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Agora

Jul 03, 2011 18:29

Just watched Agora, a movie that I heard about from the entries about it at The Wild Hunt.

I can't speak too confidently about the historical Hypatia (nor do I particularly expect this movie to do so, because it probably doesn't). Near as I can tell from totally cursory Googling on the subject, not only was Hypatia's religious affiliation not ( Read more... )

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I know nothing about Hypatia... motherwell July 12 2011, 19:30:02 UTC

...but offhand I think it's highly unlikely that the real Hypatia would have been an atheist back then. Possibly a Deist, like many of the people who wrote our Constitution, or maybe somewhere between a pantheist and an agnostic, but not a full-on atheist.

Not that the Christians of that era would have been able to understand or care about the difference...