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How was Hypatia of Alexandria killed by the mob in March 415 AD?
Socrates Scholasticus, writing within a generation, records that a Christian mob led by a man named Peter the Reader pulled Hypatia from her carriage, dragged her to the Caesareum church, and killed her with *ostrakois* — a Greek word that means either roof tiles or oyster shells. She was the most famous philosopher in the eastern Mediterranean and the head of the Alexandrian Neoplatonic school.
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The Mathematician the Mob Came For Hypatia of Alexandria was the most famous philosopher in the eastern Mediterranean. In March 415 a crowd dragged her from her carriage and killed her with roof tiles.
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