ABSTRACT
The murder of Hypatia stands as one of the best known acts of civic violence in Late Antiquity and, as such, has been the subject of a number of modern studies. These have been concerned with, among other things, the causes of the violent episode, the implications of this violence for Alexandrian communal relationships, and the impact of the murder upon Alexandrian intellectual culture.1 In spite of the incomplete, and occasionally problematic, nature of the evidence for events leading up the murder, such studies have proven insightful.
