Marisa Acocella s Big She-Bang Theory
With her latest book, the cartoonist and author brings history s forgotten women back into the picture
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Marisa Acocella was raised in a devout Catholic family. But one of the Bible’s main teachings seriously bugged her. “I always thought, how could a male God give birth to all this?” Acocella says, gesturing at … everything. “It never made sense to me. There had to be a God the Mother.”
The question nagged her all through her childhood in Roselle Park, New Jersey, her college years studying art at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, her early jobs in advertising in the Eighties. In 1992, while she was working on her first comic strip, “She,” for
When did Hypatia die?
Why is Hypatia famous?
Hypatia is famous for being the greatest mathematician and astronomer of her time, for being the leader of the Neoplatonist school of philosophy in Alexandria, for spectacularly overcoming the profound sexism of her society, and for suffering a violent death at the hands of ignorant zealots.
How did Hypatia die?
Hypatia was brutally murdered by a mob of Christian fanatics. They pulled her from her carriage on a street in Alexandria, dragged her to a church, stripped her naked, beat her to death and/or flayed her, tore off her limbs, and burned her remains.
One can do naught else but praise Social Media god Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan for posting a selfie from the Acropolis a few years ago, which they visited as part of their wedding anniversary celebrations.
At that time, the deity of online voyeurism gushed: “Celebrating 7 years of happy marriage at the temple for the goddess of wisdom.”
Presumably he meant the Parthenon and not the home of Anna Giannopoulou-Daskalaki, whose manifesto “My Greek Drama,” has absolutely no resemblance either in style of content, to Mein Kampf, even as we defer to her superior intellect in all things pertaining to Hellenic modernity.