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Hypatia of Alexandria

A Play in Three Acts

by Gerald Everett Jones

This stage play about the famous Hellenistic teacher Hypatia tells a story of civil unrest in fifth century Alexandria, Egypt. This doesn't sound like such an old story when you consider it's filled with riots, political corruption, racial persecution, the decline of the military establishment, economic depression, a perceived decline in moral values, and vicious religious politics.

You might say it's a cautionary tale for our times.

Hypatia was the last of a long line of philosophers to head the Library of Alexandria. She spoke out against the persecution of the city's Jews, became romantically linked with the powerful prefect of Rome, and ended up being hacked to death by a mob of Christian fanatics.

And somewhere, sometime -- no one can really prove when -- someone destroyed everything she ever wrote and most of of the other books she taught.

The playwright is a member of The Dramatists Guild, Inc.

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