In this History Buffs video Nick Hodges reviews and explains the history of Agora, a 2009 movie about Hypatia. Hypatia was a fourth/fifth century scholar of philosophy, astronomy and mathematics....
In this History Buffs video Nick Hodges reviews and explains the history of Agora, a 2009 movie about Hypatia. Hypatia was a fourth/fifth century scholar of philosophy, astronomy and mathematics. She was violently killed by Christians in 415 CE.
I haven't seen the actual movie yet, but this review made me feel some things. On the one hand it's so sad to think of what was lost by the destruction of libraries and killing of scholars, and where our world would be if knowledge and science had been allowed to thrive.
On the other hand it shows how remarkable it is that we once again have repositories of the world's knowledge. Only this time it's not restricted to individual libraries. It's available to people around the world and across a wide range of classes. It allows us to have a multitude of Hypatias.
In this History Buffs video Nick Hodges reviews and explains the history of Agora, a 2009 movie about Hypatia. Hypatia was a fourth/fifth century scholar of philosophy, astronomy and mathematics. She was violently killed by Christians in 415 CE.
I haven't seen the actual movie yet, but this review made me feel some things. On the one hand it's so sad to think of what was lost by the destruction of libraries and killing of scholars, and where our world would be if knowledge and science had been allowed to thrive.
On the other hand it shows how remarkable it is that we once again have repositories of the world's knowledge. Only this time it's not restricted to individual libraries. It's available to people around the world and across a wide range of classes. It allows us to have a multitude of Hypatias.