Re: Comment on More Than 100,000 Bay Area Women Expected at Women’ s Marches Saturday (fwd)

[Noelle <noelle>]

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 > Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 18:19:19 -0000
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 > Bill_Woods wrote, in response to Noelle:
 > 
 > That film is not good history.  The screenplay includes sufficient elements 
 > and details from the actual historical story to indicate that Amenábar and 
 > Gil did enough homework to have been able to depict things as they actually 
 > happened.  But this is a movie with a message and an agenda, so these 
 > elements get mixed around, downplayed, countered or simply distorted to suit 
 > Amenábar's objectives.  More importantly, most of the elements that support 
 > the "message" the director is preaching are wholesale fictional inventions.
 > To begin with, as I detailed in my article last year, there was no
 > "Great Library of Alexandria" as such in the city at this time.  The former 
 > Great Library had degraded and suffered several major losses of books over 
 > the centuries but it had ceased to exist by this stage - the last clear 
 > reference to it that we know of dates all the way back to AD 135.  
 > http://armariummagnus.blogspot.com/2010/05/hypatia-and-agora-redux.html
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 > Noelle wrote:
 > 
 > yes, the film Agora is worth viewing again. Anti-science mobs destroyed the  library of Alexandria.