Philammon, a young monk from a desert monastery, goes to Alexandria in the fifth century and falls under the spell of Hypatia, the pagan philosopher who lectures there. Around them move Goths, the Jewish sorceress Miriam, the patriarch Cyril’s monks and the Roman prefect Orestes, in a city torn between Church and the old learning.
Kingsley’s vivid, argumentative portrait of a dying classical world, with the religious prejudices of an 1853 Anglican. Download the free EPUB.