Post by jennifergns on Nov 6, 2010 16:35:07 GMT -5
Agora (film) If you watched this film, please, share your opinions about it For example I think that this film showed well the chaotic political and religious struggle in declining Alexandria. Poor Hypatia was in the bad times, she was a women of hellenistic or classical roman age. "Agora" presents an interesting theory that she was able to prove heliocentrism, but she was lynched by fanatical Christians..In this point some people called the film antichristian. But in my opinion, it shows the bad truth, Christians destroyed temples, library in Serapeion and persecuted remained pagans. But for sake of clarification pagans persecuted Christians earlier (they treated Christians as a abnormal sect). Christians took revenge, but they supposedly proclaimed the love for other people, so they turned out to be hypocritical in some sense. But damaged alexandrian library - I deplore it the most (next to the fate of Hypatia). PS: Historical sources indicate that Hypatia was killed because she was friend of Orestes, Prefect of the metropolis. Bishop Cyril was a bitter enemy of Orestes and he eliminated Orestes' supporters in city - primarily Hypatia, because she was the most prominent pagan women in Alexandria.
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