Hypatia was the daughter of the Museum's last great
mathematician Theon, officially head of the Neoplatonist school.
She was a philosopher and astronomer, superior to her father and so
considered the intellectual head of the Neoplatonist school.
The Christians] waylaid her returning home, and dragging her
from her carriage, they took her to the church called
Caesareum, where they completely stripped her, and then murdered
her with tiles [ostrakois, literally oystershells]. After
tearing her body in pieces, they took her mangled limbs to a place
called Cinaron, and there burnt them.