"Called 'Hypatia' .. a towering abstract sculpture of a nude woman is cut from slabs of steel and shows the outline of a graceful woman with full breasts. It is named after a female mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher of ancient Alexandria. A placard on the statue notes that Hypatia was murdered by people 'who considered her one of the defenders of paganism and the Classic era, but she was actually a victim of fanatic ideologists."
The sculpture of Hypatia is in the "Library of Alexandria, a gleaming, modern facility that opened in 2002 a short distance from the site of its Ptolemaic predecessor, the most significant library of ancient times."
National Geographic, May 2012
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