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* [[Near-Rape Experience]]: {{spoiler|Davus manages to stop himself during his attack on Hypatia, and offers his knife to her, expecting to be killed. Instead, she gives him his freedom.}} |
* [[Near-Rape Experience]]: {{spoiler|Davus manages to stop himself during his attack on Hypatia, and offers his knife to her, expecting to be killed. Instead, she gives him his freedom.}} |
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* [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]]: The whole reason Christians started slaughtering pagans and later Jews. Subverted because Christians are obviously as religious as the others were. |
* [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]]: The whole reason Christians started slaughtering pagans and later Jews. Subverted because Christians are obviously as religious as the others were. |
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* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: The film contains [http://armariummagnus.blogspot.com/2009/05/agora-and-hypatia-hollywood-strikes.html a number] [http://armariummagnus.blogspot.com/2009/05/agora-and-hypatia-hollywood-strikes.html of myths] about Hypatia and the Library of Alexandria that are so common in pop-culture that the real history sounds implausible to many people. |
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: The film contains [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717220859/http://armariummagnus.blogspot.com/2009/05/agora-and-hypatia-hollywood-strikes.html a number] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717220859/http://armariummagnus.blogspot.com/2009/05/agora-and-hypatia-hollywood-strikes.html of myths] about Hypatia and the Library of Alexandria that are so common in pop-culture that the real history sounds implausible to many people. |
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** To what degree the movie is guilty of spreading historical myths is, however, somewhat [http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2010/08/agora-review.html open to debate]. |
** To what degree the movie is guilty of spreading historical myths is, however, somewhat [http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2010/08/agora-review.html open to debate]. |
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* [[Shameful Strip]]: The mob strips Hypatia naked before they try to stone her. |
* [[Shameful Strip]]: The mob strips Hypatia naked before they try to stone her. |