Agora

This film had me thinking about the possibilities that could have been had events such as the destroying of the library in Alexandria had never occured. Although there is no certainty about Hypatia's discover of the planets orbits on elipses rather than perfect circles, it seems very likely that such ideas could have become more concrete within the world much sooner than when Johannes Kepler finalized it over a milennia later. This film certainly sheds such a negative light on early Christianity, but there is a significance to this in my opinion. The elimination of the polythiestic religions within the greater Helenic world is such a foreshadowing to the dark ages, where man lost connection to the thoughts and ideas of some of the brightest thinkers in the past. But would be it possible to sense such a change, or foreshadowing, even today? Texas, the biggest distributer of school text books, has decided to eliminate key figures and moments in recent history which bring back this age of Helen through exogesis of surviving texts. If the enlightenment is no longer taught, then even that connection to this great era of philosophy of the Greeks and Romans seems to be cut. Now it may be likely that such an event would occur within texas and some other parts of the U.S., but I put much faith in other countries to keep with such traditions even if we dip into a modern dark age.