Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals: 36 Great Women before 1400. Episode 12, Hypatia Dies for Intellectual Freedom Episode 12, Hypatia Dies for Intellectual Freedom.

Streaming video - 2019

Look at the brilliant and controversial scholar, Hypatia, as she lived, taught, and died in Alexandria in the middle of the 5th century. Her role as a public intellectual and philosopher would make her a rare example of respected female scholarship in a male-dominated world, and it would ultimately lead to her murder at the hands of an angry Christian mob.