The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Ancients
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Are You a Mathematician?
There were many ways of doing this. Terrorism is the closest way to see it. Single dazzling acts that would have shocked an empire and they had their effect. And then there were lesser acts of aggression. So you could just sort of, after the temple of cerepis was destroyed, people went through alexandria that night carving crosses and painting crosses on to things. You didn't have to t it. Absolutely. A couple ofe questions before we start wrapping up and talking about another, you know, shocking event that happens if we go into the fifth century. The remarkable figure called hypatia. She's somewhere between a mathematician and a philosopher. Shes in the way
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