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“Wallpaper”

Subject:

Hypatia on Grey Marble

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by Khan Amore

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800 x 600 pixel Color JPEG

Suitable for SVGA Monitors

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Free Computer Desktop

“Wallpaper”

Subject:

Hypatia on Grey Marble

Background,

by Khan Amore

Image Data:

1024 x 768 pixel Color JPEG

Suitable for XGA Monitors

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Free Computer Desktop

“Wallpaper”

Subject:

Hypatia on Grey Marble

Background,

by Khan Amore

Image Data:

1280 x 800 pixel Color JPEG

Suitable for 16:10 Aspect-Ratio WXGA Monitors

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Free Computer Desktop

“Wallpaper”

Subject:

Hypatia on Grey Marble

Background,

by Khan Amore

Image Data:

1280 x 1024 pixel Color JPEG

Suitable for  SXGA Monitors

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This is a  1486 x 2176 pixel greyscale scan of Gasparo’s (?) signed sketch of Hypatia.  The sketch was included as an insert in Elbert Hubbard’s pamphlet, Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers, Volume 23, No. 4, published in October of 1908.  Although this artist’s conception was created many centuries after Hypatia’s death, it is the one most often used to represent this great (yet  always modest) woman.

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This is a 1810 x 2400 pixel greyscale scan of A. Seifert’s Portrait of Hypatia printed in 1882.  The artist, evidently inspired by Charles Kingsley’s novel, Hypatia (1853), offered this formal rendition of Hypatia’s portrait, nicely executed in the classical style.  No likenesses  of Hypatia exist which were executed by anyone who ever saw her, but this portrait does justice to her noble spirit.

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This is a 1605 x 2000 pixel color JPEG image designed to be inkjet-printed on #3279 Avery Iron-On Dark T-Shirt Transfer Material for creating one’s own  (black) Hypatia T-Shirts.

Motto: “History’s greatest woman was not a queen, but a teacher.”

Bottom Text: “HYPATIA / An Historical Science-Fiction Novel By Khan Amore / www.hypatia.org”  (Suggestion: Cut away the white edges of the print-out before ironing it on.)

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This is a 2400 x 3000 pixel color illustration of the gold coins thrown in the dance of the (soon-to-be-deflowered) virgins scene of Khan Amore’s novel, HYPATIA.  Pictured is the Gold Solidus minted in the reign of the Eastern Emperor, Valens (A.D. 364-378) — coins which were in circulation in Alexandria when Hypatia was a young girl.  Ancient coins offer a tangible and objective aperture into history.

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This is a 2400 x 3000 pixel color illustration of a Fairy Lamp with text not shown here.  Popular in the Elizabethan Era, when fairies were once again beloved, the ancient Fairy Lamp served to prevent fires and create a magical atmosphere.  This one, built and photographed by Khan Amore, was fashioned out of a Pyrex bowl, refractory clay, and multi-colored glass cabochons which act as colored lenses of just the right focal length to throw a spectacular array of sharply-focused inverted images of the candle flame to nearby surfaces.  Note the hyperbola of light cast upon the wall.

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This is a 3341 x 2089 pixel high-resolution color map of ancient Alexandria, Egypt, as it was  around the time of Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.) or roughly as it appeared around the time of Hypatia (A.D. 379? – 415).  Look back into time and see this most important of cities as it was long ago, and follow the momentous events which changed all of history.  Note: this map is a modified version of the one appearing in L. Sprague de Camp’s Great Cities of the Ancient World, pieced together by Khan Amore by incorporating information from many sources, both ancient and modern.  According to a press release dated 2004-05-09, it appears that the famed Alexandrian Museum has been unearthed(!), but no pictures or maps of its location are anywhere to be found, so we will continue to offer this map to scholars until new information requires it to be updated.

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This is a 3000 x 2112 pixel high-resolution color map of ancient Egypt, with the names of ancient cities superimposed in red lettering on a map of modern Egypt, with present-day borders and Arabic place-names, along with the ancient names of neighboring countries, such as Nubia.  Put together by Khan Amore, this map is a useful aid for those studying this cradle of civilization, lost in the sands of time….

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This is a 3000 x 1998 pixel high- resolution color map of ancient Hellas (i.e., all the lands of the Hellenes) with Ionian Greek, Dorian Greek, and other Greek colonies indicated with shadings of different colors.  Phoenician settlements are also shown, as are the ancient names of cities and countries.  Enhanced by Khan Amore, this old map is an invaluable aid for those who have always wondered exactly where places like Lydia, Thrace, Cyrene or Carthage were located.

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This is a 3207 x 2245 pixel high-resolution color Map of the Greek peninsula in ancient times.  Khan Amore’s enhancement of a map produced 100 years ago, this instructive chart shows Greece as it was 2500 years ago.  Look back into time and see where Attica was (where people spoke with legendary eloquence, in atticisms), or see where Laconia was (where people were laconic, and grudgingly doled out words with Spartan frugality.)

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This is a 1377 x 2233 pixel color JPEG of Charles William Mitchell’s 1885 painting of  clergyman Charles Kingsley’s vision of a blonde Hypatia, on the verge of converting to Christianity seconds before being butchered by the churchmen on the altar of their church.  Such a last-minute conversion may be a pleasing fantasy for clergymen, but is entirely unsupported by historical accounts.  The face  in this painting looks masculine enough to raise the question of whether a young male may not have been the one to pose for at least for parts of this non-contemporaneous artist’s con-ception of  Hypatia.

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This is a 1630 x 1567 pixel greyscale scan of R. Trache’s Illustration for the German edition of Charles Kingsley’s 1853 novel, HYPATIA.  Appearing at the beginning of chapter 8 of an old (1929?) translation by E. Preusschen, it depicts our divine philosopher scarcely able to “endure the sight, much less the contact of anything squalid and degraded” like the ragged beggar and his “villainous-looking” dog. Kingsley imagined Hypatia as a genteel young blonde Victorian Era woman of the sort he fancied.  Perhaps such projection is inevitable, since no physical description or contemporary likeness of her exists.

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This is a  1675 x 2701 pixel greyscale scan of R. Trache’s illustration for the German edition of Charles Kingsley’s 1853 novel, HYPATIA.  Appearing near the end of chapter 9, this evocative full-page illustration depicts Hypatia stargazing out of her balcony window, and the monk, Philammon, gazing at a different kind of heavenly body.  His intent was “honorable,” of course: he wanted to convert her to Christianity.  After all, Charles Kingsley was a clergyman ….

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This is a 1558 x 2404 pixel greyscale scan of R. Trache’s illustration for the German edition of Charles Kingsley’s 1853 novel, HYPATIA.  Appearing near the end of chapter 10, it depicts the monk, Philammon, as he “found himself on his knees” before Hypatia, begging forgiveness for having parroted slanderous epithets put in his mouth by the men of his Faith.

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This is a 1567 x 1648 pixel greyscale scan of R. Trache’s illustration for the German edition of Charles Kingsley’s 1853 novel, HYPATIA.  Appearing near the middle of chapter 13 (“The Bottom of the Abyss”) this illustration could almost serve as well to depict the scene in Khan Amore’s HYPATIA, in which the Serapeum and all its books are destroyed by the Christians.

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This is a 1585 x 1387 pixel greyscale scan of R. Trache’s illustration for the German edition of Charles Kingsley’s 1853 novel, HYPATIA.  Appearing near the beginning of chapter 20, it depicts the Prefect, Orestes, conferring with Hypatia after the conflict between the Christians and the Jews had culminated in street warfare.  The original (1929?) illustration was a mere 3 inches wide.

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This is a 1177 x 1779 pixel greyscale scan of R. Trache’s illustration for the German edition of Charles Kingsley’s 1853 novel, HYPATIA.  Appearing near the middle of chapter 22, it depicts a scene that Kingsley the clergyman described as a shameful pageant; but the illustration might also serve to depict the shameless procession to the orgiastic Eleusinian Mysteries Festival in Khan Amore’s decidedly heathen version of  HYPATIA.

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This is a 910 x 1300 pixel greyscale Self-Portrait of Khan Amore taken in July of 1978.  Like Bettie Page, the aging arch-heretic prefers to be remembered the way he was in his heyday.  “You mean you once looked like that?!” a group of young hair-stylists exclaimed when Khan asked them to re-create the coiffure in this photo.  “Yup.  See what happens to you if you stick around too long?” was his reply.  Time may be a great healer, but it sure is a lousy beautician.

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The Bill of Rights

This is a 2100 x 3000 pixel color wall-plaque of The First Ten Amendments to The Constitution of the United States of America, suitable for framing.  Download this document, make plenty of prints of it,  give them to everyone you know, and memorize these sacred words, for these words are not only the Highest Law, but they are the very basis of your freedom!  (Note that The First Amendment is the most important of them all, for it makes both government censorship and theocracy illegal!)  Know, exercise, and defend your rights, or they will be taken away!

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