Flow Down Like Silver Hypatia Of Alexandria

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780975925591
  • 20 augustus 2009
  • 310 pagina's
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Ki Longfellow, author of the acclaimed The Secret Magdalene, has now written the astonishing life of Hypatia, famed throughout the Mediterranean world, a beauty and a genius, yet for 17 centuries ignored by history. As the Roman Empire fights for its life and emerging Christianity fights for our souls, Hypatia is the last great voice of reason. A woman of sublime intelligence, Hypatia ranks above not only all women, but all men. Hypatia dazzled the world with her brilliance, was courted by men of every persuasion and was considered the leading philosopher and mathematician of her age...yet her mathematics, her inventions, the very story of her life in all its epic and dramatic intensity, has gone untold. A heart-breaking love story, an heroic struggle against intolerance, a tragedy and a triumph, Hypatia walks through these pages fully realized while all around her Egypt's Alexandria, the New York City of its day, strives to remain a beacon of light in a darkening world.

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    Last March I read The Secret Magdalene, and was completely overwhelmed by the sheer depth of the story, but also the beauty of her language, the solid composition of the book thrilled me. Having read her latest novel, Flow Down Like Silver, Hypatia of Alexandria, I know that The Secret Magdalene was not a one-time high. Ki Longfellow contains gold and I can only hope that she's given the perseverance and the time to share more of her artistic wealth with us.

    The book relates the story of the last 24 years of the 4th-5th century scientist Hypatia of Alexandria, as told through the eyes of different characters. Her father chooses Hypatia, the middle one of three daughters, to follow in his footsteps as a teacher of mathematics, philosophy, science, music and so on. The novel starts in the year 391. In Roman Egypt the `new' religion, christianity, is on the rise. These christians are raiding the libraries of the city and are burning books that in their eyes are superfluous. More than once does Hypatia question her contribution in life or her being: `I am only what I am, a thing of the mind (...) questioning constantly all it sees and all it hears. I believe nothing, not even what my senses assure me is so, for fear that by holding to one belief I lose the possibility of another.' (93

    Hypatia has hidden many of the forbidden books, that she saved from the raiding and arsonist christians, in a cave in the desert. Among them are the Gnostic gospels that had lain hidden under an old temple for hundreds of years. This find, with the gospel of Mary Magdalene among them, prompts Hypatia to write her own path to glory and to finally undergoes the alchemical process of death and being reborn herself. `I am snatched away from me and suddenly I fall out of myself, and then I fall into myself - completely.' (282)

    To all you questioners, searchers and lovers of beauty in words out there: please, please, read Flow down Like Silver, Hypatia of Alexandria!

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