Hypatia of Alexandria was an amazing woman and the last librarian of the Great Alexandrian Library.
The contemporary Christian historiographer Socrates Scholasticus described her in his Ecclesiastical History:
"There was a woman at Alexandria named Hypatia, daughter of the philosopher Theon, who made such attainments in literature and science, as to far surpass all the philosophers of her own time. Having succeeded to the school of Plato and Plotinus, she explained the principles of philosophy to her auditors, many of whom came from a distance to receive her instructions. On account of the self-possession and ease of manner, which she had acquired in consequence of the cultivation of her mind, she not unfrequently appeared in public in presence of the magistrates. Neither did she feel abashed in going to an assembly of men. For all men on account of her extraordinary dignity and virtue admired her the more."
Believed to have been the reason for the strained relationship between the Imperial Prefect Orestes and the Bishop Cyril, Hypatia attracted the ire of a Christian population eager to see the two reconciled.
One day in March 415 CE,[24] during the season of Lent, her chariot was waylaid on her route home by a Christian mob, possibly Nitrian monks[24] led by a man identified only as "Peter".
She was stripped naked and dragged through the streets to the newly christianised Caesareum church and killed. Her was flayed with tiles, then her limbs burnt. Overman wrote this song nearly 2400 years later.
Lyrics
Hypatia
My Baby
My Woman
My Lady
My Sweetheart
My Darling
My Gal
You are smart with books, and your good looks
baby look out for Cyril
You taught me everything I can tell
Librarians are hot as hell
Hypatia
Your in big trouble now…
The Mob has come to take you and run
and burn your library down…
You stole my heart
They tore you apart
Hypatia
My Baby
My Gal
