Episode 3: The Age of Persecution
This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama
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Theodosius and Theology in Alexandria
Despite the avalanchef intolerant laws under theodosius and his successors, we don't have much evidence that they were scrupulously enforced. In three 91, christians ransacked a temple, mockingly parading the lin sympols around the city. Pagans retaliated, and deadly violence broke out. The valuable library of alexandria was pillaged or destroyed. And near 20 years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited every spectator whose mind was not totally darkened by religious prejudice. Perhaps no other instance of deadly religious violence is more tragic than the fate of hypatia. According to tradition, one of hypateas students fell helplessly in love with
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