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Hypatia of Alexandria
Rachel Weisz as HypatiaAgora, a film by Alejandro Amenábar and staring Rachel Weisz as Hypatia, is an historical drama about Hypatia of Alexandria around 390 AD in Alexandria Egypt and her losing battle with early Christianity. It will be released in October.
Hypatia of Alexandria
Agora
by
Alejandro Amenábar
2009
by
Alejandro Amenábar
2009
5 comments:
A recommended book:
Publication Data: Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr, by Michael A. B. Deakin. Prometheus Books, 2007. Hardcover, 231 pages, $28.00. ISBN: 9781591025207.
http://www.maa.org/reviews/hypatiadeakin.html
The reviewer wrote...
"In the introduction to this book, Michael Deakin expresses surprise that there have been so few full-length treatments of the life and work of Hypatia, and that, in particular, most such accounts have had very little to say about her mathematics."
Maybe things will change as they have with Giordano Bruno.
As with Bruno, missing historical records have made it hard to always know fact from fiction.
Plus both Bruno and Hypatia have been used by various groups to further their agendas, muddying th waters of historical truth as usual.
I first became familiar with Hypatia from Carl Sagan's Cosmos series, but even that had its biases and flaws. I wonder how much better the film will be?
I have read three reviews and not all have been favorable...a modern day "sword and sandal" film. But then, what do critics know.
Giordano Bruno--visionary?...a new book
http://philosophyofscienceportal.blogspot.com/2008/09/giordano-bruno-visionarya-new-book.html
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