New Film about Hypatia: Agora

topic posted Tue, September 22, 2009 - 5:47 AM by  Rocky
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Hypatia - new film 2009
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New Film coming out - "Agora"
(with Rachel Weisz as Hypatia) - Trailer
www.youtube.com/watch

This film could be significant because it describes the barbaric history of Christianity"

The synopsis:

"4th century AD Egypt under the Roman Empire...Violent religious upheaval in the streets of Alexandria spills over into the city's famous Library. Trapped inside its walls, the brilliant astronomer Hypatia and her disciples fight to save the wisdom of the Ancient World... Among them, the two men competing for her heart: the witty, privileged Orestes and Davus, Hypatia's young slave, who is torn between his secret love for her and the freedom he knows can be his if he chooses to join the unstoppable surge of the Christians."

The death of the beautiful Hypatia marked the end of the Greek Philosophy and Science. After her murder Europe entered the Dark Ages.

Pagan Destruction Chronology (314-870 C.E)

"415 A.D.:

In Alexandria, Egypt, the mob urged by the bishop Cyrillus, attacks a few days before the judaeo-christian Pascha (Pesach-Easter) and hacks to pieces the famous and beautiful philosopher Hypatia. Pieces of her body are paraded by the christian mob through the streets of Alexandria, and are finally burned together with her books in a place called Cynaron. On 30th August, new persecutions start against all the Pagan priests of North Africa, who end their lives either crucified or burned alive. "
www.youtube.com/watch

Official Web Site agorathemovie.com

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Rocky
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