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Hypatia
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Hypatia

c. 360–415

Alexandrian mathematician and philosopher; a renowned teacher.

Hypatia (c. 360–415) endures among the great of Europe & Mediterranean. Alexandrian mathematician and philosopher; a renowned teacher.

Across the classical age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost.

Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.

Submitted with honor.

Submitted by the Honored Ancestors Editorial Committee.