Victims of religious intolerance
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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