In any case, it was Christians who murdered Hypatia and was a Christian bishop, Cyril, who directly or indirectly was behind this atrocity. Christians, of course, as Socrates and as common sense, did not deserve that name, especially when we go into detail about the savage execution:
"And by agreeing, men at the head of which was a certain Peter, who was reader lurk the woman, who was returning home from somewhere, and pulling the car is dragged into the church called Caesarion, taking the dress to kill her ceramic pieces ( ostrakois ) dismembered and its members being called Cenarion burned. "(Socrates Scholastic, Ecclesiastical History 7.15)
At the risk of being somewhat harder, my translation attempts to be as literal as possible. Socrates is a reliable source among other things because it is also Christian. But it belongs to another heterogeneous group of Christians illustrated that both then and now are shocked of the atrocities committed by fanatics who claim for themselves-and exclusively-the orthodoxy, the "correct doctrine", the single thought, crossing for heresy whole "other doctrine" - heterodoxy - any other divergent thinking.
Another detail Ecclesiastical History of Socrates reminds us of its reliability another contemporary author is more committed to his orthodoxy, Sozomen, felt compelled to "rewrite" suppressing the pessimistic nature and tone of complaint which read in phrases like the following to the description of lynching: "This issue was a major shame, not only under Cyril, but under the whole Alexandrian church. Surely nothing could be further from the spirit of Christianity that the consent of massacres, fights and affairs of this kind. "Sozomen replaces it with a providential view of history of the Church, where, as expected, are silenced so embarrassing events like the death of Hypatia.
But the detail that would fix today is the cruel coincidence that is the fact that the murder weapon was a lot of ostraca, these fragments of pottery in which the Athenians, since the time of Cleisthenes , wrote the name of one character who wanted to condemn to exile when, in the hill-Ceramic pottery district, northwest of the Acropolis healthy habit of practicing so-called ostracism.
Ostracon in which can be read "Themisthokles Neokleos" Themistocles the son of neoclassical, who was ostracized in 471 BC (Museum of Ancient Agora of Athens)
What appalling contrast to the case of Hypatia! Our "good Christians" Peter and his henchmen had a wild and literal practice ostracism and get rid of a person non grata : a ostracazos!
course apparently was not the first nor the last case, it suffered similar treatment at 361 George, the Arian bishop of the city, and in 457 Proterius, also bishop. Their bodies also picked up and burned. No doubt why in many ancient sources is commonplace to refer to the rebellious nature of the Alexandrians.
another version should also be interpreted, as do Edward Gibbon, R. Hoche or Carl Sagan, the term ostrakois in its most literal sense, such as oyster shells. Which is very reasonable if we think that the crime scene, the Caesarion, was located near the beach, next to Grand Harbour. There probably more abundant shells that pieces of ceramic tile, or as some translate. This is one of the things they do disagree with Gonzalo Fernandez, in his essay 1985 "The death of Hypatia, the widespread view according to which were the parabolans, henchmen of the bishop, who perpetrated the crime. In his opinion, were the sailors of Alexandria, mostly Christians, who had already participated in a revolt against Caracalla in the third century, against the rule and faithful to their bishop, it was they who chose the crime scene, the Caesarion, a church built over a temple dedicated to Augustus in his role as protector of seafarers.
Either way, either with pieces of ceramics, tiles or shells, the truth is that Peter and his minions such - Oysters, Pedrín ...! - perpetrated a savage and literal form of ostracism.
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