Victims of religious intolerance

This is an ongoing work of Pagan Heroes and Martyrs. 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