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The mob who killed Hypatia were a witch-burning (or witch-skinning, as it happened) mob, not a book-burning one; they thought she had hexed the prefect of Alexandria into not attending church.

Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX06:07, 8 February 2011

Right, none of the Christian community had anything to do with looting the library. Messy end, whatever the immediate motive.

Sprocket J Cogswell (talk)06:16, 8 February 2011

The Serapeum was destroyed in 391; Hypatia did not die until 415.

Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX06:22, 8 February 2011

So the witch-stoning faction had nothing to do with any prior heretical book-burning cell? Cool, they were astute revolutionaries then.

Sprocket J Cogswell (talk)06:33, 8 February 2011