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Christy 2022-10-05 08:03:13
What is Faith?
Agora is a Greek word that literally translates to city square. In the film, it is the zealous crowd that gathers in the city square that ultimately leads to the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, the symbol of Greek civilization, and Hypatia, the leader of the Plato school.
In the late...
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Braeden 2022-10-05 08:56:49
Do not engage in formalism
"Agora" is the most worth watching film in the first half of the year, and it is based on the history of the Greek philosopher Hypatia's murder by Christians. Don't think that Burning Books, Trapping Confucianism and Boxer Rebellion are unique to China. This film tells everyone that the West has...
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Hypatia: Ever since Plato, all of them - Aristarchus, Hipparchus, Ptolemy - they have all, all, all tried to reconcile their observations with circular orbits. But what if another shape is hiding in the heavens?
Davus: Another shape? Lady, there is no shape more pure than the circle; you taught us that.
Hypatia: I know, I know, but suppose - just suppose! - the purity of the circle has blinded us from seeing anything beyond it! I must begin all over with new eyes. I must rethink everything!... What if we dared to look at the world just as it is. Let us shed for a moment every preconceived idea - what shape would it show us?
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Davus: I was forgiven but now I can't forgive.
Ammonius: Forgive? Who the Jews?
Davus: Well Jesus pardoned them on the cross.
