The new film about Hypatia, Agora, is being shown at least in France now. Here is a review from LeMonde. Regardless of the quality of the plot - apparently it...
Hi Dennis, here's some comments I posted on another list: Just saw Almenabar’s Agora, his portrait of the life of Hypatia, and thought it was terrific, no...
... That's great news, glad to get your positive reactions - Lonsdale is a fine actor, so another indication this is a serious effort. If the spirit is right,...
It is supposed to be released here. We also already have it in our Netflix quene. ... From: vaeringjar <vaeringjar@...> Subject: [neoplatonism] Re: A...
... Thanks for your very promising review, Michael! From what you say it sounds like the reports that Hypatia is portrayed as an "atheist" are not without some...
... M.C. Actually, it seems like they followed the account of Gibbon (Decline and fall ch. 47) right down to the details : the prefect Orestes wounded by a...
... IMDB.com also shows it as upcoming in 2010 here, but without a specific date. I just did a little online research on the Parabolani, and they are indeed...
Hello List, Â While I have the movie in my Netflix (when released), I also have a local Nashville observation. We have a bunch of fundamentalist churches, of...
... They are already mobilizing locally against Agora being shown in Nashville? The movie can't be all that well known in America yet - or I I suppose it is,...
But if the film perpetuates the stereotype that all Christians are fundamentalists, then, in a broader sense, doesn't it commit the very error it sermonizes...
... M.C. It's not clear how a film that depicts one specific historical period could have anything to say about "all Christians" (even if it were not the case...
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John Dillon
jmdillon@...
Feb 8, 2010 9:26 am
... That is a very fine riposte, Michael. I really must contrive to see this movie. JMD [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Mr Uebersax, it is not Pedro Almodovar, but Alejandro Amenabar, who is the director of Agora. As for the portraying of fundamentalists, not only are some...
Mr Uebersax, it is not Pedro Almodovar, but Alejandro Amenabar, who is the director of Agora. As for the portraying of fundamentalists, not only are some...
... While it is true, as Michael Chase already pointed out, that this is a film about a particular historical person and her death, nevertheless the question...
Hello Peter, Â I would appreciate your comments about the following. They are quotes on the issue of self consciousness as the principle of individuation...
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Adamson, Peter
peter.adamson@...
Feb 8, 2010 4:56 pm
Dear Thomas, Right, what Prof Goodman is pushing here is the idea that self-awareness, as proven in the Flying Man argument, is according to Avicenna...
Dear Peter, Thank you for your comments and additional sources. As it happens, tomorrow is my birthday. My wife asked me what I wanted. I gave her a book list...
Hello Dennis, Â Let me list a few of the letter writing campaigns down here in the South (I moved here 20 years ago from San Francisco and still suffer...
Again - Well said, John. (Except for the Almodovar bit). Les P.O. Box 314 Mentone, Victoria 3194 Australia Email: neoplatonist2000@... ... From: leslie...
... Dear Thomas, I hope your wife will forgive me if I contribute another title to your list, the best book I have read on Avicenna : Jean (Yahya) Michot's La...
A friend and I were discussing Zeus and his paramours and she brought up the story that Zeus had raped Rhea. She thought it was in one of the Orphic Hymns or...
Hi Greg, ... The version I know says that Zeus came in the form of a serpent first to Rhea (who bore Demeter), then to Demeter (who bore Persephone), then to...
Hello, I have heard this question raised before. There was a psychoanalyst meeting in San Francisco. There was a paper on Kohut and pre-Oedipal psychology...
Hello, To follow up, OF 145 cited by Guthrie is from Kern's Orphicorum Fragmenta. OF 145 is part of the Rhapsodic Theogony and the actual source in Proklos....
... I live near Seattle, and I was in myself in San Francisco for 10 years, so I have not been east of the Rockies now in 15 years, and my friends who have say...
Sorry to pick your collective brain again, but I have been searching unsuccessfully for a source for the quotation - "Each of us finds the world of death...
