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Filmography of Hypatia

Science and TechnologyWriting and Thought

1 title in the archive · first depicted 391

Livedc. 360 – 415

Alexandrian mathematician and Neoplatonist philosopher, murdered by a Christian mob in 415.

Shelfmark Vita XXXVIII

1
title
1 film
3.6/5
average rating
across 1 rated title
2h 7m
on screen
across 1 title

2 years of an approximately 55 year life depicted onscreen

Distinct years the archive depicts, against Hypatia’s approximate lifetime (c. 360 – 415) — 3.6% of it.

Depicted in

391415

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Destruction of the Serapeumpull it on the timeline

Event

The looting and ultimate end of the Temple of Serapis at Alexandria following the Roman Imperial transition toward Christianity as a state religion. The destruction of the temple and its library have often been described historically as symbolic of the wider conflict facing the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity between Christians and Pagans.

filed under 391

Runs throughLate Antiquity

The Box Office Ledger

What the films portraying Hypatia cost to make and took at the worldwide box office, as TMDB records them.

$70 million
in budgets
over 1 film with both sums
$39.5 million
at the box office
over 1 film with both sums
0.6×
of budget recouped
took less than it cost

US dollars as TMDB records them, not adjusted for inflation. 1 film of the 1 portraying them carries either sum.