is definitely fine-tuned for the existence of life in it. If it is fine-tuned, there must be a fine-tuner, a Creator. And that is basically how theism defines God, the Creator. As Stephen Hawking noted, "The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron. ... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life." Stephen Hawking, 1988. A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, ISBN 0-553-05340-X, pp. 7, 125.

@orthodoxoschristianos435 4 года назад

@CrooK www. youtube. com/ watch?v=EE76nwimuT0

@brane4859 5 лет назад

"I am still learning" - Michelangelo, age 87

@naggu1243 5 лет назад

jim glass what?

@jimglass4979 5 лет назад

@Ni Ra what this quote got to do with this video?

@SQW0 5 лет назад

"I already have all the answers." - religious nut jobs of all ages while pointing at the bible.

@sancez8020 5 лет назад

I am stiiiiiiillll learning, so fking inspirational,omfg I did in 2nd grade as well, nothing special

@3mar00ss6 5 лет назад

@Saint Knight language 100

@duchi882 5 лет назад

*When you realize* Many of the things in Alexandria is either killed or burned

@3rdEyeGnosis 5 лет назад

Don't stop there my friend. Find out why, what and for whom. Youve only just begun.

@msm2011msm 5 лет назад

Still unfortunately.

@djkong20 5 лет назад

@@3rdEyeGnosis and where can we find why? Any suggestions/recommends? :)

@albertamalachi3560 5 лет назад

Alexandria, before even when there was an Alexandria, had been lucky/unlucky enough to be a strategic foothold and a place that gives quick access to the region whether for military or trade reasons. An access to the riches of the Mediterranean, Europe, and Africa. A city, region, or country that is a hub or a transit for things must always be wary that the fates will always push them down, break their backs, and trample over them with suffering, subjugation, and sorrow.

@ChannelCzarovski 5 лет назад

you frickin fricks when will you learn when will you learn Many of the things in Alexandria is either killed or burned

@cassidy4037 5 лет назад

why, why are we like this

@pvtpain66k 5 лет назад

Religion. Why do you think all the smart people left?

@oldnelson4298 5 лет назад

@@fartz3808 Religion and ideology are two sides of the same coin.

@oldnelson4298 5 лет назад

Looks like F Artz deleted their comment, so mine seems out of context now.

@semicolon2599 5 лет назад

I'm an atheist, and while I don't know much about things like religion, I know enough to know that not all religion is bad. Unfortunately, many religious people were...idiots.

@TheEphemeralMammal 5 лет назад

Just look no further than Poland today. Huge brain drain due to irrational zealots wielding power.

@ΓιώργοςΚοντογεωργίου-γ9β 2 года назад

Two significant corrections: i) Some of the works of Hypatia have survived! Specifically, her edition of tome III of the Almagest, as well as much of her commentary on the Arithmetics (saved for posterity by the Arabs). ii) Logic and mathematics weren't just the "language of the universe" for the neoplatonists; they were a way to approach the divine.

@PowerInfluencers-yx5nz Год назад

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@faithreyna Год назад

How can we find such works?

@royina2870 3 года назад

I rarely get emotional while watching any movie or TV show but the line: " dragged her from her carriage brutally murdered and dismembered her " got me upset and emotional. By doing this the monks literally snatched away knowledge and wisdom that she could provide us with if she were to be alive . Who knows what discoveries she would make in the coming years. Another example of how people's irrational beliefs can take away something valuable from the rest of humanity..

@zawwin1846 2 года назад

Its not irrational belief but push for power. They traded knowledge for power and their souls.

@ninjaked1265 Год назад

Her works survive today

@PowerInfluencers-yx5nz Год назад

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@Athanatoi Год назад

Humanity has conquer a vast amount of work pieces, in every field, and beyond imagination, during its small part of time-existence in the universe. And it is through the creation of civilization that all this become real. On the contrary, it is unthinkable to see humanity itself to proceed in a self-amputation by leaving ruins of its achievements to the next generations, who will lament about for ages. There is a greek word that is really difficult to translate because it doesn't exist in english : σοφόμωρος / sophomoros. It 's composed by two words: σοφός / sophos which means wise and μωρός / moros which means foolish. -To be wise and foolish at the same time. Unfortunately this is something that characterize man. A dramatic scene, taken from the Agora movie (December 2009) showing someone called Hypatia of Alexandria who is based in real life person (brilliant mathematician and philosopher renowned for her natural beauty, high intelligence and moral standards as well as for her rhetoric and teaching skills) among scholars of the Library of Alexandria (the largest and most famous library of the ancient times,collecting all the worlds knowledge ) and the siege of the Library of Alexandria by the Christian mob (one of the 3 main stories of the Librarys destruction), probably in the beginning of the 4th century. It is to be noticed that Hypatia died young in a dreadful manner when she was torn to pieces by monks in 415 in Alexandria (during the reign of Theodosius II).Famous for her excellence in philosophy (neoplatonist) and sciences (mathematician, astronomer), her brilliant mind, fine manners and exceptional beauty. Some count her as the last Head Librarian after Aristarchus.

@konstantinostoulou3754 5 лет назад

Sometimes, while watching videos of this kind, i wonder where humanity would have reached if it wasn't for all these primitive minds, holding back the bright.

@aryandivyanshu8324 5 лет назад

Konstantinos Toulou And how is present time any different ?

@hunterholden6261 5 лет назад

Konstantinos Toulou There are still those who think like these people today.

@darthgandalf9485 5 лет назад

Religion always slowed humanity down. Luckily its on a stable decline, maybe one day peace and science will prosper

@thesexybatman263 5 лет назад

We probably would have Despacito 3 already.

@sanyi2109 5 лет назад

@@darthgandalf9485 ye ye religion==baad science==good

@adorablepomme727 5 лет назад

I’m so curious to know how developed the world would have been if Alexandria’s knowledge, scholars and facilities survived. Who knows what Hypatia’s writings or those burnt library books consisted off, and how many new discoveries this world would behold if hypatias students and teachings thrived on.

@herodotus945 5 лет назад

The library was already declining in first century BC, it was gone before she was born and Caesar burned it.

@phineassss4901 4 года назад

@@herodotus945 I thought the alexandria was gathering more tomes during those times.

@jrhooman 4 года назад

Same with the ancient Nalanda university of the Indian Subcontinent

@morehero1 4 года назад

Not much, because in the middle ages you studied the old masters and didn't try to find anything new. Because they were so smart you just didn't need to look past them. It wasn't until the Renaissance that they explored unfamiliar territory and science actually started progressing.

@jesseberg3271 4 года назад

It's been speculated that the Romans could have developed a steam engine. The three Greek texts that explained the concepts necessary to do so were all housed in the Library of Alexandria, before the fall of the Western Roman Empire. That could, in theory, have pushed up the Industrial Revolution by over a thousand years.

@kayodeorunsolu5729 5 лет назад

Your animations are so amazing you never cease to amaze me

@nutbuster3862 5 лет назад

Kayode Orunsolu It's not a person, It's a team of people doing it.

@kayodeorunsolu5729 5 лет назад

@@nutbuster3862 ye I mean them as a whole

@yusufzia4322 5 лет назад

Bro what kurzgesagt in a nutshell thanks me later

@PowerInfluencers-yx5nz Год назад

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@mrx4022 4 года назад

I was generally sad at the ending - Hypatia's life was ended brutally by those who went against her ideals. I'm glad her story has survived to this day.

@PowerInfluencers-yx5nz Год назад

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@Athanatoi Год назад

@tamald7364 3 года назад

Read about her in Carl Sagan's Cosmos. The way Sagan described her murder and how it has affected the history of science and pursuit of knowledge for generation to follow has got me broken hearted.

@PowerInfluencers-yx5nz Год назад

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@nguyenthidieulan1841 10 месяцев назад

Same here. I only get to know her when I read Carl Sagan's Cosmos.

@CruelestChris 10 месяцев назад

Sagan's account is basically fiction.

@BelieviXComeOn 5 лет назад

these kinda videos make me want to time travel so badly, so I can go back and tell these figures what legacy they will have left behind ... and also hug them.

@canyounot2102 4 года назад

BelieviXComeOn // yess!! take me with you 😂

@perciousmatter7001 4 года назад

No if you do, you will change history.

@galaxy9310 4 года назад

@@perciousmatter7001 It will probably have its up and down.

@aminamelancon5640 4 года назад

Are you sure? You quickly would’ve gotten labeled as a witch followed by being tortured to death.

@BeanSprouts02 3 года назад

@@aminamelancon5640 😬😬 uhm-

@qwertyslapil6957 5 лет назад

Your silence will not protect you. Speak.

@aryandivyanshu8324 5 лет назад

Qwerty Slapil Sometimes people prefer not to be protected and love the peace of silence, There are a lot of silent souls.

@lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385 5 лет назад

Sources?

@imperialrealm6380 5 лет назад

Cannibalism effectively ends world hunger and over population preventing more pollution and less food for me. (This is a joke no need to take it seriously my loves :) )

@User-LS-n5m 5 лет назад

@Angry Justinian LMAO except its the alt right anti science idiots like trump and his supporters who are the ones trying to silence the pro science left with violence and threats

@lilym1797 5 лет назад

@Angry Justinian you mean argue against primitive, fascist beliefs 🙄

@janella9981 5 лет назад

I see Hypathia, I click. Damn man, she inspired me to pay a lot of attention to academics when I was younger.

@marywhite9398 5 лет назад

How? Is she your idol or something?

@janella9981 5 лет назад

@@marywhite9398 It was way back when I was in 4th grade, we had a math project we're supposed to look for mathematicians in history. I decided I wanted a "girl" mathematician (I was 9!) since the examples given to us were all men and Hypathia of Alexandria was the first to come out of the search engine. Although I didnt understand her work in detail back then but I knew they were pretty significant. Since then I looked up to her as a role model, not much as an idol but surely an inspiration.

@marywhite9398 5 лет назад

@@janella9981 That 's brilliant. You have such a cool role model. Sorry about my English, I'm a Vietnamese.

@marloyorkrodriguez9975 3 года назад

I mean could have been worse than me, what inspired me to do better academically are Jose Rizal and Otto von Bismarck, one’s a polymath who kickstarted the Philippine revolution, the other the one who created modern Germany.

@marloyorkrodriguez9975 3 года назад

N Gaming people are not without controversies, sure the creation of Germany led to WWI and II but it isn’t him who is ultimately responsible for them but rather leaders that came after him, he made Germany from the patchwork of petty Princedoms and small states because he believes all German states should unite at the cost of France and Austria who were back then Superpowers and were more than happy to keep the German states disunited.

@oferzilberman5049 4 года назад

Christian group: **Badly injures orestos** Orestos: **Tortures their leader to death** Christians: *IT SMELLS LIKE WITCH IN HERE*

@keepgettingbetter7155 3 года назад

A bunch of people who couldn't take the responsibility of their own actions.. Blaming an innocent soul:(

@FruityHachi 3 года назад

@@keepgettingbetter7155 classic narcissists

@nico_zip 3 года назад

@N Gaming what's the difference?

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@user-k4d-e59mo28oc 4 месяца назад

@@FruityHachi Sound like a prequel to the 1992 LA Riot.

@creative8d14 4 года назад

Women in 1600s do math Every one: *WITCH*

@omega0195 4 года назад

What's your point?

@yomommasofatthanoshadtosna3479 3 года назад

Everyone: It smell like witch in here

@PhuongDuong-tt5gf 3 года назад

not everyone, just christian!

@itzpurplesmixz184 3 года назад

@@PhuongDuong-tt5gf Which was basically everyone back then, considering that if you didn't believe in skydaddy, "WITCH!"

@joaomarcelo7708 3 года назад

@@itzpurplesmixz184 it seems that you forgot about the existence of the middle-eastern and asiatic world, both with a great predominance of religions like islamism, buddhism, hinduism, and other minorities. Also, these two worlds had more population than continental europe and its colonies had. Bringing all of this together, that's far from being "everyone" buddy

@Alkalus 5 лет назад

We will never forget the great Hypatia...

@yasminessam6113 5 лет назад

I live in Alexandria too, sometimes I imagine the scenes while walking in the streets

@kalanaherath3076 5 лет назад

Wow, I wish I was lucky enough to live in Alexandria, Istanbul or Rome

@Crick1952 5 лет назад

Alexandria, Jerusalem and Istanbul are probably my favorite cities in the world. I desperately want to visit them someday.

@muh753 5 лет назад

@@Crick1952 you would be astonished, in a bad way unfortunately.

@breathingsnow55 4 года назад

Istanbul is Constantinople and Constantinople is Greek

@Crispycream08 4 года назад

yasmin essam as much I like Alexandria, I wouldn’t want that to happen to me

@hsryu5569 5 лет назад

I guess math is quite literally the Universal Language

@aryandivyanshu8324 5 лет назад

Hyun Seok Ryu Indeed.

@pierrecurie 5 лет назад

ZFC

@sashac4577 5 лет назад

Yep, no matter what language you speak you can understand math

@NuthinImPortant 5 лет назад

Why do I get “The Alchemist” vibes from this quote?

@sashac4577 5 лет назад

@@NuthinImPortant I didnt write this quote from the book, but it's been a while since I have read it so maybe

@randomuser8574 3 года назад

“Ay, yo dude why do you kill people?” “ *Its my religion.* “

@ivanavelic5201 3 года назад

Its not the religion that is bad. It is people who use it for their personal interests or understand it wrong.

@ivonastrukar4715 3 года назад

@@ivanavelic5201 muhammad was a warlord,so year religion can be bad. I am atheist, but jesus was basically a mega hippy

@wherearethecrayons6533 3 года назад

@@ivonastrukar4715 He was not a warlord. He's message was peace and that is what he spread, unifying the various tribes in Arabia.

@genuinepessimist5185 5 лет назад

I love Hypatia. She was always an inspiration for me as a young girl.

@sreejasrivaram8250 5 лет назад

2:24 "Numbers were the sacred language of the universe." She was right though.

@letsomethingshine 4 года назад

@CrooK A witch! "do not suffer her to live!" *rollseyes* at how seriously Harry Potter is taken by some of these detrimental religious nutcases.

@whcolours9995 5 лет назад

Knowledge is illumination. Without illumination, we are stuck in the dark.

@fawadahmed9370 5 лет назад

Too bad the education system is itself flawed and outdated

@green0563 5 лет назад

Illuminati confirmed.

@BinatiSheth 5 лет назад

Thank you for speaking about Hypatia... Her tale brought me to tears when I read about it for the first time because history has shown again and again how the progressive thinkers had to either cower to or die from the intellectual cowardice of illiberal minds.

@harrysarso 5 лет назад

hope you your not trying to twist this to fit modern politics

@BinatiSheth 5 лет назад

@@harrysarso history repeats... people are protesting evolution being taught in schools, anti-vax/flat-earth is a thing and professors are being protested off campuses for teaching concepts, ideas, theories and basic math+science. I am not twisting anything. The only difference now is that public executions now happen on Twitter. The person doesn't die but their life just dissembles around them because they made a factual observation.

@harrysarso 5 лет назад

@@BinatiSheth hmm i agree. i assumed incorrectly that you wanted to apply the oppressed party to the other side which i would think is clearly not the case and so do you my apologies they oppressors call themselves the victims a lot these days

@BinatiSheth 5 лет назад

@@harrysarso Happens... People are just looking to victimize any narrative they could get their hands on which is just profoundly sad.

@VaaleeLol 4 года назад

My dad and I used to watch the movie Agora together, I really admire her and so does my dad.

@camiloiribarren1450 5 лет назад

I remember my 8th grade maths teacher telling us about her in our weekly mathematician story before lecture. It’s sad that she was taken out in such a brutal way

@lrm9298 5 лет назад

If I have a daughter I'm naming her Hypatia

@-unbreakeblecow488 5 лет назад

So she could get murdered brutally?

@SaraanSarangi 5 лет назад

@@-unbreakeblecow488 such a brutal soul u r . She can be greatest mathematicians of her time

@-unbreakeblecow488 5 лет назад

@@SaraanSarangi she would have been, but times have changed.

@-unbreakeblecow488 5 лет назад

@Anaïs H the person who commented that would want her daughter to be named Hypatia, i assume she wants to be like the Hypatia in the video, smart, wise, intelligent. But i assume too she would want the same fate since she wishes that. Winners got consequences. If she would want her daughter like Hypatia, she must end like her. Its destiny.

@-unbreakeblecow488 5 лет назад

@Suga Armani then ok

@okpc 5 лет назад

There's a movie on this: Agora (2009) directed by Alejandro Amenábar. 7.2 on IMDB

@benedettaiorio1193 5 лет назад

That movie was amazing, i loved it very much.

@frikativos 5 лет назад

I really liked the movie. It makes you think. I recommend it.

@piyushkumarsingh0694 5 лет назад

Loved that movie!

@deeRay7292 5 лет назад

it's a nice movie, BUT IT IS RIDICULOUSLY INACCURATE

@fatihc.3891 5 лет назад

i hated that movie XD

@shelbyinmon8654 5 лет назад

I love how you guys cover topics I've never heard of in such a great way and upload frequently but still have amazing quality

@hirushaadi 4 года назад

I felt like crying.. religious fanatics destroyed another genius beautiful saul.. where there is blind faith education vanished.

@124Nightwing 4 года назад

It’s always rare to hear of women that are intellectuals, but I was very surprised she was even able to teach at a school much less advise rulers. She left behind quite a legacy, and her death was an absolute tragedy.

@rosegold973 5 лет назад

For them to murder her like that 💔 heartbreaking

@fadhilideche2831 5 лет назад

A militia of monks.......... Yup, sounds about right.

@TylerSolvestri 5 лет назад

Literally Daesh

@KS-wy6ky 5 лет назад

When it formed in my home country, the government organized army to purge them.

@AlexLangerak 5 лет назад

@@KS-wy6ky tell us !

@ayeluru 5 лет назад

Yulia S Russia?

@cv4809 5 лет назад

@@KS-wy6ky Uganda?

@b_uppy 5 лет назад

This is the problem of many of the early churches where access to the biblical word was limited. Jesus never advocated attacking nonbelievers and in fact the Bible cautions against church leaders behaving badly and misleading their flocks, saying they will have to answer for it.

@Jobe-13 4 года назад

B uppy Yes!

@Jobe-13 4 года назад

Brittney Moore 👍

@nicholasstancel 4 года назад

Absolutely. 👍

@FreemanicParacusia 3 года назад

They became the Pharisees they so despised.

@nerthus4685 3 года назад

But they did have access to the Book of Matthew (love your enemies) etc. Your premise is false. You are excusing their behavior as ignorance and assuring yourself it cannot happen today. A Christian just shot up massage parlors. It very much happens today and all of us, no matter how intelligent and well meaning, can fall victim to fanaticism.

@vcrsalesman2606 4 года назад

According to Wikipedia’s ‘List of Common Misconceptions’, “The death of Greek philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria at the hands of a mob of Christian monks in 415 was mainly a result of her involvement in a bitter political feud between her close friend and student Orestes, the Roman prefect of Alexandria, and the bishop Cyril, not her religious views.[141][142] Her death also had nothing to do with the destruction of the Library of Alexandria,[143] which had likely already ceased to exist centuries before Hypatia was born.[143]” It was more due to politics as opposed to religion itself, and had nothin to due with the library which had been repeatedly destroyed centuries before.

@qrbital9861 4 года назад

In my Latin class we watched Agora, a movie about Hypatia

@bscorvin 5 лет назад

Ya’ll really pulled a 360 from ‘Math helps us understand the order in the universe’ to ‘brutally murdered and dismembered’.

@aureavita8653 4 года назад

Its a 180....

@devilsadvocate7474 4 года назад

You do realise what's a 360 huh ?

@meloetta1542 4 года назад

@@devilsadvocate7474 360 is a full circle. 180 is correct

@devilsadvocate7474 4 года назад

@@meloetta1542 um, yes...? In case it wasn't clear enough, that's what I -sarcastically- implied

@FruityHachi 3 года назад

@@aureavita8653 maybe if Hypatia and other scholars weren't killed, more people would be educated to know the difference between 360 and 180

@thelonesage3146 5 лет назад

Born in the wrong time period. A classic tragedy of those born ahead of thier time.*sigh*

@spiritbond8 5 лет назад

in what way is she "ahead of her time"? if anything she was born too late

@nicholasfire9258 5 лет назад

antari interesting insight. Please elaborate?

@chesterplemany 5 лет назад

Perhaps she wouldn't have been dismembered by radical monks if Hypatia had been born before the Roman Empire adopted it's new state religion.

@spiritbond8 5 лет назад

@@chesterplemany yeah, though the Empire making it official isn't THE defining factor, this new religion (and it's fanatics) had taken firm roots in the crescent by then

@nicholasfire9258 5 лет назад

Chester Plemany Makes total sense to me now. Don't even think her views would be widely accepted today either; especially with the metaphysical aspects of her teaching, which will most probably rejected by most mainstream scientists. And also, there are more Christians today then there was during that time period.

@samarjitchowdhury7160 5 лет назад

Thank you ted ed for doing a video on hypatia. Can you recommend some books about her from where i can learn more?

@TEDEd 5 лет назад

Hi Samarjit! So glad you enjoyed it! Every animation we publish has a "Dig Deeper" section on our website: ed.ted.com. There we provide supplemental reading on the topics covered. Here's the webpage for Hypatia: ed.ted.com/lessons/the-murder-of-ancient-alexandria-s-greatest-scholar-soraya-field-fiorio#digdeeper

@samarjitchowdhury7160 5 лет назад

@@TEDEd Thank you so much!!🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

@CruelestChris 10 месяцев назад

@@TEDEd You're recommending purveyor of historic fiction Catherine Nixey as a source? Practically everything she's ever said has been debunked.

@AussieRoos 3 месяца назад

A great movie about Hypatia is the 2009 “Agora” it’s a slow burn but visually stunning with a great cast and Rachel Weisz performance is brilliant 👏

@Snoopy0310 11 месяцев назад

Fanatics forgot: Love your neighbor as yourself - wrong way to treat

@kentheconquerer 5 лет назад

Never be a spectator of unfairness and stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence-- Hitchens the Great

@rahulsawant4608 4 года назад

What great understanding!

@historian252 10 месяцев назад

I believe you mean: Christopher Hitchens, the moron

@naveenraj2008eee 5 лет назад

Hi ted-ed Interesting topic.. Never knew about it... Thanks for the video and educating us..🙏👍😊

@TheAspiringCentenarian 5 лет назад

Me, too! The tragic ending made me cry ☹

@MandoDarling 5 лет назад

Loved this, I felt like learning a such a huge piece of history. Tragic that she didn't get to live out to her fullest potential. Also, the animation at 2:58 was so good!

@shibuvp2920 4 года назад

the Ted Ed narrators voices are so calming and soothing especially the music they play at the beginning of the video

@marinamir537 2 года назад

Centuries and centuries will pass, may Hypatia never be forgotten

@galleryg998 5 лет назад

Very interesting! I love these kind of videos, a harrowing yet meaningful tale from history that is still relevant today

@ahmedalifathallah9577 5 лет назад

Your animations are incredibly incredible, they're sensational ❤

@cmcui 5 лет назад

This so wonderful! A great way of learning things. Thank you TED-Ed ☺

@pv43 5 лет назад

(as always) amazing music and animation! the narration is easy to understand and clear, love it!

@alcd6333 3 года назад

According to an account I read, she was dragged from her chariot, skinned alive, and set on fire. Her murder and the subsequent destruction of the Library at Alexandria (the greatest library of the ancient world) signaled the start of the "Dark Ages." And the church later deified Cyril as a saint!

@saltycrackers4460 5 лет назад

I rlly love your videos because I always end up learning something!

@lexirothh 4 года назад

she is definitely someone to look up to, such a sad ending to her story though.

@natemup 4 года назад

Don't take a RU-vid video as fact, folks. Look up the history of this controversy; it's a lot more complicated than this clip makes it seem.

@maryrandall1587 4 года назад

I am writing an essay on her and did not know much surrounding her. this video really helped! thank you so much!

@timmyg44 3 года назад

They made up the details in order to tell a good story.

@nawalmridulya4255 5 лет назад

I wish Alexandria had survived...we would have so much of ancient knowledge today than is available!!!

@a.w.4708 3 года назад

Really? In which way? She didn't solely held all the philosophy of the time on her shoulders. Probably not even a lot of it. The video heavily mythologised her probably.

@user_8983 4 года назад

What a wonderful, intelligent, sweet soul with her life wasted due to society’s dark ways.

@rockstarrradio9540 5 лет назад

TED-Ed never fails to inspire and surprise....you guys doing a great job!

@nerd_alert927 5 лет назад

There is a 2009 movie called Agora where Rachel Weisz played Hypatia.

@herodotus945 5 лет назад

To biased.

@FreemanicParacusia 3 года назад

@@herodotus945 Indeed, it goes out of its way to make the other (non-Christian) religious groups in the city at the time look worse in order to create balance. I get that people reflexively want to jump to the defense of anyone who bears a label they identify with, but I really wish people would learn the history, however uncomfortable it may prove to be.

@matthewx7486 3 года назад

"Agora" is a film about our own modern society in historical form.

@LuckyGirl582 4 года назад

There's a movie I just saw about this called Agora. I cried at the end, watching the fall of intellectualism.... and here we are watching it again.

@GeoAlex71 5 лет назад

I am from Alexandria, and this the first time to know more about such scientists who lived centuries ago from now, Her end was truly sad, Thanks TED-ED.

@anon1ymous860 5 лет назад

According to Greek historians, Cyril didnt give that order. It was a group of fanatics that were led by someone called Peter that killed her out of envy. They used religion to hide their actions. But still, it's a shame we are not taught these things.

@michaelgorman4066 5 лет назад

This youtube channel got me interested in history

@tranlenamphuong6192 4 года назад

I’ve binged watching several videos about talented individuals. The common pattern I saw is that people got jealous because of their natural talents and either sabotage or kill them. Shame.

@min3089 5 лет назад

That's sad to know how she died in that way, imagine if she lives longer maybe we'll have more thinkers on that age and could potentially affect the future outcomes.

@ghiblikami5329 5 месяцев назад

Rachel Weisz portrayal of Hypatia in Agora was damn so perfect.

@DonJuanMarco1994 5 лет назад

Now I know why some people consider religion as destructive.

@jollygoodyo 5 лет назад

Yeah. Until you realise that Stalin and Castro had no religion. No wait.. You didn't know that did you.

@alexlestrange8662 5 лет назад

marcustya88 thought that was common knowledge, religious extremism and totalitarianism are both destructive

@pgjybbtqnrqehbkffbntwnhph2924 5 лет назад

abrahamic religions and its modern avatar religion of communism - are all destructive, eradicated civilizations

@vladimirjosh6575 5 лет назад

@Saint Knight EXACTLY

@user-sn6jv5dv9s 5 лет назад

Saint Knight So.. you’re implying communism failed because they had no religion. Sure, makes sense

@kalai_doscope 3 месяца назад

RIP Hypatia

@jo-annahicks3324 5 лет назад

I wish I had known her.... May we all stand up AGAINST injustice, not FOR it.

@typhoonofideas 5 лет назад

The storytelling is exceptional 😌. As usual, inspired by your videos.

@Temüjin_3162 2 года назад

" There are two religions in earth, which have distinct enmity against all other religions. These two are Christianity and Islam. They are not just satisfied with observing their own religions but are determined to destroy all other religions. That’s why the only way to make peace with them is to embrace their religions." - Rabindranath Tagore

@kt_rose461 5 лет назад

Im addicted to these TED Ed videos!😁❤

@kilsoph398 2 года назад

I love how my dad named my sister Hypatia of Alexandria as a call to this wonderful mathematician.

@user-xf6ty4iv9w Год назад

Imagine naming your child the name of some random mathematician.

@kilsoph398 Год назад

@@user-xf6ty4iv9w thats what i thought xD Although i wouldnt say Hypatia was random at all :P

@user-xf6ty4iv9w Год назад

@@kilsoph398 she is completely random, a good scientist for sure nothing more, the story of her death in this video is fake.

@h1nsicon Год назад

@@user-xf6ty4iv9w it isnt tho

@vanithasuresh3365 5 лет назад

Wow.... This is the first Ted Ed video that I have watched and I'm very intrigued

@khayegarais9643 4 года назад

I'd just finished watching Agora, and this came up. Her ending was so tragic.

@user-dd4zo5fo9g 5 месяцев назад

It breaks my heart, how many gems( scientists) we must have lost because of the stupidity of these authorities accusing them of "witchcraft"

@gutar5675 4 года назад

"ancient Alexandria" So, we just gonna act there aren't 20 cities with that name?

@roseannaruthlynnewyman3123 4 года назад

Senor Studly in this case the referring to Alexandria Egypt.

@whayes8084 3 года назад

Only one that matters.

@carsonm7292 3 года назад

"Alexandria" without qualifiers refers to the major one in Egypt.

@avatarofasura3971 Год назад

I am here because of the band Ghost and their song Kaiserion, which is about the murder of Hypatia

@apolloholmes208 5 лет назад

It's sad...a feeling that you wish it didn't end that way...☹️ We could have learned more from her. Thanks for another story TedEd...I learned something new today. ~~~~

@NavjotKaur-cy4jf 4 года назад

I love this channel connects us to the remarkable history. 💖.

@awesomeness5175 2 года назад

The video game Dishonored gives homage to Hypatia. It is cool that pop culture can give respect to people of such caliber.

@lotusgal313 4 года назад

Imagine all that mankind could have gained if the Library of Alexandria had survived 😢

@lbn6486 3 года назад

Imagine how much religion has held back science and progress in this world in the past . Where would we be now if it didn't?

@a.w.4708 3 года назад

Especially creating Universities, saving Greek scripts, developing medicine and geography was really bad for science.

@herrdoktorprofessoreldritc3416 5 лет назад

Did I hear that correctly: "spirit of inquisition" (4:38)? Shouldn't that be "spirit of inquiry" instead. The first term sounds like it should refer to Hypatia's oppressors, not to the inquiring attitude of the city.

@cate2994 5 лет назад

Herr Doktor Professor Eldritch Jaeger it can mean the act of inquiry. I think using inquiry is a better choice since we negatively associate it with the Spanish Inquisition and such.

@herrdoktorprofessoreldritc3416 5 лет назад

@@cate2994 Yup, inquisition has too negative a connotation.

@reinebautistamercado4286 5 лет назад

Inquisition means curiosity. Inquiry means the act of asking questions. Very different terms. They used the most accurate word.

@day6atemywallet78 4 года назад

I learn more from this channel and developed a liking to discover a lot of things than my entire 4 years of high school 🤦‍♀️

@sajinkurian4699 5 лет назад

I came to know about hypatia through a novel called ' Francis Ittikkora' ( Malayalam:Kerala, India) just loved the story. And I fell in love with her❤" Numbers are the sacred language of the universe " love you hypatia.

@user-gn5gd1cu7x 4 года назад

حتى لو محيت اغلب اكتشافاتها واختراعاتها فإن هيباتيا لم تمحى من عقولنا وقلوبنا اروع عالمة مرت على التاريخ بالنسبة الي لقد أثرت قصتها بي كثيرا مع الأسف فإن الاختلافات الدينية كانت السبب في موت امراء طاهرة نقية I love hypatia ❤❤❤❤

@jay-rock6627 5 лет назад

Great story but so sad always a misunderstanding with mankind smh.

@kyrstenestrella3082 3 года назад

People do be quick into blaming the individual's religion without knowing that people who also follows that religion also suffered...

@asstr0limn 4 года назад

this animation style is stunningly beautiful

@andresland182 4 года назад

In class, at some point I ALWAYS speak about Hypatia. Some people get curious about her and start investigating about her and go on to research on women in science. Thanks for this video.

@jesso.4971 5 лет назад

This should be lesson #1 in any math class. Ones curiosity is naturally sparked hearing numbers are the language of the universe. Even those who aren't mathematically inclined can see there's an art to mathematics this way.