Agora Comments

  • Aaliyah 2022-09-02 11:06:25

    Religions are as scary as superstitions, they rule people's...

  • Elinore 2022-08-21 04:27:58

    From the character setting, I like this movie very much: the conspiracy of religion and politics killed the truth. Religion and politics are like twin brothers in the city of Rome. Sometimes they fight each other. In the fight, the truth is their weapon, and sometimes they use each other to bury the truth if necessary. War and religion are the enemies of civilization~~The time when the library was destroyed is...

  • Kailyn 2022-05-23 23:54:16

    Perhaps history is like the elliptical trajectory of Hypatia. You thought it was drifting away, but after a round, you returned to the closest...

  • Elenora 2022-05-23 23:06:08

    The light of truth and reason represented by the neo-Platonist female philosopher Hypatia is like the last white candle with weak firepower in the dark night, swaying in the bloody rain of religious cleansing and killing, gradually disappearing. Her death heralded the decline of Greek science and culture ever since. Human civilization may take three steps back and two steps, and hobble forward. But humanity has been stumbling from beginning to end in a selfish, ignorant, stupid and cruel place....

  • Morton 2022-05-23 21:24:57

    You care about the sun, moon and stars, but I only care about...

  • Elsie 2022-05-23 21:04:51

    What we see is not necessarily true. Only through doubt can we approach the truth. The search for truth can more or less explain the philosophy of human existence. There are the pursuit of freedom, emotion, power, and confusion in the film. In these emotional explorations, the most important thing is to hold a skeptical attitude. This is the basic doctrine of philosophy and the basis for discovering the truth. I admire Hypatia, she has never given up her search for...

  • Scotty 2022-05-23 14:46:10

    Whether you believe it or not, what sect you believe in. Human slaughter is not attributed to a certain religion. Religion itself is not the cause. Human fanaticism is the root of sin. Religions cannot whitewash the evil of human nature. The killings they commit are the sins of all of us. Here we are all Only one...

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  • Hoyt 2022-11-01 20:19:52

    "City Square": Classic in a narrow sense and tragedy in a broad sense

    When the value of the film is focused on the content by public opinion, the form of the film itself is often no longer important. The so-called topical film is this reason. You can be obsessed with piercings or loopholes, but the value of the topical movie itself is far from being overwhelmed by...

  • Jennings 2022-11-03 19:39:55

    Not that square, nor Hypatia

    Edward Gibbon, in his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, states the following (later "Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology", almost verbatim photo):

    "Hypatia, daughter of the mathematician Theon, was inspired by her father's teachings, and with extensive...

Agora quotes

  • Hypatia: Synesius, you don't question what you believe, or cannot. I must.

  • Hypatia: [Looks up at night sky] If I could just unravel this just a little bit more, and just get a little closer to the answer, then... Then I would go to my grave a happy woman.