Just saw a devastating movie called Agora. It outlines the death of Hypatia, and more significantly the death of the classic age. Hypatia was one of the most famous female philosophers and she got caught in the political muddle of Alexandria at a time when religion went haywire. This was set in 5th century Rome, so Christianity was on the rise and pagans were being slain everywhere. A Christian paramilitary sect took over the city and corrupted people by using the Bible to make men kill for the glory of God and to make women submissive. They forced Hypatia to get baptized but she refused. Just before her execution she finally defeated a bug that had been plaguing her for years, that being the truth of the heliocentric system.
It started out slow with some atrocious acting, but gradually I got sucked in deeper and deeper until a stellar climax made my heart burst. I went online and read the true stories of Hypatia and the movie did pretty well in portraying them. I find myself feeling sorry for her; she was a compassionate, forgiving ascetic living in a world of hate. I found it even more sad that she died without her heliocentric theory being documented, but that has to occur because there aren't any actual documents suggesting she'd proved it.
In the film there are some beautiful shots of Alexandria with its famous library and lighthouse. It makes me want to travel there even more, although with the current Arab revolutions going on I don't think it will be any time soon. I'm actually pretty psyched about these revolutions because it equates to the ousting of regimes that were put there decades ago by the globalizationist western elite.
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