Victims of religious intolerance

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This is an ongoing work of victims of religious intolerance. Please add the name, date and short biographical sketch.

  • Anatolius, Governor of Anatolia, secret pagan, tortured, torn by wild animals, crucified, martryed under Emperor Tiberius II
  • Apollonius of Tyana (15- 100 C.E) Greek Pythagorean philosopher-god
  • Celsus
  • Damascius last scholarch of Athens, persecuted under Justianian. Wrote Life of Isidore
  • Diogenes of Oenoanda, (2nd century C.E.) Epicurean benefactor who built a portico engraved with Epicurus' teachings.
  • Elissaios, secret pagan, outwardly Jewish he was a secret pagan and teacher of Plethon
  • Hierocles of Alexandria, hero and martyr Pythagorean and NeoPlatonist, author of the Commentary on the Golden Verses on Pythagoras. Tortured
  • Hypatia (approx 350-415 C.E.) Mathematician and philosopher, murdered in Alexandria by a Christian crowd.
  • Georgius Gemistus, philosopher known as Plethon
  • Plotinus
  • Vettius Agorius Praetextus
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