Sunday, September 19, 2010

a sunday of dark age

Crap-O-Christian-inSanity !

Hypatia and the Clash of Civilizations in Late Antiquity
Sunday 19 September 2010
by: Evaggelos Vallianatos, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed


When the Greeks spoke of "agora," they meant a place for political discussion, jury trials, and a market. In other words, agora was the center of Greek life.



In October 9, 2009, the Spanish movie producer, Alejandro Amenabar, released a film he pointedly named "Agora," in which he zeroed in the clash of Greek and Christian civilizations in the fourth and fifth centuries in Alexandria, Egypt.

(Right: poster of "Agora" from IMDB.com)







(Left: Hypatia as imagined by Raphael-Wikipedia)

The violent Christianization of polytheistic Greece even redefined agora as just a place for trade, eventually becoming the "free market" of today. (Read More)

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