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''Ágora'' (written and directed by your favorite LGBT Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar) is 2009 historical drama film portraying the life of the female philosopher Hypatia (played by Creator/RachelWeisz), as well as her slave Davus (Creator/MaxMinghella) and pupil Orestes (Creator/OscarIsaac), from the destruction of Alexandria to her death at the hands of fanatical Christians during the reign of Emperor UsefulNotes/TheodosiusI. It takes a number of liberties with the history it's trying to depict, so take it with a grain of salt.
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''Ágora'' (written and directed by your favorite LGBT queer Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar) is 2009 historical drama film portraying the life of the female philosopher Hypatia (played by Creator/RachelWeisz), as well as her slave Davus (Creator/MaxMinghella) and pupil Orestes (Creator/OscarIsaac), from the destruction of Alexandria to her death at the hands of fanatical Christians during the reign of Emperor UsefulNotes/TheodosiusI. UsefulNotes/TheodosiusI.
It takes a number of liberties with the history it's trying to depict, so take it with a grain of salt.
It takes a number of liberties with the history it's trying to depict, so take it with a grain of salt.
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* HistoricalRelationshipOverhaul: The real Hypatia was apparently married (presumably in a Neoplatonist, celibate way) to another philosopher named Isidorus. This character is AdaptedOut of the film, whose version of Hypatia claims to have never loved romantically.
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''Ágora'' (written and directed by your favorite LGBT Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar) is 2009 historical drama film portraying the life of the female philosopher Hypatia (played by Creator/RachelWeisz), as well as her slave Davus (Creator/MaxMinghella) and pupil Orestes (Creator/OscarIsaac), from the destruction of Alexandria to her death at the hands of fanatical Christians. It takes a number of liberties with the history it's trying to depict, so take it with a grain of salt.
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''Ágora'' (written and directed by your favorite LGBT Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar) is 2009 historical drama film portraying the life of the female philosopher Hypatia (played by Creator/RachelWeisz), as well as her slave Davus (Creator/MaxMinghella) and pupil Orestes (Creator/OscarIsaac), from the destruction of Alexandria to her death at the hands of fanatical Christians.Christians during the reign of Emperor UsefulNotes/TheodosiusI. It takes a number of liberties with the history it's trying to depict, so take it with a grain of salt.
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* TheHeretic: Hypatia, after Paganism became illegal. Considering she was a principled agnostic ("You do not question what you believe; you cannot. I ''must''."), she was technically a heretic from the beginning.
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* TheHeretic: Hypatia, after Paganism became illegal.illegal, though in a loose sense of the word given that she refuses to convert (in order to be officially a heretic, you must be a Christian first). Considering she was a principled agnostic ("You do not question what you believe; you cannot. I ''must''."), she was technically a heretic an enemy of the Christians from the beginning.
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** Subverted. The Pagans in the film ''are'' portrayed as more tolerant towards other religions than Christians, as they only organize an attack on those in response to a public assault on a Pagan priest, and they also seem to be friendly or at least indifferent to Alexandria's Jewish population, while the Christians are openly hostile to Jews. However, once the provocation happens, the pagans become just as violent and bloodthirsty as their opponents, and in the ensuing battle there is no moral distinction between a mob and the other.
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** Subverted. The Pagans in the film ''are'' portrayed as more tolerant towards other religions than Christians, as they only organize an attack on those in response to a public assault on a Pagan priest, and they also seem to be friendly or at least indifferent to Alexandria's Jewish population, while the Christians are openly hostile to Jews. However, once the provocation happens, the pagans Pagans become just as violent and bloodthirsty as their opponents, and in the ensuing battle there is no moral distinction between a mob and the other.
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* HotTeacher: Hypatia fits the description of this trope most closely, with her student Orestes and her slave/research assistant Davus falling in love/lust with her. (You might think she'd be listed as a HotLibrarian or HotScientist, but she doesn't really fit those tropes as defined on this wiki.)
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* HotTeacher: Hypatia fits the description of this trope most closely, with her student Orestes and her slave/research assistant Davus falling in love/lust with her. (You might think she'd be listed as a HotLibrarian or HotScientist, but she doesn't really fit those tropes as defined on this wiki.)
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* EasyEvangelism: How Davus the slave became Christian, as well as many other people in Alexandria do. This is well explained through the varied sights of Christian sects preaching against slavery and feeding poor people, which naturally gives them a boost in popularity at a social level.
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* EasyEvangelism: How Davus the slave became becomes Christian, as well as many other people in Alexandria do. Alexandria. This is well explained through the varied sights scenes of Christian sects preaching against slavery and feeding poor people, which naturally gives them a boost in popularity at a social level.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The Jews in the film only stone the Christians in rightful retaliation for a similarly violent attack. In historical chronicles, while the Jews weren't exactly at peace with the Christians, there was no Christian ambush. Instead, the Jews attacked them out of annoyance at Cyril's speeches against them, something that was seen as a DisproportionateRetribution and only fueled the Christian's public stance.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The Jews in the film only stone the Christians in rightful retaliation for a similarly violent attack. In historical chronicles, while the Jews weren't exactly at peace with the Christians, there was no Christian ambush. Instead, the Jews attacked them out because of annoyance at Cyril's speeches against them, something that was seen as a DisproportionateRetribution and only fueled the Christian's Christians' public stance.
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That's the opposite of this trope.
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: The film contains [[http://armariummagnus.blogspot.com/2009/05/agora-and-hypatia-hollywood-strikes.html a number of myths]] about Hypatia and the Library of Alexandria that are so common in pop-culture that the real history sounds implausible to many people. To what degree the movie is guilty of spreading historical myths is, however, somewhat [[http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2010/08/agora-review.html open to debate]].
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Not So Different has been renamed, and it needs to be dewicked/moved
* MirroringFactions:
** Subverted. The Pagans in the film ''are'' portrayed as more tolerant towards other religions than Christians, as they only organize an attack on those in response to a public assault on a Pagan priest, and they also seem to be friendly or at least indifferent to Alexandria's Jewish population, while the Christians are openly hostile to Jews. However, once the provocation happens, the pagans become just as violent and bloodthirsty as their opponents, and in the ensuing battle there is no moral distinction between a mob and the other.
** In an unrelated latter, the Pagan prayers said to Serapis are strikingly similar to some attributes given to God in Christianity, which might have been deliberately written in to underline this trope.
** Subverted. The Pagans in the film ''are'' portrayed as more tolerant towards other religions than Christians, as they only organize an attack on those in response to a public assault on a Pagan priest, and they also seem to be friendly or at least indifferent to Alexandria's Jewish population, while the Christians are openly hostile to Jews. However, once the provocation happens, the pagans become just as violent and bloodthirsty as their opponents, and in the ensuing battle there is no moral distinction between a mob and the other.
** In an unrelated latter, the Pagan prayers said to Serapis are strikingly similar to some attributes given to God in Christianity, which might have been deliberately written in to underline this trope.
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* NotSoDifferent:
** Subverted. The Pagans in the film ''are'' portrayed as more tolerant towards other religions than Christians, as they only organize an attack on those in response to a public assault on a Pagan priest, and they also seem to be friendly or at least indifferent to Alexandria's Jewish population, while the Christians are openly hostile to Jews. However, once the provocation happens, the pagans become just as violent and bloodthirsty as their opponents, and in the ensuing battle there is no moral distinction between a mob and the other.
** In an unrelated latter, the Pagan prayers said to Serapis are strikingly similar to some attributes given to God in Christianity, which might have been deliberately written in to underline this trope.
** Subverted. The Pagans in the film ''are'' portrayed as more tolerant towards other religions than Christians, as they only organize an attack on those in response to a public assault on a Pagan priest, and they also seem to be friendly or at least indifferent to Alexandria's Jewish population, while the Christians are openly hostile to Jews. However, once the provocation happens, the pagans become just as violent and bloodthirsty as their opponents, and in the ensuing battle there is no moral distinction between a mob and the other.
** In an unrelated latter, the Pagan prayers said to Serapis are strikingly similar to some attributes given to God in Christianity, which might have been deliberately written in to underline this trope.
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* AnachronismStew: The ship used by Hypatia to test her theories has ratlines, which were invented centuries later.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Cyril is potrayed in the movie as instigating the murder of Hypatia for being a female scientist, a supposed witch, and a pagan - along with generally being depicted as TheFundamentalist. In history, he didn't order Hypatia to be killed, much less for any of the reasons he has in the film. In the film Cyril's rivalry with Orestes is depicted as being over Hypatia's popularity and influence over Orestes, but in history the rivalry was unrelated to Hypatia, and her death only happened because people (wrongly) assumed ''Orestes'' influenced ''her''. To a desgree, this villain upgrade depiction also applies to the Christians of Alexandria in general.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Cyril is potrayed in the movie as instigating the murder of Hypatia for being a female scientist, a supposed witch, and a pagan - along with generally being depicted as TheFundamentalist. In history, he didn't order Hypatia to be killed, much less for any of the reasons he has in the film. In the film Cyril's rivalry with Orestes is depicted as being over Hypatia's popularity and influence over Orestes, but in history the rivalry was unrelated to Hypatia, and her death only happened because people (wrongly) assumed ''Orestes'' influenced ''her''. To a desgree, degree, this villain upgrade depiction also applies to the Christians of Alexandria in general.
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''Ágora'' (written and directed by your favorite LGBT Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar) is 2009 historical drama film portraying the life of the female philosopher Hypatia (played by Creator/RachelWeisz), as well as her slave Davus (Creator/MaxMinghella) and pupil Orestes (Creator/OscarIsaac), from the destruction of Alexandria to her death at the hands of fanatical Christians. It takes a number of liberties with the history it's trying to depict, so take it with a grain of salt.
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