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Agora (Spanish: Ágora) is a 2009 English-language Spanish historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil. The biopic stars Rachel Weisz as Hypatia , a mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in late 4th-century Roman Egypt , who investigates the flaws of the geocentric Ptolemaic system and the ...
Oct 9, 2009 · A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.
- Alejandro Amenábar
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Sep 3, 2022 · Agora (Spanish: Ágora) is a 2009 English-language Spanish historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil.
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Jun 2, 2011 · Agora (2009) - Official Trailer. Following "Rome", comes the new historical drama "Agora" (meaning 'market'). Alexandria, 391: Hypatia teaches astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy.
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Jump ahead 20 years: Orestes, the city's prefect, has an uneasy peace with the Christians, led by Cyril. A group from the newly empowered Christians has now taken to enforce their cultural hegemony zealously; first they see the Jews as their obstacle, then nonbelievers.
In the 4th century A.D., astronomer and philosopher Hypatia (Rachel Weisz) teaches her scientific beliefs to a class of male students. Among them is lovestruck slave Davus (Max Minghella), the ...
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4th century A.D. 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...
