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A Stage Play in Three Acts
Cast of Characters
NAOMI An old Jewish woman, reputed
to be a sorceress, who taught Hypatia the forbidden art of alchemy
HYPATIA A beautiful woman in her forties, head of the philosophical
academy in Alexandria, which was associated with the Temple of Sarapis and its
world-famous library
CYRIL Archbishop of Alexandria, a ruthless man in his fifties, who
is locked in a power struggle with Orestes
TITUS A sincere and intense man in his late twenties, Jewish by
birth, first seen in the play as a monk and personal scribe to Cyril, but actually a
lieutenant in the
Roman army and an undercover spy for Orestes
ORESTES Physically striking Prefect of Egypt, a man in his late
thirties, an ambitious military politician with a conscience
THEON Hypatia's father, an absent-minded man in his seventies, once
a famous scholar, whose brilliant daughter is suspected to have done much of his work
LYDIA Hypatia's servant, an attractive and energetic woman in her
mid-twenties, who because of her intelligence and willingness to learn has received an
education beyond her station in life
PETER Also called Peter the Reader, is Cyril's loyal strategist and
henchman, as well as abbot of the monastery
AMMONIUS A large and powerful man of about forty, had been a Roman
foot-soldier and then took the holy orders, an earnest type, without much education
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Gerald Everett Jones
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