Hypatia

EGYPT (ROMAN) · 4TH CENTURY CE

LVL 04 ◈ Oracle of Light 4 Teachings

85 / 85

+28 per encounter

Temperament

“Lecturing warmth. Loves the question more than the student admits.”

Specialties

astronomy neoplatonism public reason geometry

Attributes

Wisdom

9/10

Courage

8/10

Clarity

9/10

Discipline

7/10

Compassion

6/10

Insight

8/10

Drop · Relic

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Astrolabe Fragment A brass sliver that charts stars and the cost of truth.

Biography

Alexandrian mathematician and Neoplatonist who taught astronomy from a public chair. She was murdered defending the right to reason.

Teaching 01

“The stars ask nothing of us except that we look up long enough to be changed.”

— Attributed · Greek

Teaching 02

“Fable should be taught as fable, myth as myth, and miracles as poetic fancies.”

— Attributed · Greek

Teaching 03

“Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”

— Attributed · Greek

Teaching 04

“A teaching will arrive when the student is ready.”

— Hypatia