Movie Agora text translation

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Late 4th century AD The Roman Empire began to collapse
Alexandria in the province of Egypt, still preserved part of its splendor. It owned one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world. the legendary lighthouse, and the largest known library.

The library was not only a cultural symbol. But religious a place where the pagans worshiped their ancestral gods.
The traditional pagan cult now coexisted in the city with the Jewish. And with an unstoppable religion, until recently Christianity was prohibited


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After taking the library, many pagans converted to Christianity and Alexandria experienced a period of peace. 

Hypatia continued teaching and researching, while his former disciples overshadowed important positions in the social elite
the empire split in two forever, many christians saw this as a sign of the end of the world and decided to prepare by practicing a holier life


Hypatia's body was mutilated and her remains dragged through the streets and burned on a pyre. Orestes disappeared forever and Cyril seized power in Alexandria. Later, Cyril was declared a saint and a doctor of the church

Although no work of Hypatia survives, it is known that she was an exceptional astronomer, known for her mathematical studies of conic curves.

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mil doscientos anos despues, en el siglo XVII, el astronomo johannes kepler descubrio que una de esas curvas, la elipse, rige el movimiento de los planetas. >>

Twelve hundred years later, in the seventeenth century, the astronomer johannes kepler discovered that one of those curves, the ellipse, governs the movement of the planets


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