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I wore my Winklepickers to college today and got a fair few compliments
My life drawing tutor said "You're looking very Pop art today, it's good to see art students looking like art students." and my 3D tutor said she had and I quote "Shoe envy."
But now my feet are hurting
On to my pseudo article on Hypatia
I was at the photocopier at college today and there's a shelf of art magazines next to it and as I was stood there waiting I saw this newspaper article that someone had cut out on the shelf. Being the inquisitive soul that I am I read it finding it very interesting. It was just a small article on the inequality of mathematical history. How everybody has heard of Pythagoras but not of Hypatia even though they both achieved works of note. This is about Hypatia, the article stated that despite her work being held as a standard for mathematics she isn't known by the general populace. The thing however that caught my attention was the last few lines. The lines were: "She was murdered by a Christian mob who stripped her naked, peeled away her flesh with broken pottery and ripped apart her limbs." This horrified me.
Without me knowing I had been on the edge of learning about Hypatia. I had seen a trailer for a movie called "Agora" that involved Rachel Weisz and thought it looked good and a tad artsy. Now I find out that "Agora" is based on the life of Hypatia. I entered her name into google and looked at her Wikipedia page because I wanted to know why they killed her the way they did. It turns out that in Alexandria at the time Christianity was slowly shadowing the Roman religion. Orestes, the Imperial Prefect and Cyril the Pope of Alexandria had fallen out and the majority believed that it was Hypatia that had come between the two. The reason however was that Cyril didn't want Alexandria to continue dwelling in the sin of Paganism. Her chariot was waylaid on her way home one night and she was thus murdered. There are two accounts of her murder on her Wikipedia page, one from the time around her death and another from two centuries later. The second was clearly written by a Christian as it starts off by calling her a pagan and continuing to say she "...beguiled many people through Satanic wiles." The account also fails to mention the horrific way that the mob murdered her.
Another thing is that when the film "Agora" was released in 2009, the Religious Anti-Defamation Observatory protested against the film for supposedly "promoting the hatred of Christians and reinforcing false cliches about the Catholic Church." I believe people are allowed to have there own beliefs but when the church blatantly lies about something it sullies what could be a good thing. The movie did not make anything up it is history. I personally do not think Jesus would have wanted those men to kill a defenceless woman in his name, no matter the supposed reason.
:D Ok rant/article over
My life drawing tutor said "You're looking very Pop art today, it's good to see art students looking like art students." and my 3D tutor said she had and I quote "Shoe envy."
But now my feet are hurting
On to my pseudo article on Hypatia
I was at the photocopier at college today and there's a shelf of art magazines next to it and as I was stood there waiting I saw this newspaper article that someone had cut out on the shelf. Being the inquisitive soul that I am I read it finding it very interesting. It was just a small article on the inequality of mathematical history. How everybody has heard of Pythagoras but not of Hypatia even though they both achieved works of note. This is about Hypatia, the article stated that despite her work being held as a standard for mathematics she isn't known by the general populace. The thing however that caught my attention was the last few lines. The lines were: "She was murdered by a Christian mob who stripped her naked, peeled away her flesh with broken pottery and ripped apart her limbs." This horrified me.
Without me knowing I had been on the edge of learning about Hypatia. I had seen a trailer for a movie called "Agora" that involved Rachel Weisz and thought it looked good and a tad artsy. Now I find out that "Agora" is based on the life of Hypatia. I entered her name into google and looked at her Wikipedia page because I wanted to know why they killed her the way they did. It turns out that in Alexandria at the time Christianity was slowly shadowing the Roman religion. Orestes, the Imperial Prefect and Cyril the Pope of Alexandria had fallen out and the majority believed that it was Hypatia that had come between the two. The reason however was that Cyril didn't want Alexandria to continue dwelling in the sin of Paganism. Her chariot was waylaid on her way home one night and she was thus murdered. There are two accounts of her murder on her Wikipedia page, one from the time around her death and another from two centuries later. The second was clearly written by a Christian as it starts off by calling her a pagan and continuing to say she "...beguiled many people through Satanic wiles." The account also fails to mention the horrific way that the mob murdered her.
Another thing is that when the film "Agora" was released in 2009, the Religious Anti-Defamation Observatory protested against the film for supposedly "promoting the hatred of Christians and reinforcing false cliches about the Catholic Church." I believe people are allowed to have there own beliefs but when the church blatantly lies about something it sullies what could be a good thing. The movie did not make anything up it is history. I personally do not think Jesus would have wanted those men to kill a defenceless woman in his name, no matter the supposed reason.
:D Ok rant/article over