I’m sort of a sucker for the early A.D. stuff. My husband has got me into the History Channel, like, major. HBO’s Rome has to be one of my favorite series on that network (I still miss it sooooo). Now here’s the trailer to a new ancient period piece called Agora. It stars Rachel Weisz (LOVE her) as Hypatia, a female scholar from Alexandria in 370-415 AD. A lady with a brain, she was a well-respected philosopher dedicated to studies of math and astronomy and held a power position within the Alexandrian mucky mucks. However, the spreading Christianity posed a problem for the atheist and soon she was facing grave danger for her free-thinking beliefs. Check it out:
Oh hell yeah, I’m totally there.