Hypatia Movie - December 2009
Friday October 2, 2009
As Jone Lewis, About.com Guide to Women's History, notes in her blog, a movie about Hypatia is due to be released on December 18, 2009. Alejandro Amenabar directs the movie Agora (see: Agora for more about this word for a cultural center), which was filmed in Malta and stars
Rachel Weisz as Hypatia, the extraordinary 4th-5th century Neoplatonic philosopher of the city of Alexandria in Roman Egypt. The epic movie has Hypatia teaching inside the famous library there. An informative review from The Malta Independent Online: Agora premiere at Eden Cinemas: Clash of civilisations says the setting is fitting for crowd scenes since Malta is as much a crossroads of civilizations as was the Alexandria of Hypatia's day. The "clash of civilizations" is between the Christians of Alexandria and pagans, and then, later, Jews and others with limited power, like women, but the same review says it's overly simplistic to call the movie anti-Christian.
Read more about Hypatia:
Hypatia picture courtesy of Wikipedia.
Comments
Thanks for the heads up on the film. Too made we don’t know more about the woman’s philosophy. Hope the movie doesn’t show her martyrdom. Ugly!
Bill