Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria - Paperback

by Ki Longfellow (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Ki Longfellow is the author of the highly praised The Secret Magdalene. Under the name Pamela Longfellow she wrote China Blues and Chasing Women. Flow Down Like Silver, a novel of Hypatia of Alexandria is the second of a trilogy on the Divine Feminine. She is now working on the final book, The Woman Who Knew The All, the life of Mary Magdalene after the death of Jesus.