Dario Marianelli • Agora OST

Agora "called the new film by director Alejandro Amenabar, Starring: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella and Oscar Isaak. Central character of the film is Hypatia, a Greek mathematician, philosopher and astronomer, who lived in Alexandria in 391 AD This is a project that brings us to the time when the fall of the Roman Empire and the menacing closer relationships between Christians and Pagans hanging by a thread. In this climate, Hypatia taught philosophy, mathematics and astronomy, trying to salvage the scientific knowledge of antiquity, while the Market is taught the religion of Christianity through violent means. Impressive is the peculiar relationship with a student's slave, who brought Christianity to win his freedom, but nourishing erotic feelings for the professor. As the empire is gaining increasing the number of believers in Christianity, is directed against the pagans and Jews to massacre and punishment. The Alexandrian scholar, which was the last glimpse of classical antiquity, is the biggest victim of events, finding a tragic death by a mob, which had characterized as a witch ..