The Mean Streets of Old Alexandria - Redux

By sundry means was TOF made aware of this article on Hypatia of Alexandria posted on something called RationalWiki [sic].  As with all things internettingly wiki, the sourcing is rather scattergun with a marked preference for tertiary sources.  Previously here there was a multi-part series on the life and context of Hypatia, beginning here.

[sic] rational ∩ wiki = Ø by the nature of wikish procedure.  The results of desultory serial committee overrulings is not prima facie "rational." At best, it may be group-think. 
But let us see what counts for reference among the rationals.
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