(August 25, 2022 at 10:35 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I would go with Hypatia, the librarian at the Library of Alexadria...apparently not so wise with regards to fire protection. (and sorry to all about my thoughtless comment above.)
I don't disagree that Hypatia was a smart woman.
But most of the library had been burned before she was born, in collateral damage from raids on the city by Julius Caesar. In her time, what remained of the books were housed in the Serapeum, a temple to Serapis with which Hypatia had no connection.
She was a Neoplatonist who thought that the goal of life is to reconnect the fallen soul with the transcendent One, so if she were posting here people would call her an idiot.
Sorry to be picky about history, but this misinformation gets repeated all the time.
