- Paperback: 284 pages
- Publisher: Infinity Publishing (PA) (July 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0741428946
- ISBN-13: 978-0741428943
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #843,169 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Did Hypatia have the power to bring down the Christian Church? A corrupt Fifth Century Bishop thought so and ordered her savage bone chilling death. Later, he was made a saint.
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Lots of fiction - little history, Nov 29 2007
By looking-for-truth - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Holy Murder: The Death of Hypatia of Alexandria (Paperback)
Be careful with this - the reader should know that this is fiction, though the description does not mention it. I was expecting a historical study of this amazing woman - this is a fictionalized and romanticized "historical" novel with no bibliography, index or footnotes. I cannot recommend it for someone interested in the real story of Hypatia.
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Hardly Historical, Dec 26 2007
By Libris Vermis - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Holy Murder: The Death of Hypatia of Alexandria (Paperback)
With a 15-year interest in Hypatia & Alexandria, I have read or skimmed most of the literature for general readers, and a little of the specialist literature (such as the 10th-century Suda, parts of which are available on-line). I got "Holy Murder" from my local library. A quick skim was enough.With that preamble, let the reader beware: Holy Murder belongs in the Harlequin Romance section. Historical details are shaky, and the novelistic inventions are gratuitous - not consonant with what little we know of 5th-century Alexandria. If you're going to invent stuff, is it too much to ask that you do a little historical research before hand? Is it too much to ask that you at least be aware of Hypatia's proudest claim - life-long celibacy? Ramos - scribe & lover; good Gawd.
Readers wishing to know the historical Hypatia are encouraged first to spend some quality time w/ Maria Dzielka's "Hypatia of Alexandria." It's a bit dry, as all patient, scholarly works must be, but Patient Reader's efforts will be well rewarded. Among a great many things, the reader will discover Dzielka's strong case that Hypatia's murder was political, not religious, cutting the ground out, even, from under Kramer's title.
The only other fact-based work for the general reader that I'm aware of is Michael Deakin's "Hypatia - Mathematician & Martyr." His book overlaps Dzielka's a bit, but he also supplements it by providing a thorough analysis of Hypatia's mathematical contributions, which were significant (Mathophobes alert: It's not all that difficult). Before publishing his book, Deakin also maintained a web page of all the contemporary & quasi-contemporary sources (such as the Suda)on Hypatia. Would you be surprised that they can be listed on a single sheet? That's how little we really know - not so much as a scrap from Hypatia's own hand; almost all from her adoring pupil, Synesius of Cyrene (BUT: both Dzielska & Deakin make a good case that modern editions of Euclid's "Elements" are all direct descendents of Hypatia's edition, so her most important work lives on, in spite of all the romantic nonsense that clings barnacle-like to her name).
Call me a prematurely old fogey (all of 55!), but I find facts and history so much more interesting than romance.
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Amateurish Triumph, Sep 13 2010
By Mr. N. Scott "Opium Eater" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Holy Murder: The Death of Hypatia of Alexandria (Paperback)
A powerful and disturbing story, much of which is vividly and powerfully told. This is a story well worth telling and here its shocking import is strongly shown. It's an absorbing read. Yes, it is very amateurish and needs a thorough editing. A lot of it reads like the product of a talented but raw student on a creative writing course. There are spelling errors, grammatical faults, wrong words used. Often, it reads like a rather rocky translation from another language. But I can't help loving its naive vivacity. Whatever you think of the fact that Hypatia is given a lover here, in the person of the fictional scribe Ramas, the depiction of the assassination is done very well indeed and is genuinely shocking. Though Bishop Cyril's nastiness assumes cartoonish proportions, there is an atmosphere of beauty and terror combined that keeps you reading. It really ought to have been worked on much more, but it's enjoyable nonetheless.
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