Agora

The Hollywood-made film Agora - set in Alexandria, Egypt, 391 AD, directed by Alejandro Amenábar and starring Rachel Weisz - tells us about the life and death of the Greek scholar Hypatia of Alexandria. 'Agora' is a historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria."  The big-budget movie "Agora" charts the bloody struggles that pitted pagans and Jews against the early Christians seizing power across the Mediterranean region.