Cindy Wilson/Oly of Temple of Hekate's Torch would like to recommend the movie Agora from famous film director Alejandro Amenabar and recently released in Europe. Cindy writes:
”The Spanish movie 'Agora' is released this week. There isn't an American company as yet to sponsor it in the US. I hope one will soon. I would very much like to see this history-based movie.”
The movie recounts the story of Hypatia, the last great philosopher and mathematician of the Hellenistic Age, who was brutally assassinated by a fanatic Christian mob in 415 a.D.
Agora was a public place of assembly in ancient Greek city-states. Read more>
Hypatia of Alexandria (350 and 370 – 415) was a Greek scholar from Alexandria in Egypt considered the first notable woman in mathematics, who also taught philosophy and astronomy… Read more>
“Unfortunately,” continues Cindy, “ the nay Sayers are already out in force: Civil Groups Protest
The comments seem to fear this movie as an attack upon their religious institution.
I have a different attitude...history should not be silenced simply to keep ignorance intact. The movie as I understand it is not an attack on any particular religious organization, but rather the mob mentality which used religion as the excuse and right to murder and destroy. Surely that message is worthy of repeating again so we can learn and not suffer through it again - regardless of religious preference.
Spread the word...let's see the movie Agora.”
Thank you Cindy, for sending this recommendation. I find Amenabar’s choice of a heroine, of the film cultural context, and of religion as the catalyst of the end of an era most interesting and a-propos.
Nadette

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