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Hypatia taught philosophy in Alexandria, until a mob killed her for it

Hypatia led the Neoplatonist school in Alexandria, teaching mathematics and philosophy to students of every religion. In 415 CE a Christian mob dragged her from her chariot and killed her amid a political feud with the city's bishop -- a death often marked as the symbolic end of classical philosophy in Alexandria.

— Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History — 5th century CE account

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