A film for you! (and for me!!!!) http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/03/blood_on_the_scrolls_alexandri.html
Agora stars our own Rachel Weisz as the fourth-century AD Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer and editor Hypatia. A famous scholar in a city of scholars, she was caught up in the violent religious tensions that prevailed, and blamed by the rising Christian movement for poor relations between the Alexandrian bishop and the imperial Roman prefect. In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon described her death thus, "On a fatal day, in the holy season of Lent, Hypatia was torn from her chariot, stripped naked, dragged to the church and inhumanly butchered by the hands of Peter the Reader and a troop of savage and merciless fanatics: her flesh was scraped from her bones with sharp oyster shells and her quivering limbs were delivered to the flames."
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A film for you! (and for me!!!!)
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/03/blood_on_the_scrolls_alexandri.html
Agora stars our own Rachel Weisz as the fourth-century AD Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer and editor Hypatia. A famous scholar in a city of scholars, she was caught up in the violent religious tensions that prevailed, and blamed by the rising Christian movement for poor relations between the Alexandrian bishop and the imperial Roman prefect. In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon described her death thus, "On a fatal day, in the holy season of Lent, Hypatia was torn from her chariot, stripped naked, dragged to the church and inhumanly butchered by the hands of Peter the Reader and a troop of savage and merciless fanatics: her flesh was scraped from her bones with sharp oyster shells and her quivering limbs were delivered to the flames."