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* [[Bishounen]]: Bishop Synesius of Cyrene, played by the British actor [[Rupert Evans]], a rare case of a western example.
* [[Church Militant]]
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* [[Corrupt Church]]: Subverted; its not corrupt, but very fanatical.
* [[Easy Evangelism]]: How Davus the slave became Christian.
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** [[Rachel Weisz]] could be considered Testosterone Brigade Bait.
* [[Faith Heel Turn]]
* [[Foreign Looking Font]]: On the posters it overlaps shockingly with [[Did Not Do the Research]] because the psuedo-Grecian font uses Lambdas in place of Latin alphabet 'A's or Alphas in Greek meaning that if we ignore the fact that a Latin alphabet 'R' is used in place of the correct Greek Rho (which looks like a 'P') and that a Latin 'G' is used in place of a Greek Gamma then the film's title reads; LGORL.
* [[The Heretic]]: Hypatia, after paganism became illegal.
** Considering she was a principled atheist ("You do not question what you believe; you cannot. I must."), she was technically a heretic from the beginning.
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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.}}
* [[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.
* [[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.
** 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].
* [[Shameful Strip]]: The mob strips Hypatia naked before they try to stone her.
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