1 00:00:47,848 --> 00:00:50,851 In the late fourth century C.E. the Roman Empire began to crumble. 2 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:54,083 Alexandria, in the province of Egypt, still retained some of its splendor. 3 00:00:54,312 --> 00:00:57,315 She possessed one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world: 4 00:00:57,544 --> 00:01:00,848 The legendary lighthouse, and the biggest known library. 5 00:01:01,090 --> 00:01:04,293 The library was not only a cultural but a religious symbol, 6 00:01:04,531 --> 00:01:07,635 a place where the pagans worshiped their ancestral gods. 7 00:01:07,868 --> 00:01:10,971 The traditional pagan worship in the city now coexisted 8 00:01:11,204 --> 00:01:15,809 with the Jews, and an unstoppable religion, up until now banned: 9 00:01:16,105 --> 00:01:18,007 ...Christianity. 10 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,561 How many fools do you think have asked themselves? 11 00:01:40,087 --> 00:01:42,489 Why don't the stars fall from the sky. 12 00:01:42,903 --> 00:01:45,706 But you, who've had the teachings of the wise, 13 00:01:46,343 --> 00:01:49,446 You know that the stars move neither up nor down. 14 00:01:49,681 --> 00:01:52,183 They merely revolve from east to west, 15 00:01:52,495 --> 00:01:55,799 following the most perfect course ever conceived, 16 00:01:56,562 --> 00:01:57,664 The circle. 17 00:02:04,696 --> 00:02:06,698 Because the circle reigns in the heavens, 18 00:02:06,885 --> 00:02:09,988 the stars have never fallen and they never will. 19 00:02:10,430 --> 00:02:14,034 But, what about here on Earth? 20 00:02:19,085 --> 00:02:20,286 Here, bodies do fall. 21 00:02:21,170 --> 00:02:24,573 But their movements are not circular but linear. 22 00:02:25,237 --> 00:02:26,388 Watch again. 23 00:02:30,137 --> 00:02:31,989 No, leave it. 24 00:02:33,057 --> 00:02:34,458 So, 25 00:02:34,726 --> 00:02:37,979 What mysterious wonder do you all think might be 26 00:02:38,375 --> 00:02:42,830 lurking beneath the Earth that would make every single person and animal 27 00:02:43,275 --> 00:02:46,028 and object and slaves settle there? 28 00:02:47,654 --> 00:02:49,306 What might it be? 29 00:02:50,157 --> 00:02:51,709 The heaviness, lady. 30 00:02:52,034 --> 00:02:53,034 No. 31 00:02:56,413 --> 00:02:57,664 Synesius. 32 00:03:02,253 --> 00:03:02,804 The weightiness. 33 00:03:03,087 --> 00:03:07,842 No, you're both speaking about the same thing, but you're not talking about the primary cause. 34 00:03:10,699 --> 00:03:13,752 Have any of you ever wondered at the thought that your... 35 00:03:14,452 --> 00:03:16,054 ...that your feet... 36 00:03:16,329 --> 00:03:17,430 ...your feet... 37 00:03:17,684 --> 00:03:20,938 ...are standing on the very center of the cosmos 38 00:03:21,542 --> 00:03:26,197 that holds all things together and pulls them together? 39 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,321 If there were no center, then the universe would be 40 00:03:30,927 --> 00:03:33,179 shapeless, infinite, formless, 41 00:03:33,534 --> 00:03:34,886 chaotic. 42 00:03:35,202 --> 00:03:37,962 Will it make a little difference if we were here or there or anywhere? 43 00:03:38,018 --> 00:03:40,220 And we'd all be better off never having been born. 44 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:46,526 Library of Alexandria, 391 C.E. 45 00:03:59,811 --> 00:04:01,462 God, our Father, 46 00:04:01,792 --> 00:04:03,443 Lord of the Universe, 47 00:04:03,773 --> 00:04:05,825 origin of all things, 48 00:04:06,171 --> 00:04:07,873 eternal force of the Cosmos, 49 00:04:08,048 --> 00:04:11,902 where everything has its beginning and everything its end. 50 00:04:12,635 --> 00:04:15,789 Almighty Serapis, Isis, Horus, 51 00:04:16,181 --> 00:04:20,535 Anubis and all the other gods we ask for your protection, 52 00:04:20,977 --> 00:04:23,279 both in Heaven and on Earth. 53 00:04:27,129 --> 00:04:29,331 I don't know what's happening in the market but... 54 00:05:08,316 --> 00:05:12,420 - Orestes... - If you would just let me speak. Please... 55 00:05:12,695 --> 00:05:16,449 I know you feel something as well. I've seen. 56 00:05:19,056 --> 00:05:20,908 Tell the master we're leaving. 57 00:05:35,739 --> 00:05:39,793 Can you believe? He was courting me as if I was one of his conquests. 58 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,793 This Orestes is as foolish as his father. 59 00:05:44,602 --> 00:05:47,755 I already suggested that he devote his heart to another muse, 60 00:05:48,148 --> 00:05:50,800 one more beautiful than I. 61 00:05:51,588 --> 00:05:53,490 - Who? - Music. 62 00:05:54,091 --> 00:05:55,592 Music? 63 00:06:00,347 --> 00:06:02,149 You do not find it amusing? 64 00:06:12,859 --> 00:06:16,163 But how could... 227 ever become 16? 65 00:06:17,656 --> 00:06:19,258 Look at this, it's 14. 66 00:07:06,663 --> 00:07:12,269 They behave like humans! They eat, drink and fornicate! 67 00:07:15,839 --> 00:07:19,743 If my gods eat, drink and fornicate, good for them. 68 00:07:20,635 --> 00:07:23,438 Know this, 69 00:07:23,763 --> 00:07:26,766 you who console yourself with pagan images. 70 00:07:27,101 --> 00:07:29,803 Men, women, birds, reptiles! 71 00:07:30,541 --> 00:07:31,742 Serapis! 72 00:07:31,896 --> 00:07:36,501 Serapis! Who could trust a God with a flower pot 73 00:07:36,901 --> 00:07:38,603 for a crown? 74 00:07:39,196 --> 00:07:41,999 Oh, you Christians, how arrogant you've become now that the. 75 00:07:42,324 --> 00:07:44,626 Empire allows you to exist. 76 00:07:44,930 --> 00:07:47,633 My father's father saw them 77 00:07:47,954 --> 00:07:49,856 slaughtered in the circus 78 00:07:50,144 --> 00:07:51,645 and fed to the lions. 79 00:07:54,419 --> 00:07:56,421 Enough! Watch. 80 00:07:57,235 --> 00:07:58,436 Watch. 81 00:07:59,216 --> 00:08:01,318 I shall now walk across the fire. 82 00:08:04,533 --> 00:08:06,035 If my God... 83 00:08:08,808 --> 00:08:12,312 If my God is the true god, I shall suffer no harm. 84 00:08:12,666 --> 00:08:14,268 If however, your gods exist 85 00:08:15,169 --> 00:08:17,171 they will roast me like a pig. 86 00:08:18,297 --> 00:08:19,398 You... 87 00:08:21,217 --> 00:08:22,718 You're mad! 88 00:08:25,284 --> 00:08:26,785 You'll get what you deserve. 89 00:08:47,701 --> 00:08:50,904 Now, let's see if you can walk across the fire. 90 00:08:52,706 --> 00:08:54,908 What are you doing? 91 00:08:55,626 --> 00:08:57,828 Stop, you can't do that! Let the man go. 92 00:08:58,650 --> 00:09:00,452 Be quiet pagan or we'll throw you in as well. 93 00:09:15,854 --> 00:09:17,956 Whose is this? 94 00:09:19,087 --> 00:09:20,288 Whose is this? 95 00:09:23,154 --> 00:09:25,055 How many times must I repeat myself? 96 00:09:27,116 --> 00:09:28,317 Today, 97 00:09:29,306 --> 00:09:32,008 the Christians burned a man. 98 00:09:32,642 --> 00:09:35,145 Right in the middle of the Agora! 99 00:09:35,770 --> 00:09:37,672 I will not have this in my house! 100 00:09:37,855 --> 00:09:40,258 Not in the house of Theon! 101 00:09:45,155 --> 00:09:47,157 Give it to me. 102 00:09:48,491 --> 00:09:50,393 Give it to me! 103 00:09:53,705 --> 00:09:55,607 Master, I beg mercy for your slave girl. 104 00:09:55,998 --> 00:09:56,999 - Davus! Get up. 105 00:09:57,875 --> 00:09:59,155 You have nothing to do with this. 106 00:09:59,232 --> 00:10:00,733 I too, am a Christian. 107 00:10:04,132 --> 00:10:05,433 What did you say? 108 00:10:05,696 --> 00:10:08,299 I too, am a Christian. Punish me for the both of us. 109 00:10:09,971 --> 00:10:13,275 So, now they presume to teach us mercy. 110 00:10:15,393 --> 00:10:17,395 - Get a whip. - Father! 111 00:10:20,294 --> 00:10:22,196 Please wait until you calm before you... 112 00:10:24,986 --> 00:10:26,988 Father, I beg of you. I beg of you! 113 00:10:33,536 --> 00:10:35,738 ...wrapped in a blazing brightness. 114 00:10:35,830 --> 00:10:38,733 It was the flames, stupid. 115 00:10:38,958 --> 00:10:42,162 Then why didn't he burn like the pagan? Tell me. 116 00:10:48,447 --> 00:10:49,548 Leave us... 117 00:10:59,082 --> 00:11:00,184 Come here. 118 00:11:04,087 --> 00:11:05,389 Kneel. 119 00:11:28,591 --> 00:11:30,493 Tell me, is it true that you're a Christian? 120 00:11:31,303 --> 00:11:33,605 - I don't know what to say, Mistress. - Why not? 121 00:11:34,431 --> 00:11:36,933 If I said yes, that would be a lie. 122 00:11:38,497 --> 00:11:41,900 If I said no, it'd mean I lied to my master. I don't know which one's worse. 123 00:11:42,564 --> 00:11:44,266 Then you should say nothing at all. 124 00:11:49,966 --> 00:11:51,067 There. 125 00:11:53,929 --> 00:11:55,030 Thank you. 126 00:11:57,891 --> 00:12:01,295 I want you to know that the Master is upset with himself about this. 127 00:12:08,005 --> 00:12:09,307 What is that? 128 00:12:11,655 --> 00:12:13,257 Something I made, Mistress. 129 00:12:14,157 --> 00:12:15,559 But it looks like a... 130 00:12:18,224 --> 00:12:19,326 What is it? 131 00:12:20,935 --> 00:12:22,537 It's Ptolemaic System. 132 00:12:23,229 --> 00:12:24,331 It is. 133 00:12:26,670 --> 00:12:28,171 Did you make this? 134 00:12:29,902 --> 00:12:31,103 Earth... 135 00:12:32,822 --> 00:12:34,524 is the center of the Cosmos... 136 00:12:36,368 --> 00:12:38,069 and revolving around it... 137 00:12:38,765 --> 00:12:39,866 the Sun... 138 00:12:40,121 --> 00:12:43,525 and the five wanderers: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. 139 00:12:43,979 --> 00:12:46,382 Obstinately disobeying the law of the circle. 140 00:12:47,003 --> 00:12:50,307 Nevertheless, Ptolemy shows us that they do obey. 141 00:12:50,652 --> 00:12:51,853 The fact that we see them move 142 00:12:52,112 --> 00:12:53,314 in a loop 143 00:12:53,989 --> 00:12:56,692 is due to the joint effect of two circles. 144 00:12:57,117 --> 00:12:58,519 One that... 145 00:12:58,681 --> 00:13:01,284 travels around the Earth 146 00:13:02,644 --> 00:13:04,446 and another lesser circle 147 00:13:05,355 --> 00:13:06,856 proper to each wanderer. 148 00:13:07,231 --> 00:13:10,435 - Look, epicycles! - So you see, it's not Heaven that errs. 149 00:13:11,507 --> 00:13:13,409 But our eyes that deceive us. 150 00:13:14,217 --> 00:13:15,819 Well said, Davus. 151 00:13:15,990 --> 00:13:17,739 I'd like you to know that your exposition shows me 152 00:13:17,763 --> 00:13:19,965 that you've been paying closer attention than... 153 00:13:21,933 --> 00:13:24,636 One or two..others here. 154 00:13:28,293 --> 00:13:30,195 I tell you, the gods should have consulted me 155 00:13:30,589 --> 00:13:31,789 before they created anything. 156 00:13:33,194 --> 00:13:34,696 Why do you say that, Orestes? 157 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:37,282 It all seems so whimsical! 158 00:13:38,199 --> 00:13:40,001 Why the joint effect of two circles? 159 00:13:40,494 --> 00:13:44,998 Wouldn't it be more perfect if the wanderers didn't wander... 160 00:13:45,290 --> 00:13:48,894 and a single circle gave sense to everything? 161 00:13:49,148 --> 00:13:51,751 Orestes, by what authority do you judge the work of God? 162 00:13:54,362 --> 00:13:56,263 What is wrong with you Christians? 163 00:13:57,594 --> 00:13:59,796 Can a man no longer open his mouth in this city? 164 00:13:59,992 --> 00:14:03,295 If you criticize creation, you criticize our Lord and you offend us. 165 00:14:03,538 --> 00:14:05,239 You should move out to the desert. 166 00:14:05,415 --> 00:14:07,617 You won't hear anything to offend you out there. 167 00:14:07,813 --> 00:14:10,716 You know nothing of what you speak. None of you. 168 00:14:15,737 --> 00:14:17,939 Synesius, what is Euclid's first rule? 169 00:14:19,700 --> 00:14:20,801 Why the question? 170 00:14:21,159 --> 00:14:22,661 Just.. Answer me. 171 00:14:26,790 --> 00:14:27,891 If... 172 00:14:28,563 --> 00:14:31,666 if two things are equal to a third thing... 173 00:14:31,899 --> 00:14:33,901 then they are all equal to each other. 174 00:14:34,089 --> 00:14:35,089 Good. 175 00:14:36,174 --> 00:14:38,276 Now, are you both not similar to me? 176 00:14:42,848 --> 00:14:43,649 Yes. 177 00:14:43,786 --> 00:14:45,388 And you, Orestes? 178 00:14:46,602 --> 00:14:47,803 Yes. 179 00:14:49,417 --> 00:14:53,120 Now, I am actually saying this to everybody here in this room. 180 00:14:53,378 --> 00:14:54,780 More things unite us... 181 00:14:55,047 --> 00:14:56,649 than divide us. 182 00:14:56,820 --> 00:15:00,424 Now, whatever may be going on in the streets, we are brothers. 183 00:15:00,991 --> 00:15:02,493 We are brothers... 184 00:15:03,494 --> 00:15:06,597 I want you to remember that brawls are for slaves and for riff-raff. 185 00:15:09,437 --> 00:15:13,441 Now, I think we should all honor Davus with some very well earned applause. 186 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:22,983 He'll judge us all alive and dead. 187 00:15:23,514 --> 00:15:25,616 And then it will be too late, 188 00:15:25,807 --> 00:15:29,410 because only those who believed in Jesus 189 00:15:29,874 --> 00:15:31,776 will be saved. 190 00:15:31,959 --> 00:15:34,061 What are you waiting for? 191 00:15:34,357 --> 00:15:36,159 What are you waiting for? 192 00:15:37,172 --> 00:15:39,475 The Kingdom of God is upon us. 193 00:15:40,404 --> 00:15:42,607 Do you understand what I'm telling you? 194 00:15:42,803 --> 00:15:43,904 Yes. 195 00:15:44,263 --> 00:15:47,066 Yeah, but do you understand like men do? 196 00:15:47,391 --> 00:15:49,694 Do you nod your head like sheep? 197 00:15:54,377 --> 00:15:55,479 What are you looking at? 198 00:15:56,776 --> 00:15:57,777 Yes, you. 199 00:15:58,027 --> 00:15:59,629 What are you looking at? 200 00:16:00,946 --> 00:16:01,946 Are you Ammonius? 201 00:16:02,823 --> 00:16:04,925 The man who performed the miracle? 202 00:16:05,117 --> 00:16:07,219 Do you want to see a miracle? 203 00:16:07,932 --> 00:16:09,033 Are you the one? 204 00:16:09,497 --> 00:16:10,598 I am. 205 00:16:11,999 --> 00:16:13,501 Come with me. 206 00:16:17,004 --> 00:16:19,707 Jesus went throughout Galilee 207 00:16:20,444 --> 00:16:22,547 teaching in their synagogues. 208 00:16:23,260 --> 00:16:25,362 Preaching the good news to the Hebrew 209 00:16:25,555 --> 00:16:29,358 and healing every disease or sickness. 210 00:16:30,664 --> 00:16:33,366 News about him spread among the Syrians 211 00:16:34,626 --> 00:16:37,228 and people moved to him from all over the world. 212 00:16:37,441 --> 00:16:39,143 That is Theophilus. 213 00:16:40,674 --> 00:16:41,875 The bishop. 214 00:16:44,114 --> 00:16:46,617 For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. 215 00:16:46,826 --> 00:16:49,128 Blessed are those who mourn 216 00:16:49,745 --> 00:16:51,847 for they will be comforted. 217 00:16:53,708 --> 00:16:56,010 Blessed are the meek 218 00:16:57,252 --> 00:16:59,755 for they will inherit the Earth. 219 00:17:01,006 --> 00:17:04,409 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst for righteousness 220 00:17:05,489 --> 00:17:07,491 for they will be filled. 221 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:08,781 The word of God! 222 00:17:09,035 --> 00:17:10,837 Blessed are the merciful 223 00:17:11,329 --> 00:17:13,031 for they will be shown mercy. 224 00:17:13,832 --> 00:17:16,735 Blessed are the pure in heart, 225 00:17:17,168 --> 00:17:18,770 for they will see God. 226 00:17:22,069 --> 00:17:23,771 The Lord be with you. 227 00:17:25,301 --> 00:17:27,203 So how were you able to escape the flames? 228 00:17:27,491 --> 00:17:29,994 - The Lord be with you. - And with you. 229 00:17:30,410 --> 00:17:32,813 What do you think I did? I prayed. 230 00:17:33,643 --> 00:17:37,046 You probably do not even know how. 231 00:17:40,212 --> 00:17:41,413 What do you have in that sack? 232 00:17:41,568 --> 00:17:44,871 - Do you have any food here? - It's for my Master. 233 00:17:45,113 --> 00:17:46,715 What's wrong with you? 234 00:17:46,885 --> 00:17:49,788 I have to pay for that with my own money! 235 00:17:50,222 --> 00:17:52,625 What do you need money for? 236 00:17:53,141 --> 00:17:55,043 Look at their faces. 237 00:17:59,502 --> 00:18:00,604 Here. 238 00:18:00,858 --> 00:18:02,960 I want you to try it yourself. 239 00:18:03,151 --> 00:18:06,554 And afterwards, I will teach you how to pray. 240 00:18:06,905 --> 00:18:08,006 Go on. 241 00:18:11,702 --> 00:18:14,304 - The Lord be with you. - Bless you. 242 00:18:15,559 --> 00:18:16,559 See? 243 00:18:16,603 --> 00:18:18,304 That is a miracle! 244 00:18:18,479 --> 00:18:21,182 Go on, keep doing it. 245 00:18:27,238 --> 00:18:28,539 The Lord be with you. 246 00:18:29,219 --> 00:18:30,320 Please. 247 00:18:31,930 --> 00:18:33,632 Thank you. 248 00:18:39,542 --> 00:18:40,443 Bless you, 249 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,383 God bless you. 250 00:18:44,442 --> 00:18:46,645 Bless you. 251 00:19:02,377 --> 00:19:03,578 Hey, slave! 252 00:19:04,150 --> 00:19:05,351 What is your name? 253 00:19:11,032 --> 00:19:12,033 Davus. 254 00:19:13,117 --> 00:19:14,719 Davus the slavus! 255 00:19:15,203 --> 00:19:17,706 Now, you look like a true Parabalani. 256 00:19:18,435 --> 00:19:20,738 A true soldier of Christ. 257 00:19:30,113 --> 00:19:31,815 What are they saying this time? 258 00:19:32,825 --> 00:19:34,326 Telling them to dance. 259 00:19:34,806 --> 00:19:37,208 The men are now heavy with wine. 260 00:19:39,707 --> 00:19:40,708 All aboard! 261 00:19:40,958 --> 00:19:42,860 Oh, what an unfortunate wretch. 262 00:19:43,043 --> 00:19:44,745 Save your servants! 263 00:19:45,128 --> 00:19:46,629 End of act 2! 264 00:19:56,493 --> 00:19:58,295 Thank you, dear audience, thank you. 265 00:19:58,475 --> 00:20:00,577 Now, excuse the delay while we move things around 266 00:20:00,769 --> 00:20:03,071 and change our costumes. 267 00:20:12,655 --> 00:20:13,857 Forgive me... 268 00:20:14,324 --> 00:20:16,326 Forgive, forgive my boldness. 269 00:20:16,827 --> 00:20:17,827 I am Orestes, 270 00:20:17,870 --> 00:20:19,471 son of Orestes. 271 00:20:20,163 --> 00:20:23,066 I'm here to... 272 00:20:25,794 --> 00:20:29,197 I'm here to declare my love for Hypatia, the philosopher. 273 00:20:29,443 --> 00:20:31,846 Whom you all, no doubt, know. 274 00:20:32,675 --> 00:20:34,577 For some time now, following her counsel. 275 00:20:35,595 --> 00:20:37,597 I have devoted myself to music. 276 00:20:37,994 --> 00:20:41,197 In the hopes of seeking solace in the harmony of its sounds. 277 00:20:42,581 --> 00:20:43,682 But for me, 278 00:20:44,876 --> 00:20:45,876 such harmony... 279 00:20:46,127 --> 00:20:48,429 resides only in my lady. 280 00:20:50,089 --> 00:20:51,190 So, 281 00:20:52,383 --> 00:20:54,585 My purpose here is merely to... 282 00:20:55,511 --> 00:20:57,013 offer my melody... 283 00:20:58,014 --> 00:20:59,715 in the hopes of... 284 00:21:03,331 --> 00:21:04,432 Stop talking. 285 00:23:00,844 --> 00:23:03,547 That man will go far, I tell you. 286 00:23:04,181 --> 00:23:09,186 If my preferred fruit were the banana and not the fig, I would have already fallen 287 00:23:09,499 --> 00:23:10,901 at his feet. 288 00:23:13,878 --> 00:23:15,880 Wouldn't it be best to please him? 289 00:23:16,693 --> 00:23:17,794 Me? 290 00:23:18,988 --> 00:23:19,989 How? 291 00:23:20,135 --> 00:23:23,638 Granting him your daughter's hand. Or don't you ever plan to marry her off? 292 00:23:24,201 --> 00:23:28,405 Hypatia, subject to a man? Without freedom to teach? 293 00:23:29,623 --> 00:23:31,825 Or even to speak her mind. 294 00:23:32,855 --> 00:23:37,560 The most brilliant philosopher I know, having to give up her science. 295 00:23:38,590 --> 00:23:40,792 No, that would be a death to her. 296 00:23:44,742 --> 00:23:48,646 That's true. Her work is admirable. 297 00:23:48,913 --> 00:23:51,516 And she's prudent and virtuous. 298 00:23:53,397 --> 00:23:55,099 But Theon, 299 00:23:55,482 --> 00:23:57,784 Those are yet her fathomed wishes. 300 00:23:58,610 --> 00:24:00,312 Being a woman, I mean. 301 00:24:04,241 --> 00:24:07,244 Our Father who art in Heaven... 302 00:24:14,355 --> 00:24:16,257 Don't let anyone else have her. 303 00:24:18,734 --> 00:24:21,937 Please, don't anyone else have her. 304 00:24:22,592 --> 00:24:27,397 Don't let anyone else have her. 305 00:24:32,602 --> 00:24:33,602 Amen. 306 00:24:39,068 --> 00:24:40,169 Good day, lady. 307 00:24:40,319 --> 00:24:41,620 Good day, lady. 308 00:24:42,300 --> 00:24:43,801 Good day, lady. 309 00:24:46,783 --> 00:24:48,085 Good day lady. 310 00:24:57,002 --> 00:24:59,221 Yesterday, many of you will have seen one of your colleagues 311 00:24:59,245 --> 00:25:00,995 present me with an aulos. 312 00:25:02,528 --> 00:25:04,230 I accepted the gift. 313 00:25:04,614 --> 00:25:08,218 And today I wish to make him a gift of my own in return. 314 00:25:20,046 --> 00:25:21,347 This is for you. 315 00:25:32,454 --> 00:25:34,556 It is the blood of my cycle. 316 00:25:38,606 --> 00:25:40,308 Orestes, you... 317 00:25:40,900 --> 00:25:43,603 You say that you have found harmony in me. 318 00:25:44,549 --> 00:25:46,701 Well, I am suggesting that you look elsewhere 319 00:25:46,792 --> 00:25:49,744 because I think that there is little harmony or... 320 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:52,820 beauty in that. 321 00:25:55,394 --> 00:25:57,196 Don't you agree? 322 00:26:07,385 --> 00:26:10,688 Yesterday we were discussing the Apollonian cone. 323 00:26:11,034 --> 00:26:14,438 We discussed the circle, the ellipse, the parabola. 324 00:26:15,101 --> 00:26:17,503 - Today we will discuss the hyperbola. - Lady! 325 00:26:18,958 --> 00:26:20,460 Forgive me, Lady. 326 00:26:20,627 --> 00:26:22,028 Olympius requires your presence 327 00:26:22,191 --> 00:26:24,093 urgently in the Serapeum. 328 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,142 You as well. 329 00:26:41,898 --> 00:26:45,001 Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. 330 00:26:45,964 --> 00:26:47,466 Thank you, Lord. 331 00:26:48,780 --> 00:26:52,083 How are we to enjoy them force feeding us the faith 332 00:26:52,326 --> 00:26:56,430 accustomed to people who until recently were common outlaws? 333 00:26:56,705 --> 00:26:59,308 - What's happening? - It's despicable. A sacrilege. 334 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,622 Christians have gathered in the Agora. 335 00:27:01,710 --> 00:27:03,412 They are mocking the gods. 336 00:27:03,795 --> 00:27:05,797 We must put an end to these insults! 337 00:27:06,194 --> 00:27:07,495 They may not fear him, 338 00:27:08,175 --> 00:27:10,877 but they will fear our swords. 339 00:27:14,952 --> 00:27:15,753 Wait! 340 00:27:15,890 --> 00:27:16,891 Wait! 341 00:27:17,246 --> 00:27:19,047 Now, what is it you are going to do? 342 00:27:19,540 --> 00:27:21,542 Are you going to attack them? 343 00:27:21,834 --> 00:27:25,238 Are you going to stain your hands with blood for an insult? 344 00:27:26,422 --> 00:27:29,525 To the gods! An insult to the gods! 345 00:27:29,758 --> 00:27:31,456 Well, if you think it is so outrageous, then go 346 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,531 and denounce their acts before the prefect. 347 00:27:33,721 --> 00:27:35,623 One might think that you're protecting them. 348 00:27:35,910 --> 00:27:38,413 I am trying to protect our disciples. 349 00:27:38,934 --> 00:27:41,136 You are inciting them to be vile murderers. 350 00:27:42,376 --> 00:27:46,079 Theon, as director, you have the last word. 351 00:27:51,864 --> 00:27:54,867 The insult must be answered. 352 00:27:55,618 --> 00:27:58,321 Those Jews amongst you do as you please. This is not your battle. 353 00:27:58,537 --> 00:28:02,040 As for you Christians, you would do well to join those of your own faith. 354 00:28:02,291 --> 00:28:05,694 You will not cast my disciples out of this house! 355 00:28:05,940 --> 00:28:09,143 - Glory be to Serapis! - And all the gods! 356 00:28:10,007 --> 00:28:11,709 Wait for my command! 357 00:28:11,884 --> 00:28:14,487 No one must suspect us until we have them surrounded. 358 00:28:14,595 --> 00:28:18,399 The clubs are for the slaves. Slaves! 359 00:28:20,121 --> 00:28:21,723 The slaves are also summoned! 360 00:28:24,709 --> 00:28:26,411 Davus, go back. 361 00:28:26,586 --> 00:28:27,687 No. Go back. 362 00:28:28,255 --> 00:28:29,956 Death to Christians! 363 00:28:37,951 --> 00:28:39,753 Glory be to Serapis! 364 00:28:58,806 --> 00:29:01,709 Let's listen to her now! 365 00:29:05,271 --> 00:29:06,772 Do you hear any complaint? 366 00:29:07,147 --> 00:29:08,449 No! 367 00:29:09,442 --> 00:29:11,844 This one has lost her voice too! 368 00:29:16,324 --> 00:29:18,125 Their mouths do not speak, 369 00:29:18,409 --> 00:29:20,110 their eyes do not see, 370 00:29:20,390 --> 00:29:22,091 their noses do not smell. 371 00:29:23,414 --> 00:29:27,518 Yet still, pagans come here and kneel before them. 372 00:29:31,964 --> 00:29:33,666 What madness is this? 373 00:29:40,827 --> 00:29:41,928 For the gods! 374 00:30:42,868 --> 00:30:44,269 Medorus! 375 00:30:44,432 --> 00:30:46,734 Take care of your master! Protect him! 376 00:30:50,062 --> 00:30:51,664 God is one! 377 00:31:00,281 --> 00:31:02,083 Death to the pagans! 378 00:31:06,328 --> 00:31:08,431 You! What are you looking at? Get there and fight! 379 00:31:19,362 --> 00:31:20,464 Fight! 380 00:31:22,073 --> 00:31:23,975 Are you deaf? I said fight! 381 00:31:38,235 --> 00:31:39,537 I'm a Christian! 382 00:31:42,719 --> 00:31:44,521 I am a Christian! 383 00:31:46,994 --> 00:31:49,396 I am a Christian! 384 00:31:57,108 --> 00:31:59,711 - God is Christ! - Christ is one! 385 00:31:59,820 --> 00:32:01,822 Death to the pagans! 386 00:32:02,531 --> 00:32:04,232 God is one! 387 00:32:08,683 --> 00:32:10,785 No! No! 388 00:32:12,019 --> 00:32:15,322 The entrance! We must defend the entrance! 389 00:32:15,877 --> 00:32:17,479 What's happening? 390 00:32:17,650 --> 00:32:20,052 Our men are being sent back by the Christians! 391 00:32:37,878 --> 00:32:39,079 Father! 392 00:32:39,755 --> 00:32:42,758 It's alright. It's alright. 393 00:32:45,177 --> 00:32:46,378 What happened? 394 00:32:47,367 --> 00:32:49,069 It was his slave. 395 00:32:51,642 --> 00:32:54,344 Davus, get me some cloth, some water, quickly. 396 00:32:55,709 --> 00:32:56,709 Father... 397 00:33:00,610 --> 00:33:03,112 Synesius, we must get out of here. 398 00:33:03,424 --> 00:33:04,626 Hold him still. 399 00:33:19,378 --> 00:33:20,880 The Parabalani are coming! 400 00:33:33,664 --> 00:33:37,467 God is with us! 401 00:33:38,459 --> 00:33:41,062 Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 402 00:33:41,692 --> 00:33:43,973 - Close the gates! - You know our men are still out there! 403 00:33:44,299 --> 00:33:46,201 May the gods protect them. 404 00:33:46,384 --> 00:33:48,086 Close the gates, I say! 405 00:34:13,808 --> 00:34:18,913 Don't kill him! We'll keep him as a hostage like the others. Did you hear that, everyone? 406 00:34:19,229 --> 00:34:21,331 Any Christian you catch is now a hostage. 407 00:34:23,192 --> 00:34:26,033 Take our wounded to the temple and the Christians down into the cellars. 408 00:34:26,633 --> 00:34:30,637 And anyone with a good eye and a good aim up on the walls. 409 00:34:31,325 --> 00:34:32,325 Olympius. 410 00:34:32,471 --> 00:34:33,973 This one is a Christian. 411 00:34:34,140 --> 00:34:36,142 Yes, and those three as well. 412 00:34:36,538 --> 00:34:39,742 If they are Christians, they will go down to the cellars. 413 00:34:39,979 --> 00:34:41,940 Olympius, if you are going to imprison my brothers 414 00:34:42,014 --> 00:34:44,055 then you are going to have to imprison me with them. 415 00:34:44,358 --> 00:34:46,861 If it is necessary, I will do that. 416 00:34:48,217 --> 00:34:49,719 If anyone... 417 00:34:51,866 --> 00:34:52,867 Anyone! 418 00:34:55,203 --> 00:34:57,806 ...dare lay a finger on one of my brothers... 419 00:34:59,478 --> 00:35:01,580 ...I swear, I'll run him through. 420 00:35:04,483 --> 00:35:05,584 Look! 421 00:35:06,464 --> 00:35:07,866 Look at this! 422 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:16,641 Orestes. 423 00:35:18,351 --> 00:35:19,753 Thank you. 424 00:35:37,642 --> 00:35:39,744 Since when were there so many Christians? 425 00:35:40,978 --> 00:35:42,680 We shall have to negotiate. 426 00:36:14,448 --> 00:36:17,251 What are we waiting for? What can we expect from a Christian emperor? 427 00:36:17,576 --> 00:36:19,278 Except be put to the sword. 428 00:36:19,558 --> 00:36:23,079 I'll settle for still being alive when his verdict arrives. 429 00:36:23,103 --> 00:36:24,104 Here will do. 430 00:36:25,710 --> 00:36:27,912 No one should leave the group, please. 431 00:36:29,672 --> 00:36:31,474 Are they going to pray all night? 432 00:36:37,284 --> 00:36:38,786 Davus. 433 00:36:39,057 --> 00:36:40,458 Stay here. 434 00:36:40,725 --> 00:36:42,026 It's safer here. 435 00:36:47,606 --> 00:36:49,208 Just here would be best. 436 00:37:31,609 --> 00:37:33,511 Synesius! What are you doing? 437 00:37:38,491 --> 00:37:40,193 Lady, sister and mother, 438 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,083 May God bless you and protect you. 439 00:39:05,557 --> 00:39:06,558 Move back! 440 00:39:06,703 --> 00:39:08,906 Slaves, take it to the back. 441 00:39:09,519 --> 00:39:11,121 Slaves, get to the back! 442 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:14,161 The three won't come out. 443 00:39:15,150 --> 00:39:16,851 It's a disaster. 444 00:39:17,027 --> 00:39:18,728 Father, why don't you leave the dice? 445 00:39:20,051 --> 00:39:21,852 Have you been seen today? 446 00:39:22,032 --> 00:39:23,733 - No. - No? 447 00:39:25,368 --> 00:39:27,170 I'll just have a look. 448 00:39:29,435 --> 00:39:30,836 Promise me, my child, that... 449 00:39:31,312 --> 00:39:35,016 when I'm gone, you won't remember this foolish old man. 450 00:39:35,378 --> 00:39:36,479 I promise. 451 00:39:38,715 --> 00:39:41,218 Remember me as I was before. 452 00:39:43,511 --> 00:39:46,214 Before when I could still think and... 453 00:39:47,161 --> 00:39:48,562 I... 454 00:39:48,829 --> 00:39:51,132 I worked with you and... 455 00:39:52,583 --> 00:39:54,585 I listened to you. 456 00:39:55,502 --> 00:39:58,505 How could I have been so wrong? 457 00:40:00,403 --> 00:40:02,405 Seeing you here locked up because of me and... 458 00:40:02,801 --> 00:40:04,203 Father, please. 459 00:40:05,096 --> 00:40:06,897 I wanted you to be free. 460 00:40:15,314 --> 00:40:16,715 I am free. 461 00:40:20,632 --> 00:40:21,633 Hey, Christians. 462 00:40:22,613 --> 00:40:23,714 Christians! 463 00:40:24,386 --> 00:40:27,389 What's that carpenter God of yours doing now? 464 00:40:27,618 --> 00:40:29,920 Building coffins for you, scum! 465 00:40:50,870 --> 00:40:52,572 So, tell me. 466 00:40:52,747 --> 00:40:54,449 Where are the gods now? 467 00:40:56,397 --> 00:40:57,798 Where are they? 468 00:40:59,525 --> 00:41:01,727 - Might as well look for others. - Others? 469 00:41:02,236 --> 00:41:05,039 Which one? The God of the Christians perhaps? 470 00:41:05,572 --> 00:41:07,274 Such boldness! 471 00:41:11,307 --> 00:41:14,410 What do you think, Lady? Am I so bold? 472 00:41:19,649 --> 00:41:21,151 Put the fire out. 473 00:41:38,314 --> 00:41:39,515 You are indeed bold. 474 00:41:41,546 --> 00:41:42,747 Very bold. 475 00:41:43,423 --> 00:41:45,425 I've been thinking about something you said to me. 476 00:41:45,612 --> 00:41:46,713 Me? 477 00:41:46,863 --> 00:41:50,367 That day that you criticized the heavenly mechanism 478 00:41:50,617 --> 00:41:52,519 and you called it 479 00:41:53,745 --> 00:41:56,448 - whimsical. - Yes, although... 480 00:41:56,769 --> 00:41:57,870 Actually... 481 00:41:58,334 --> 00:41:59,835 I was criticizing Ptolemy. 482 00:42:00,523 --> 00:42:02,825 For complicating everything with his epicycles. 483 00:42:04,381 --> 00:42:06,483 But I don't know, perhaps I'm just simple-minded. 484 00:42:07,093 --> 00:42:08,093 No. 485 00:42:09,803 --> 00:42:11,105 No, the heavens 486 00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:12,981 should be simple. 487 00:42:15,330 --> 00:42:17,632 So, am I right or...? 488 00:42:21,898 --> 00:42:23,200 What if... 489 00:42:26,070 --> 00:42:28,872 What if there were a simpler explanation for the wanderers? 490 00:42:30,657 --> 00:42:31,858 There is. 491 00:42:33,264 --> 00:42:36,267 But it is so absurd, so old. 492 00:42:36,913 --> 00:42:38,915 That no one gives it any credit. 493 00:42:39,104 --> 00:42:40,705 What theory is that? 494 00:42:40,980 --> 00:42:42,282 Do you speak of Aristarchus? 495 00:42:42,753 --> 00:42:45,055 Aristarchus maintained 496 00:42:45,256 --> 00:42:46,757 that the Earth moves. 497 00:42:47,758 --> 00:42:50,961 The strange behavior of the wanderers 498 00:42:51,199 --> 00:42:54,302 was nothing more than an optical illusion 499 00:42:54,535 --> 00:42:57,238 caused by our movement 500 00:42:57,455 --> 00:43:00,358 in combination with those around the Sun. 501 00:43:01,521 --> 00:43:04,124 - Heliocentric model. That's right. 502 00:43:04,441 --> 00:43:06,143 The Sun would be in the center 503 00:43:06,318 --> 00:43:09,421 as befits its dignity as King of the Stars. 504 00:43:10,176 --> 00:43:13,979 - Which would make Earth just..another wanderer. - His work was lost 505 00:43:14,243 --> 00:43:16,345 in the fire that destroyed the mother library. 506 00:43:17,162 --> 00:43:21,166 This is why we have to take great care of this place. 507 00:43:21,854 --> 00:43:23,055 Our library 508 00:43:23,210 --> 00:43:27,214 is all that remains of the wisdom of man. 509 00:43:27,797 --> 00:43:29,699 But everytime you drop an object, it... 510 00:43:32,282 --> 00:43:33,283 Who speaks? 511 00:43:34,784 --> 00:43:35,885 Forgive me, Mistress. 512 00:43:39,476 --> 00:43:40,677 I was listening. 513 00:43:41,561 --> 00:43:42,862 Speak up, Davus. 514 00:43:43,543 --> 00:43:45,044 If the Earth is moving, 515 00:43:46,671 --> 00:43:48,873 every time you drop an object, it would... 516 00:43:49,590 --> 00:43:50,991 fall further behind. 517 00:43:53,031 --> 00:43:55,234 And the wind would always blow against us. 518 00:43:56,264 --> 00:43:58,466 And the birds would lose their way in flight. 519 00:43:58,662 --> 00:43:59,863 I told you. 520 00:44:00,017 --> 00:44:03,321 Aristarchus' hypothesis makes no sense at all. 521 00:44:06,899 --> 00:44:09,602 I feel that what you just said can be refuted. 522 00:44:16,596 --> 00:44:18,898 But right now I don't know how. 523 00:44:40,475 --> 00:44:42,477 Make way for the prefect! 524 00:44:42,872 --> 00:44:43,973 Make way! 525 00:44:45,271 --> 00:44:47,373 Make way for the prefect! 526 00:44:47,982 --> 00:44:49,083 Make way! 527 00:45:04,143 --> 00:45:05,845 Listen one and all! 528 00:45:07,063 --> 00:45:10,567 Prepare to hear and obey the verdict of our Emperor. 529 00:45:14,467 --> 00:45:16,969 I, Flavius Theodosius Augustus. 530 00:45:17,177 --> 00:45:20,981 Emperor and Supreme Head of the provinces of the Orient, 531 00:45:21,245 --> 00:45:22,946 having been informed of the events... 532 00:45:23,121 --> 00:45:26,825 which recently took place in the City of Alexandria... 533 00:45:27,083 --> 00:45:28,985 do hereby declare and command 534 00:45:29,168 --> 00:45:31,871 that the insurgents shall be pardoned and freed... 535 00:45:41,890 --> 00:45:43,992 In exchange for my generosity, 536 00:45:44,497 --> 00:45:49,302 the insurgents will abandon the Serapeum and the Library immediately 537 00:45:50,231 --> 00:45:52,734 allowing the Christians to enter 538 00:45:52,942 --> 00:45:54,544 and dispose of the premises 539 00:45:56,696 --> 00:45:57,797 as they see fit. 540 00:46:05,038 --> 00:46:07,841 What are we to expect? They'll destroy everything! 541 00:46:09,938 --> 00:46:11,540 The pagans will leave by the stables. 542 00:46:11,711 --> 00:46:12,711 The books... 543 00:46:12,754 --> 00:46:15,457 From there, you will be escorted to your homes. 544 00:46:16,194 --> 00:46:18,297 Obey, this instant! 545 00:46:23,181 --> 00:46:24,583 Keep it together! 546 00:46:27,247 --> 00:46:29,450 Send half the regiment to the other side. 547 00:46:30,063 --> 00:46:31,565 And send the rest later. 548 00:46:31,731 --> 00:46:32,932 Yes, sir. 549 00:46:34,755 --> 00:46:35,456 Prefect. 550 00:46:35,589 --> 00:46:38,091 We won't be able to contain this lot for long. 551 00:46:40,907 --> 00:46:42,809 For Christ! For Christ! 552 00:46:43,096 --> 00:46:44,798 Stay together! 553 00:46:45,808 --> 00:46:47,109 He Istoria. 554 00:46:47,267 --> 00:46:48,469 He Filosofia. 555 00:46:48,623 --> 00:46:50,325 To Drama. 556 00:46:53,316 --> 00:46:54,917 Leave the lesser works. 557 00:46:55,505 --> 00:46:58,207 - Which are the lesser works? - Just take the important ones. 558 00:46:58,342 --> 00:47:00,324 The important ones! 559 00:47:03,846 --> 00:47:05,247 The soldiers are withdrawing! 560 00:47:29,288 --> 00:47:30,089 Slave! 561 00:47:30,227 --> 00:47:32,547 - Have you seen my mistress? - Just get over here and help! 562 00:47:40,550 --> 00:47:43,653 - They cannot carry so many. - We need more help. 563 00:47:47,745 --> 00:47:50,548 Please, go and get my father out of here. Get him out of here now. 564 00:47:58,589 --> 00:47:59,590 Slave! 565 00:48:00,570 --> 00:48:02,271 Go! Go! Go! Go! 566 00:48:03,594 --> 00:48:05,095 Come on, quickly! 567 00:48:07,869 --> 00:48:10,772 Hypatia, her students are still at the atrium. 568 00:48:10,997 --> 00:48:12,298 Are they out of their minds? 569 00:48:13,916 --> 00:48:16,318 If that's what they want, let them burn. 570 00:48:17,149 --> 00:48:18,149 Come on! 571 00:48:18,505 --> 00:48:19,706 Quickly! 572 00:48:31,851 --> 00:48:32,852 Lady. 573 00:48:34,041 --> 00:48:35,943 Where have you been? Pick up that sack. 574 00:48:36,126 --> 00:48:38,729 - Lady, we have to go. - Pick up the sack! 575 00:48:41,757 --> 00:48:44,059 Why are slaves never around when you need it? 576 00:48:46,344 --> 00:48:48,747 - I was... - Move, move, move your feet, move! 577 00:48:49,994 --> 00:48:50,994 Idiot! 578 00:49:09,806 --> 00:49:11,207 Run! 579 00:49:13,246 --> 00:49:15,348 There is no time! 580 00:49:18,251 --> 00:49:19,252 Lady! 581 00:49:21,275 --> 00:49:22,275 Leave them. 582 00:49:30,556 --> 00:49:31,957 God is one! 583 00:49:44,423 --> 00:49:45,725 Hurry! 584 00:49:55,581 --> 00:49:56,682 Davus! 585 00:49:57,562 --> 00:49:59,163 Where are you going? 586 00:49:59,334 --> 00:50:01,537 - We have to go! - Davus, where are you going? 587 00:50:01,733 --> 00:50:04,235 If he wants to die for our gods, let him. 588 00:50:04,443 --> 00:50:05,567 Please, no. Please don't do this. 589 00:50:05,591 --> 00:50:07,392 - Come on! - Davus! 590 00:50:07,572 --> 00:50:08,773 - Davus, no! - Come on! 591 00:50:36,454 --> 00:50:37,956 God is one! 592 00:51:34,533 --> 00:51:38,537 Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah! 593 00:51:55,075 --> 00:51:56,576 Slave! 594 00:52:01,018 --> 00:52:02,219 Davus! 595 00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:04,722 Davus! 596 00:52:06,544 --> 00:52:08,346 Davus the slavus! 597 00:52:09,673 --> 00:52:11,274 Help me with this! 598 00:52:12,383 --> 00:52:13,484 Help me! 599 00:52:14,260 --> 00:52:18,064 Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah! 600 00:53:22,349 --> 00:53:23,450 Pagan sinners! 601 00:55:12,835 --> 00:55:15,137 The Master's wound is festering. 602 00:55:18,673 --> 00:55:19,774 I know. 603 00:55:23,678 --> 00:55:24,679 I know. 604 00:55:57,150 --> 00:55:58,151 Davus. 605 00:56:24,572 --> 00:56:25,573 Davus! 606 00:57:47,571 --> 00:57:48,572 You're free. 607 00:57:50,491 --> 00:57:51,592 Go. 608 00:58:15,828 --> 00:58:18,031 Hence forth, in Alexandria 609 00:58:18,748 --> 00:58:22,252 only Christian and Jewish worship shall be permitted. 610 00:58:23,128 --> 00:58:24,329 Pagan sacrifices, 611 00:58:25,318 --> 00:58:27,020 worshipping pagan symbols 612 00:58:27,195 --> 00:58:30,798 and visiting pagan temples shall no longer be allowed. 613 00:58:31,365 --> 00:58:34,868 Should anyone commit such an act or dare raise his eyes to the statues 614 00:58:35,848 --> 00:58:40,153 of his former gods, he shall be punished without clemency. 615 00:58:55,035 --> 00:58:59,939 After taking the Library, many pagans were converted and, for a period, Alexandria lived in peace. 616 00:59:00,352 --> 00:59:05,257 Hypatia continued teaching and researching, and her former students held key posts in the social elite. 617 00:59:06,504 --> 00:59:11,509 The Empire was forever split in two. Many Christians saw this as a sign of the world's ending and decided 618 00:59:12,030 --> 00:59:14,733 to prepare by practicing a more holy life. 619 00:59:15,888 --> 00:59:21,894 The order of Parabalani monks was charged to patrol the streets and maintain Christian morality... 620 00:59:24,230 --> 00:59:27,233 ...now disturbed by the presence of the Jews. 621 00:59:33,614 --> 00:59:36,617 The Library, years later. 622 01:01:48,853 --> 01:01:50,555 Damn Jews! 623 01:01:50,730 --> 01:01:51,731 Damn Jews! 624 01:01:57,612 --> 01:02:00,715 They're just a bunch of good-for-nothing thugs! Pack animals! 625 01:02:01,470 --> 01:02:04,072 Joran, my dear friend, calm down. 626 01:02:05,328 --> 01:02:07,630 Let Bishop Cyril speak in his own defense. 627 01:02:09,290 --> 01:02:10,491 Prefect, 628 01:02:10,750 --> 01:02:12,452 our blessed Parabalani, 629 01:02:13,461 --> 01:02:15,763 whom he has just called. 630 01:02:16,171 --> 01:02:17,673 Beasts of Burden, 631 01:02:18,362 --> 01:02:21,164 devote themselves true enough to carrying burdens... 632 01:02:21,594 --> 01:02:24,497 Crippled, the sick, the lepers... 633 01:02:24,826 --> 01:02:26,027 And stones! 634 01:02:26,181 --> 01:02:27,683 Prefect, they carry stones. 635 01:02:27,850 --> 01:02:29,291 And now, they burst into the theatre 636 01:02:29,414 --> 01:02:33,117 and they stone us, knowing we will do nothing to defend ourselves. 637 01:02:33,377 --> 01:02:35,279 Because it is the Sabbath! 638 01:02:35,670 --> 01:02:37,472 On the Sabbath you should honor God 639 01:02:37,652 --> 01:02:40,254 in your synagogues instead of stuffing yourselves 640 01:02:40,467 --> 01:02:41,968 with sweets at the theatre. 641 01:02:42,969 --> 01:02:44,771 That is why the stones fell upon you. 642 01:02:45,993 --> 01:02:49,797 Prefect, do you hear that? Now, he's threatening us. This is too much. 643 01:02:50,059 --> 01:02:53,663 Friends, there are more things that unite us than divide us. 644 01:02:53,917 --> 01:02:55,919 We are brothers! We're all brothers. 645 01:02:56,733 --> 01:02:58,435 Where would you Christians be 646 01:02:58,610 --> 01:03:01,413 without the Jews? Jesus was a Jew! 647 01:03:01,738 --> 01:03:03,940 Jesus was a Jew! 648 01:03:35,418 --> 01:03:37,219 There is..something I find 649 01:03:37,399 --> 01:03:39,300 disturbing in what you've told me. 650 01:03:39,692 --> 01:03:41,694 - What? Well, 651 01:03:43,342 --> 01:03:46,144 Why does Cyril speak of cleaning up the city? 652 01:03:46,783 --> 01:03:48,885 Is he not satisfied with what he already has? 653 01:03:49,180 --> 01:03:51,182 I think he's just trying to frighten the Jews. 654 01:03:51,475 --> 01:03:53,176 But why say it in front of you? 655 01:03:53,769 --> 01:03:57,573 What if really he was addressing you and not them? 656 01:03:57,939 --> 01:03:58,540 Me? 657 01:03:58,878 --> 01:04:01,481 Why? I'm as much a Christian as he is. 658 01:04:01,589 --> 01:04:02,289 Yes, but you forget 659 01:04:02,424 --> 01:04:05,827 that many of us from your circle are not. 660 01:04:06,177 --> 01:04:08,580 At a full sail, prefect. 661 01:04:09,618 --> 01:04:10,619 Letís go. 662 01:04:13,893 --> 01:04:16,396 -Aspasius, you ready? Yes, mistress. 663 01:04:16,604 --> 01:04:20,608 I would like you to take the sack and climb to the top of the mast. 664 01:04:34,747 --> 01:04:36,949 And now, Lady, 665 01:04:37,145 --> 01:04:39,848 Will you finally tell me what the point of all this is? 666 01:04:41,629 --> 01:04:42,830 When Aspasius 667 01:04:43,088 --> 01:04:45,891 drops the sack, the boat will be moving forwards. 668 01:04:46,216 --> 01:04:47,518 Therefore, the sack 669 01:04:47,677 --> 01:04:49,378 won't fall at the foot of the mast, 670 01:04:49,554 --> 01:04:54,459 but will fall further back. I would say about... 671 01:04:58,729 --> 01:05:00,030 About here. 672 01:05:00,189 --> 01:05:01,891 And what is so special about that? 673 01:05:17,289 --> 01:05:18,991 - Yes! - But you were wrong! 674 01:05:19,270 --> 01:05:21,172 Yes, but this is the definitive proof! 675 01:05:21,355 --> 01:05:22,857 It's definitive. The sack... 676 01:05:24,484 --> 01:05:26,886 The sack behaved as if the boat was stationary. 677 01:05:27,299 --> 01:05:29,001 What does that mean? 678 01:05:30,428 --> 01:05:31,829 I don't know. 679 01:05:33,138 --> 01:05:35,541 But the same principle could be applied to the Earth. 680 01:05:36,475 --> 01:05:40,479 It could be moving around the Sun without us realizing. 681 01:05:42,314 --> 01:05:44,617 -Aristarchus. Exactly. 682 01:05:46,172 --> 01:05:48,975 Why do you torment yourself with that, Lady? 683 01:05:49,822 --> 01:05:52,124 Ptolemy's not perfect but... 684 01:05:52,428 --> 01:05:53,428 It works. 685 01:05:54,201 --> 01:05:56,103 Orestes, but you were the one who... 686 01:05:57,329 --> 01:06:00,432 A few years ago, you weren't so pragmatic, Prefect. 687 01:06:01,500 --> 01:06:03,902 Well, a few years ago, I talked first and thought later. 688 01:06:23,501 --> 01:06:25,202 I have Cepheus third. 689 01:06:28,193 --> 01:06:29,294 37. 690 01:06:30,174 --> 01:06:31,375 48. 691 01:06:34,971 --> 01:06:35,772 Venus and Mars 692 01:06:35,909 --> 01:06:37,911 share a house in Aquarius. 693 01:06:42,583 --> 01:06:46,286 My father would have celebrated such a conjunction with a good wine. 694 01:06:48,213 --> 01:06:50,315 - The stars will not fall. - Oh really? 695 01:06:50,716 --> 01:06:53,018 No, because they're fixed to the lid of the chest. 696 01:06:53,531 --> 01:06:56,734 The lid would open in two halves and then Jesus will appear. 697 01:06:57,806 --> 01:06:59,608 What chest are you talking about? 698 01:07:00,830 --> 01:07:04,534 Don't you know that the universe is a gigantic chest? 699 01:07:04,792 --> 01:07:08,596 Heaven is the lid on top and the Earth, the ground... 700 01:07:08,859 --> 01:07:13,163 They haven't told this fool that the Earth is round. 701 01:07:14,489 --> 01:07:15,891 The Earth is flat. 702 01:07:16,157 --> 01:07:17,759 Your head is flat. 703 01:07:18,242 --> 01:07:19,343 Read the Scriptures! 704 01:07:19,599 --> 01:07:21,200 If the Earth is round, 705 01:07:21,475 --> 01:07:24,278 why don't the people at the bottom fall off? 706 01:07:27,418 --> 01:07:29,320 And what about the ones on the sides? 707 01:07:29,609 --> 01:07:31,210 Why don't they slide off? 708 01:07:33,466 --> 01:07:34,968 Think about that. 709 01:07:36,595 --> 01:07:37,796 Davus knows. 710 01:07:38,680 --> 01:07:39,681 Hey, brother. 711 01:07:39,931 --> 01:07:40,931 What do you say? 712 01:07:40,974 --> 01:07:44,177 Is the Earth flat or round? 713 01:07:47,542 --> 01:07:49,544 Only God knows those things. 714 01:07:55,363 --> 01:07:56,464 Leave them on the ground! 715 01:07:56,719 --> 01:07:58,721 Leave them on the ground! That's where they belong. 716 01:07:59,221 --> 01:08:01,023 Lady, you must not lose heart. 717 01:08:01,724 --> 01:08:03,726 Today on the boat you made great progress. 718 01:08:04,538 --> 01:08:08,042 Why do the wanderers bury their brightness? 719 01:08:08,292 --> 01:08:10,595 So unexpectedly. 720 01:08:12,046 --> 01:08:13,547 And what is worse, 721 01:08:14,548 --> 01:08:16,050 why does the Sun... 722 01:08:17,051 --> 01:08:20,154 Why does it change size from summer to winter? 723 01:08:20,909 --> 01:08:22,210 Perhaps because... 724 01:08:23,099 --> 01:08:24,801 Sometimes it is nearer... 725 01:08:24,976 --> 01:08:26,678 And other times it is further away. 726 01:08:28,312 --> 01:08:29,312 But Aspasius, 727 01:08:30,397 --> 01:08:31,397 watch... 728 01:08:31,649 --> 01:08:35,452 According to Aristarchus, the Sun must be 729 01:08:35,716 --> 01:08:37,517 at the center of everything. 730 01:08:38,636 --> 01:08:40,437 With us, the Earth, 731 01:08:41,033 --> 01:08:43,936 traveling in a circle around it. 732 01:08:45,934 --> 01:08:46,935 Therefore, 733 01:08:47,289 --> 01:08:48,891 and this is the key, 734 01:08:50,521 --> 01:08:53,825 we're always at exactly... 735 01:08:55,110 --> 01:08:56,611 the same... 736 01:08:58,446 --> 01:08:59,648 distance. 737 01:09:00,219 --> 01:09:02,621 Now, if as you just said, we accept the changes in distance, 738 01:09:03,347 --> 01:09:05,049 then we are forced to add 739 01:09:06,162 --> 01:09:08,164 an epicycle to the Earth's orbit. 740 01:09:08,352 --> 01:09:12,556 So it is going to be nearer and then it's going to be further away. 741 01:09:13,565 --> 01:09:15,768 But now we fall into the same trap as Ptolemy. 742 01:09:16,381 --> 01:09:17,661 - Circle upon circles. - Exactly! 743 01:09:18,988 --> 01:09:22,792 So I just do not know how to resolve this conflict. 744 01:09:27,747 --> 01:09:29,648 I mean, the only thing we could do is... 745 01:09:32,126 --> 01:09:35,730 displace the sun from the center and well... 746 01:09:35,984 --> 01:09:38,286 not to have a center. 747 01:09:38,486 --> 01:09:40,088 It breaks my heart, Aspasius. 748 01:09:42,970 --> 01:09:44,071 So tell me, what do I do? 749 01:09:47,767 --> 01:09:49,468 Rest, lady. 750 01:10:02,260 --> 01:10:04,062 Parabolani! 751 01:10:04,658 --> 01:10:06,861 - Parabolani! - What is happening? 752 01:10:07,056 --> 01:10:09,859 Parabolani, quick! Help! 753 01:10:10,393 --> 01:10:11,995 St. Alexander's on fire! 754 01:10:12,478 --> 01:10:13,579 It's a fire. 755 01:10:15,710 --> 01:10:16,812 Come on! 756 01:10:19,882 --> 01:10:23,786 Get water! Get the bucket! Quick! Take this! 757 01:10:26,764 --> 01:10:27,764 Hurry! 758 01:10:28,849 --> 01:10:30,250 Quick! 759 01:10:33,436 --> 01:10:35,238 Come on, come on! 760 01:10:42,404 --> 01:10:43,605 Parabolani! 761 01:10:43,864 --> 01:10:46,266 Parabolani! 762 01:10:46,574 --> 01:10:48,176 Parabolani, quick! 763 01:10:50,850 --> 01:10:52,351 Where's the fire? 764 01:10:54,291 --> 01:10:56,493 Where's the fire? 765 01:11:05,343 --> 01:11:06,544 Jews! It's a trap. 766 01:11:06,804 --> 01:11:08,205 It's a trap! 767 01:12:30,844 --> 01:12:32,346 Christians, all. 768 01:12:33,556 --> 01:12:35,859 Last night was a night to deplore. 769 01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:39,641 Now I say to you. 770 01:12:41,689 --> 01:12:44,192 Grieve no longer for our dead brothers. 771 01:12:45,755 --> 01:12:47,257 Weep not. 772 01:12:50,656 --> 01:12:52,758 Shed your tears for the others, 773 01:12:53,784 --> 01:12:55,887 for they are executioners. 774 01:13:04,628 --> 01:13:07,631 Yes, yes. 775 01:13:07,860 --> 01:13:10,763 Weep for them. For those who have done this, 776 01:13:11,406 --> 01:13:12,908 Know not of God, 777 01:13:13,700 --> 01:13:15,903 not of love, not of piety. 778 01:13:16,828 --> 01:13:18,530 They know not 779 01:13:18,653 --> 01:13:20,205 because it is they 780 01:13:22,354 --> 01:13:25,757 who repeat the words of the Scriptures with no understanding at all. 781 01:13:27,464 --> 01:13:30,367 It is they who saw only a man 782 01:13:30,592 --> 01:13:33,395 when the Son of God was standing in front of them. 783 01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:35,122 And it is they who in 784 01:13:35,284 --> 01:13:39,188 their blindness, mocked him and crucified him. 785 01:13:43,834 --> 01:13:44,936 Yes. 786 01:13:45,294 --> 01:13:48,697 Weep! Weep for the Jews, 787 01:13:49,048 --> 01:13:51,650 those evil butchers of our Lord. 788 01:13:54,261 --> 01:13:55,662 Because God... 789 01:13:57,389 --> 01:14:00,692 because God, God, God has already condemned them. 790 01:14:00,934 --> 01:14:02,136 It is God's will.. 791 01:14:02,707 --> 01:14:04,509 That they live as slaves 792 01:14:05,314 --> 01:14:08,717 cursed and exiled until the end of time. 793 01:14:08,964 --> 01:14:10,966 Cursed and exiled! 794 01:14:13,030 --> 01:14:14,331 Cursed and exiled! 795 01:14:17,305 --> 01:14:19,707 Cursed and exiled! 796 01:14:43,373 --> 01:14:45,375 Lady, do not stop, Lady. 797 01:15:34,673 --> 01:15:36,975 Now all the Jews will want to retaliate. 798 01:15:37,280 --> 01:15:39,482 I'm afraid you don't understand what's really happening. 799 01:15:40,721 --> 01:15:44,625 When this is all over, there will be no more Jews in Alexandria. 800 01:15:51,773 --> 01:15:53,775 I'm sorry for bursting in like this. 801 01:15:54,276 --> 01:15:56,878 Lady, you should not have risked coming here. 802 01:15:57,509 --> 01:15:59,111 Where are the troops? 803 01:16:00,532 --> 01:16:02,334 Why are there no more soldiers on the streets? 804 01:16:02,514 --> 01:16:05,817 No army could contain that mob. The entire city is in a frenzy. 805 01:16:08,770 --> 01:16:12,174 He's calling for the annihilation of women and children. 806 01:16:13,044 --> 01:16:14,146 A bishop! 807 01:16:14,296 --> 01:16:16,498 - A Christian! Then lock him up. 808 01:16:20,136 --> 01:16:21,137 Prefect. 809 01:16:22,117 --> 01:16:23,718 You should have him arrested. 810 01:16:28,059 --> 01:16:29,060 It's not so easy. 811 01:16:29,624 --> 01:16:30,725 Lady, 812 01:16:31,292 --> 01:16:34,695 Cyril knows they both share the same faith. 813 01:16:36,402 --> 01:16:38,804 That places our Prefect in a very... 814 01:16:39,530 --> 01:16:40,731 Awkward position. 815 01:16:41,198 --> 01:16:44,101 If he defends the Jews, half the city will rise up 816 01:16:44,326 --> 01:16:45,527 against this government. 817 01:16:47,246 --> 01:16:48,247 I see. 818 01:16:50,582 --> 01:16:52,884 If you choose to do nothing though, 819 01:16:53,918 --> 01:16:55,820 I believe Cyril will 820 01:16:56,317 --> 01:17:00,321 continue to do the same thing over and over again until... 821 01:17:00,905 --> 01:17:03,258 until there is no one left in this city. 822 01:17:03,357 --> 01:17:05,708 No people for this government to govern. 823 01:17:19,257 --> 01:17:20,858 How naive of me... 824 01:17:23,948 --> 01:17:26,851 How naive of me to think we have finally changed. 825 01:18:10,245 --> 01:18:11,746 Jews out! 826 01:18:33,289 --> 01:18:34,990 First, they kill them... 827 01:18:35,582 --> 01:18:37,183 Then they bury them. 828 01:18:49,451 --> 01:18:51,152 The Bishop of Cyrene. 829 01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:54,243 - What is he doing here? I'll find out. 830 01:18:56,749 --> 01:18:59,151 It's my little library of Alexandria. 831 01:19:04,152 --> 01:19:05,954 It's where I teach the children. 832 01:19:08,740 --> 01:19:10,241 An Apollonian cone. 833 01:19:10,721 --> 01:19:13,824 Yes, I built it to teach them about the four curves. 834 01:19:14,058 --> 01:19:15,159 The Circle. 835 01:19:17,082 --> 01:19:18,484 The ellipse. 836 01:19:21,357 --> 01:19:22,958 Orestes should really be here by now. 837 01:19:23,129 --> 01:19:24,531 Parabola. 838 01:19:25,424 --> 01:19:26,925 And a hyperbola. 839 01:19:28,760 --> 01:19:30,261 It's truly beautiful. 840 01:19:31,262 --> 01:19:33,965 You know, I often look at it and I always wonder 841 01:19:34,391 --> 01:19:36,293 why does the circle coexist with such 842 01:19:36,581 --> 01:19:38,283 impure shapes? 843 01:19:41,794 --> 01:19:43,796 What I'd give to sit here and listen to you again. 844 01:19:44,192 --> 01:19:45,594 I'd bore you. 845 01:19:46,069 --> 01:19:47,766 It's been a long time since I've done anything but 846 01:19:47,790 --> 01:19:49,441 beat my head against the stone. 847 01:19:50,761 --> 01:19:53,364 Anyhow, there are more important matters at hand. 848 01:19:53,889 --> 01:19:54,889 Forgive me. 849 01:20:07,549 --> 01:20:09,751 Two Christians in the hands of a heathen. 850 01:20:09,843 --> 01:20:11,244 It's an outrage! 851 01:20:19,018 --> 01:20:20,320 It's an outrage! 852 01:20:41,749 --> 01:20:45,252 - How many left? I don't know but it smells. 853 01:20:51,968 --> 01:20:53,169 Ammonius. 854 01:20:54,679 --> 01:20:56,180 Does God speak with you? 855 01:20:58,224 --> 01:20:59,225 All the time. 856 01:21:00,518 --> 01:21:03,721 Ammonius this, Ammonius that. Ammonius, Ammonius, Ammonius. 857 01:21:04,897 --> 01:21:06,298 Today, he spoke to me 858 01:21:06,462 --> 01:21:09,665 so quickly, I had to ask him: "slow down". 859 01:21:12,300 --> 01:21:13,702 Tell me something. 860 01:21:15,429 --> 01:21:16,830 Do you ever think we're mistaken? 861 01:21:19,912 --> 01:21:20,912 Why? 862 01:21:26,690 --> 01:21:28,191 I was forgiven... 863 01:21:31,487 --> 01:21:33,789 But now, I can't forgive. 864 01:21:35,135 --> 01:21:36,236 Forgive? 865 01:21:37,325 --> 01:21:38,427 Who? 866 01:21:40,036 --> 01:21:41,137 The Jews? 867 01:21:44,833 --> 01:21:46,835 Well, Jesus pardoned them on the cross. 868 01:21:49,734 --> 01:21:51,135 Jesus was God 869 01:21:51,923 --> 01:21:54,426 and only He can show such clemency. 870 01:21:55,259 --> 01:21:58,062 How dare you compare yourself to God? 871 01:22:02,350 --> 01:22:03,351 Brother. 872 01:22:07,042 --> 01:22:08,744 We are still alive. 873 01:22:09,962 --> 01:22:11,163 Why? 874 01:22:11,943 --> 01:22:12,943 Because it was. 875 01:22:12,986 --> 01:22:15,489 His will to save us from the stones. 876 01:22:18,095 --> 01:22:20,598 God wants us here, doing what we do. 877 01:22:21,953 --> 01:22:23,855 Don't you believe in that anymore? 878 01:22:41,034 --> 01:22:42,034 Beloved. 879 01:22:48,959 --> 01:22:50,460 Cyril is a very proud man. 880 01:22:51,253 --> 01:22:55,257 He'll agree to meet, but he won't discuss the Jews, he'll only discuss peace. 881 01:22:57,926 --> 01:22:58,727 Peace? 882 01:22:58,865 --> 01:23:02,569 My suggestion, as your humble advisor in this affair, 883 01:23:03,035 --> 01:23:04,737 is for you to accept. 884 01:23:05,747 --> 01:23:07,048 Let peace be foremost. 885 01:23:09,083 --> 01:23:11,385 - Lady, what do you think? - Well, I... 886 01:23:12,525 --> 01:23:14,426 I don't think it's very encouraging. 887 01:23:15,027 --> 01:23:16,929 Why would he want to come and see Orestes 888 01:23:17,112 --> 01:23:20,115 - without any concrete proposals? - There is something else. 889 01:23:21,909 --> 01:23:23,310 He won't come to you. 890 01:23:24,202 --> 01:23:25,904 Demands he meet you in the Library, 891 01:23:26,496 --> 01:23:27,898 during the Sunday service. 892 01:23:28,269 --> 01:23:30,572 In the Library? Why? 893 01:23:30,980 --> 01:23:34,684 Only Christians are being permitted to enter the Library since it was stormed. 894 01:23:34,942 --> 01:23:36,944 It is a provocation! 895 01:23:40,051 --> 01:23:41,553 Allow me to suggest. 896 01:23:42,867 --> 01:23:44,769 If you consider your presence 897 01:23:44,952 --> 01:23:46,353 so essential 898 01:23:47,038 --> 01:23:48,940 why not let yourself be baptized? 899 01:23:51,938 --> 01:23:53,239 The majority of us here, 900 01:23:53,398 --> 01:23:56,501 beginning with our Prefect, have accepted Christ. 901 01:23:57,047 --> 01:23:58,749 Why not the rest of you? 902 01:23:59,341 --> 01:24:01,944 It's only a matter of time and you know it! 903 01:24:02,157 --> 01:24:03,358 Really? 904 01:24:04,660 --> 01:24:06,862 It is just a matter of time? 905 01:24:07,266 --> 01:24:09,068 Well, excuse me, 906 01:24:09,351 --> 01:24:11,654 honored member, but as far as I am aware, 907 01:24:11,854 --> 01:24:13,756 your God has not yet proved himself 908 01:24:13,939 --> 01:24:17,042 to be more just or more merciful than his predecessors. 909 01:24:17,276 --> 01:24:17,577 Lady. 910 01:24:17,693 --> 01:24:21,697 Is it really just a question of time before I accept your faith? 911 01:24:23,115 --> 01:24:24,516 Why, then, 912 01:24:24,888 --> 01:24:26,489 should this assembly 913 01:24:27,077 --> 01:24:30,380 accept the counsel of someone who admittedly 914 01:24:31,248 --> 01:24:33,951 believes in absolutely nothing? 915 01:24:36,149 --> 01:24:37,851 I believe in philosophy. 916 01:24:41,050 --> 01:24:42,351 Philosophy. 917 01:24:43,135 --> 01:24:44,837 Just what we need 918 01:24:45,324 --> 01:24:46,926 in times like these. 919 01:24:48,036 --> 01:24:49,337 Enough! 920 01:25:00,443 --> 01:25:02,746 All these years, I've been studying. 921 01:25:04,615 --> 01:25:07,017 With absolutely no life of my own. 922 01:25:07,743 --> 01:25:12,147 And I wonder, what was the point? 923 01:25:12,435 --> 01:25:15,739 Oh, forget about what was said today. 924 01:25:18,796 --> 01:25:20,898 Is this all life holds for me? 925 01:25:23,071 --> 01:25:24,272 What else? 926 01:25:25,782 --> 01:25:28,084 I doubt anyone could see you as a... 927 01:25:28,284 --> 01:25:29,585 devoted wife 928 01:25:29,744 --> 01:25:30,845 and mother. 929 01:25:31,934 --> 01:25:33,035 I think... 930 01:25:33,601 --> 01:25:36,905 I think everyone in the city knows the story of the handkerchief. 931 01:25:41,630 --> 01:25:42,631 So... 932 01:25:47,261 --> 01:25:48,963 My father loved a woman. 933 01:25:49,972 --> 01:25:51,173 Even he... 934 01:25:52,788 --> 01:25:54,289 Who have I ever loved? 935 01:25:58,105 --> 01:25:59,105 Except you, 936 01:25:59,148 --> 01:26:00,449 Libanius. 937 01:26:11,973 --> 01:26:13,474 If I could just... 938 01:26:17,291 --> 01:26:19,193 Just unravel this... 939 01:26:19,376 --> 01:26:21,478 Just a little bit more. 940 01:26:25,737 --> 01:26:29,240 And just get a little closer to the answer, then... 941 01:26:29,490 --> 01:26:31,492 Then I would... 942 01:26:33,244 --> 01:26:35,747 Then I would go to my grave a happy woman. 943 01:26:38,249 --> 01:26:39,350 Why? 944 01:26:40,022 --> 01:26:42,024 Why does that mean so much to you? 945 01:26:44,923 --> 01:26:46,324 Right now, 946 01:26:47,321 --> 01:26:51,225 this very second, the whole Earth could be moving... 947 01:26:51,491 --> 01:26:53,693 And no one realizes it. 948 01:26:53,994 --> 01:26:55,896 Except you and me. 949 01:26:56,080 --> 01:26:58,883 Believe me Lady, it's best no one does. 950 01:27:00,146 --> 01:27:03,449 Do you really not think it important? 951 01:27:03,691 --> 01:27:06,294 I don't understand why you insist on moving the ground we walk on. 952 01:27:06,924 --> 01:27:08,672 Well, you saw for yourself what happened on the boat. 953 01:27:08,696 --> 01:27:12,300 Yes, I did. But that does not necessarily mean the Earth moves. 954 01:27:12,972 --> 01:27:14,473 What if it does? 955 01:27:14,849 --> 01:27:17,151 Hypatia, look around you. 956 01:27:17,351 --> 01:27:18,753 Death, 957 01:27:18,915 --> 01:27:20,016 horror 958 01:27:20,166 --> 01:27:21,567 destruction. 959 01:27:21,730 --> 01:27:24,633 If the stars move in a circle 960 01:27:25,171 --> 01:27:27,774 why would they share their perfection with us? 961 01:27:30,593 --> 01:27:32,295 So we don't move... 962 01:27:32,470 --> 01:27:33,972 In a circle. 963 01:27:34,034 --> 01:27:35,735 We don't move... 964 01:27:39,352 --> 01:27:40,753 Circle. 965 01:27:41,959 --> 01:27:44,261 We do not move in a circle. 966 01:27:53,428 --> 01:27:54,930 Ever since Plato... 967 01:27:55,097 --> 01:27:59,001 All of them: Aristarchus, Hipparchus, Ptolemy... 968 01:27:59,476 --> 01:28:02,479 They have all tried to reconcile their observations 969 01:28:02,708 --> 01:28:04,911 with circular orbits but... 970 01:28:05,107 --> 01:28:07,810 What if another shape is hiding in the heavens? 971 01:28:08,026 --> 01:28:08,726 Another shape? 972 01:28:08,965 --> 01:28:13,069 Lady, there is no shape purer than the circle. You taught us that. 973 01:28:13,344 --> 01:28:16,347 I know, but suppose, just suppose the 974 01:28:16,680 --> 01:28:18,082 "purity" of the circle 975 01:28:18,245 --> 01:28:21,648 has blinded us from seeing anything beyond it. 976 01:28:21,894 --> 01:28:25,397 In the same way that the glare of the sun blind us from actually seeing the stars. 977 01:28:25,961 --> 01:28:27,963 I must begin all over with... 978 01:28:28,254 --> 01:28:30,556 with new eyes. 979 01:28:31,382 --> 01:28:34,385 I must rethink everything. I have to rethink everything. 980 01:28:49,317 --> 01:28:52,620 Reading from the first letter of Paul to Timothy. 981 01:28:52,967 --> 01:28:56,971 I desire, therefore, that everywhere 982 01:28:57,450 --> 01:29:00,553 men should lift up holy hands in prayer 983 01:29:00,786 --> 01:29:04,290 without anger or disputing. 984 01:29:05,270 --> 01:29:07,072 In like manner, 985 01:29:07,772 --> 01:29:09,774 I desire women 986 01:29:10,588 --> 01:29:12,390 to dress modestly, 987 01:29:13,195 --> 01:29:15,097 with decency and propriety... 988 01:29:15,280 --> 01:29:17,782 Not with braided hair 989 01:29:19,034 --> 01:29:21,036 or gold or pearls 990 01:29:21,224 --> 01:29:24,427 or expensive clothes, 991 01:29:25,916 --> 01:29:28,218 - but with good deeds. - Why is he reading this passage? 992 01:29:28,418 --> 01:29:32,923 I don't know, prefect. I assure you it is not the one we agreed upon. 993 01:29:33,736 --> 01:29:35,738 That a woman learn 994 01:29:35,926 --> 01:29:39,429 in quietness and in full submission. I do not permit a woman 995 01:29:39,679 --> 01:29:43,283 to teach or to have authority over a man, 996 01:29:45,936 --> 01:29:47,537 but to be 997 01:29:48,126 --> 01:29:49,827 in silence. 998 01:29:56,259 --> 01:29:58,461 This is the word of God! 999 01:29:58,761 --> 01:30:00,063 Amen. 1000 01:30:00,742 --> 01:30:01,743 Amen. 1001 01:30:03,870 --> 01:30:05,272 Jesus himself 1002 01:30:05,851 --> 01:30:07,853 knew this when he 1003 01:30:08,041 --> 01:30:11,344 entrusted his holy legacy to twelve men. 1004 01:30:12,316 --> 01:30:13,517 Men. 1005 01:30:13,985 --> 01:30:15,886 Not a woman among them. 1006 01:30:17,113 --> 01:30:18,514 And yet, 1007 01:30:19,823 --> 01:30:22,526 I know of some in Alexandria 1008 01:30:22,743 --> 01:30:25,346 who admire and even trust in the word of a woman. 1009 01:30:27,227 --> 01:30:29,229 The philosopher Hypatia. 1010 01:30:30,459 --> 01:30:33,062 A woman who declared, 1011 01:30:33,275 --> 01:30:35,978 in public, her ungodliness. 1012 01:30:40,365 --> 01:30:41,366 A witch! 1013 01:30:44,848 --> 01:30:46,150 Dignitaries, 1014 01:30:46,725 --> 01:30:51,430 it is time for you all to reconcile yourselves with Christ. 1015 01:31:02,262 --> 01:31:04,264 This is the word of God. 1016 01:31:06,849 --> 01:31:09,852 Kneel before it and embrace its truths. 1017 01:31:52,520 --> 01:31:53,721 Kneel. 1018 01:31:55,127 --> 01:31:57,029 Is he not going to kneel? 1019 01:32:00,236 --> 01:32:02,538 Is he not going to kneel? 1020 01:32:11,080 --> 01:32:12,281 Kneel! 1021 01:32:12,436 --> 01:32:14,338 Kneel! 1022 01:32:30,058 --> 01:32:31,959 Sinner! 1023 01:32:33,706 --> 01:32:35,308 I am a Christian! 1024 01:32:36,418 --> 01:32:38,167 - I am a Christian! - You're not a Christian! 1025 01:32:38,191 --> 01:32:40,393 I'm as Christian as you are. 1026 01:32:41,005 --> 01:32:43,408 Make way! Make way for the prefect! 1027 01:32:44,342 --> 01:32:45,443 Make way! 1028 01:32:56,750 --> 01:32:58,752 I am a baptized Christian! 1029 01:32:59,253 --> 01:33:01,355 I am a baptized Christian! 1030 01:33:05,509 --> 01:33:07,511 I will kill you! 1031 01:33:12,704 --> 01:33:14,206 I am as Christian as you. 1032 01:33:15,207 --> 01:33:17,109 I am as Christian as you are. 1033 01:34:02,545 --> 01:34:04,847 I mean, how could such a thing be possible? 1034 01:34:05,256 --> 01:34:07,358 The culprit has been executed. 1035 01:34:07,967 --> 01:34:09,873 I would like you to take me to the prefect immediately. 1036 01:34:09,897 --> 01:34:11,748 Lady, he himself gave the order 1037 01:34:11,929 --> 01:34:14,832 for you to be confined to the house until further notice. 1038 01:34:15,370 --> 01:34:18,273 At the moment your presence on the street is not advisable. 1039 01:34:19,854 --> 01:34:20,955 For what reason? 1040 01:34:24,128 --> 01:34:27,131 Cyril has made some serious accusations against you. 1041 01:34:29,655 --> 01:34:30,856 And, um... 1042 01:34:31,532 --> 01:34:33,634 What does he accuse me of? 1043 01:34:34,452 --> 01:34:35,853 Ungodliness... 1044 01:34:36,641 --> 01:34:38,243 And witchcraft. 1045 01:34:44,044 --> 01:34:45,346 I see. 1046 01:34:56,870 --> 01:34:58,972 Is something bothering you, Lady? 1047 01:34:59,893 --> 01:35:01,194 No. 1048 01:35:04,794 --> 01:35:07,196 Why don't you tell me what's worrying you? 1049 01:35:30,341 --> 01:35:32,243 Prefect, why don't you bite on it? 1050 01:35:34,616 --> 01:35:35,617 Speak. 1051 01:35:35,867 --> 01:35:38,069 The Bishop of Cyrene wishes to see you. 1052 01:35:40,976 --> 01:35:41,977 All of you... 1053 01:35:42,123 --> 01:35:43,725 Prefect, the wound is not yet closed. 1054 01:35:43,895 --> 01:35:46,298 Get out. Get out! 1055 01:35:50,882 --> 01:35:52,984 All of you out! Out! 1056 01:36:02,456 --> 01:36:04,157 Well, that went well. 1057 01:36:05,792 --> 01:36:08,495 You think I had a part in this? 1058 01:36:08,816 --> 01:36:10,773 Would I show my face here if I wanted to betray you? 1059 01:36:10,797 --> 01:36:14,601 - Are you blind? I was, yes, I was blind. 1060 01:36:15,802 --> 01:36:16,903 Well, it's my head, 1061 01:36:17,053 --> 01:36:19,556 he's wanted all along, it's me... 1062 01:36:19,765 --> 01:36:21,767 That snake is after. 1063 01:36:22,580 --> 01:36:24,982 This government! 1064 01:36:25,396 --> 01:36:26,997 This city! 1065 01:36:28,732 --> 01:36:30,033 Now, listen. 1066 01:36:31,964 --> 01:36:33,666 - War is brewing. I know. 1067 01:36:34,571 --> 01:36:35,972 I know. 1068 01:36:38,533 --> 01:36:41,235 Then swear your loyalty to me. 1069 01:36:43,330 --> 01:36:45,231 To the Empire. Do it! 1070 01:36:48,439 --> 01:36:50,441 Condemn him or get out. 1071 01:36:57,197 --> 01:36:58,799 I will do it. 1072 01:36:59,700 --> 01:37:02,403 On my knees, if necessary. 1073 01:37:03,141 --> 01:37:04,843 And not only that. 1074 01:37:05,331 --> 01:37:07,933 In a few days, I can gather other bishops from the province 1075 01:37:08,042 --> 01:37:10,644 and amongst from the desert all against Cyril. 1076 01:37:21,910 --> 01:37:23,912 First, I must ask you a question. 1077 01:37:25,246 --> 01:37:27,449 Orestes, do you believe in Jesus? 1078 01:37:28,375 --> 01:37:29,075 Do I what? 1079 01:37:29,208 --> 01:37:30,910 - Do you believe in Jesus? - Do I what?! 1080 01:37:31,085 --> 01:37:33,187 Are you a true Christian? 1081 01:37:33,380 --> 01:37:36,282 Or did you like so many others, only convert 1082 01:37:36,508 --> 01:37:38,810 - to prosper in politics? - Synesius. 1083 01:37:39,010 --> 01:37:40,211 Why didn't you kneel? 1084 01:37:40,366 --> 01:37:42,286 - What choice did I have? - Why didn't you kneel? 1085 01:37:42,346 --> 01:37:43,948 What choice did I have? 1086 01:37:45,162 --> 01:37:47,064 Betray Hypatia? 1087 01:37:47,873 --> 01:37:49,675 Condemn her? 1088 01:37:49,854 --> 01:37:50,955 Would you have done that? 1089 01:37:51,105 --> 01:37:52,807 I would never offend God. 1090 01:37:52,982 --> 01:37:56,085 It's he, he is offending God. He is offending Him. 1091 01:37:56,424 --> 01:38:00,227 He's twisting His words, he's using the Scriptures. 1092 01:38:00,386 --> 01:38:01,787 He read 1093 01:38:02,575 --> 01:38:04,477 what is written. 1094 01:38:06,538 --> 01:38:08,440 How many women do you obey? 1095 01:38:09,666 --> 01:38:10,967 How many? 1096 01:38:11,438 --> 01:38:14,040 How many do you admire and listen to? 1097 01:38:16,443 --> 01:38:17,644 Only... 1098 01:38:18,111 --> 01:38:19,212 One. 1099 01:38:23,324 --> 01:38:24,626 Only one. 1100 01:38:24,681 --> 01:38:26,382 The Scripture... 1101 01:38:26,766 --> 01:38:29,168 The Scripture is correct... 1102 01:38:31,041 --> 01:38:33,444 And it was in His hands. 1103 01:38:35,525 --> 01:38:37,527 Brother, don't you see? 1104 01:38:37,714 --> 01:38:40,016 Don't you see the insult to God? 1105 01:38:42,302 --> 01:38:44,104 In front of everyone. 1106 01:38:48,141 --> 01:38:50,143 I don't know... 1107 01:38:53,250 --> 01:38:54,852 I don't know what... What I believe... 1108 01:38:55,023 --> 01:38:56,525 You have to tell him. 1109 01:38:56,692 --> 01:38:59,695 Go tell him now, Orestes. Tell him you believe in what is written. 1110 01:39:00,654 --> 01:39:03,256 - I believe... - Don't tell me. Tell Him. 1111 01:39:05,137 --> 01:39:06,839 Tell God. 1112 01:39:07,014 --> 01:39:08,616 Kneel! 1113 01:39:10,976 --> 01:39:12,578 Kneel! 1114 01:39:34,958 --> 01:39:37,110 Many are those who remember today the miracles 1115 01:39:37,201 --> 01:39:39,352 our beloved brother performed in life. 1116 01:39:42,153 --> 01:39:44,355 Like the time he commended himself to the Father 1117 01:39:44,552 --> 01:39:48,155 and threw himself into the fire and was not even singed. 1118 01:39:49,557 --> 01:39:50,858 Ammonius, 1119 01:39:52,059 --> 01:39:55,462 dead for bravely defending your faith in Christ. 1120 01:39:58,002 --> 01:40:00,404 I proclaim you a martyr. 1121 01:40:02,069 --> 01:40:03,671 A saint. 1122 01:40:08,325 --> 01:40:11,028 From now on, you shall be known as... 1123 01:40:11,244 --> 01:40:13,647 Saint Taumasius. 1124 01:40:26,677 --> 01:40:28,078 We want justice! 1125 01:40:28,240 --> 01:40:30,843 Justice! 1126 01:40:35,435 --> 01:40:36,637 May God show us the way, 1127 01:40:36,791 --> 01:40:39,894 my dear Parabalani. Little else can I say to you. 1128 01:40:47,009 --> 01:40:48,611 What about the monks of Nitria? 1129 01:40:48,782 --> 01:40:50,884 I count on at least 500 of them. 1130 01:40:51,076 --> 01:40:53,579 Plus 500 of our own men... 1131 01:40:53,787 --> 01:40:56,690 - Do you think that's enough? - He's the prefect... 1132 01:40:57,019 --> 01:40:58,621 He has a whole army to protect him. 1133 01:40:58,792 --> 01:41:00,093 Listen! 1134 01:41:00,773 --> 01:41:03,075 Why don't we do something much more simple and effective? 1135 01:41:03,275 --> 01:41:04,877 What are you talking about? 1136 01:41:05,674 --> 01:41:07,976 We can hurt him where it hurts most. 1137 01:41:09,845 --> 01:41:10,846 How? 1138 01:41:11,096 --> 01:41:13,098 - That whore. - Who? 1139 01:41:14,328 --> 01:41:18,332 What if we dared to look at the world just as it is? 1140 01:41:19,124 --> 01:41:22,728 Let us shed for a moment every preconceived idea. 1141 01:41:22,983 --> 01:41:25,686 What shape would it show us? What shape? 1142 01:41:25,902 --> 01:41:29,606 You once said that the problem lies in the inconsistency of the Sun. 1143 01:41:29,969 --> 01:41:31,771 Yes I did, good, good... Put it into words. 1144 01:41:34,348 --> 01:41:37,451 The Sun must be at the center, since we revolve around it. 1145 01:41:37,685 --> 01:41:38,886 And at the same time, 1146 01:41:39,040 --> 01:41:42,443 in another position since our distance from it varies. 1147 01:41:42,690 --> 01:41:44,692 - Yes, exactly. - How? 1148 01:41:46,130 --> 01:41:48,833 How could it occupy two positions at once? 1149 01:41:53,117 --> 01:41:56,220 How could it occupy two positions at once? 1150 01:41:57,079 --> 01:42:02,084 How could it occupy two positions at once? 1151 01:42:19,810 --> 01:42:21,311 Aspasius... 1152 01:42:37,014 --> 01:42:39,616 Yes, yes. There. And then the other one here. 1153 01:42:39,830 --> 01:42:42,032 Keeping the same proportion. 1154 01:42:45,460 --> 01:42:48,163 Good. Very good. Now, tie this end to that torch. 1155 01:42:55,574 --> 01:42:56,676 Aspasius. 1156 01:42:57,243 --> 01:42:59,545 I want you to imagine that this is the Earth. 1157 01:42:59,850 --> 01:43:01,410 And that each of these flames represent 1158 01:43:01,519 --> 01:43:04,021 the two extreme positions of the sun in relation to it. 1159 01:43:04,229 --> 01:43:05,931 In winter and in summer. 1160 01:43:06,732 --> 01:43:10,836 What would happen if both these positions were the two centers 1161 01:43:11,319 --> 01:43:12,821 of one and the same circle? 1162 01:43:13,718 --> 01:43:15,419 But it isn't possible, mistress. 1163 01:43:15,594 --> 01:43:18,385 Wait. What do we know about a circle? We know that the center of a circle 1164 01:43:18,409 --> 01:43:21,312 is always the same distance from any point along its perimeter. 1165 01:43:21,537 --> 01:43:22,338 - Exactly. Yes, so... 1166 01:43:22,476 --> 01:43:24,378 What if I divide the center into two... 1167 01:43:24,875 --> 01:43:29,679 but what I keep constant is the sum of their two distances to the perimeter. 1168 01:43:31,651 --> 01:43:35,155 Alright, look. I'll show you. Watch. As I move this rod along 1169 01:43:35,405 --> 01:43:37,808 the cord, as one segment increases 1170 01:43:38,013 --> 01:43:40,215 the other segment decreases, and vice versa. 1171 01:43:41,245 --> 01:43:44,048 Therefore the sum of the two is always going to be constant. 1172 01:43:44,269 --> 01:43:45,670 Do you see that? 1173 01:43:45,833 --> 01:43:52,339 Now, what if we apply this to the movement of the Earth? 1174 01:44:06,896 --> 01:44:08,197 What... 1175 01:44:11,275 --> 01:44:12,676 figure... 1176 01:44:13,152 --> 01:44:15,154 will we obtain? 1177 01:44:18,677 --> 01:44:20,179 An ellipse! 1178 01:44:20,764 --> 01:44:24,467 With the sun at one of its foci. 1179 01:44:26,081 --> 01:44:27,682 Because, 1180 01:44:28,167 --> 01:44:29,869 what is a circle except 1181 01:44:30,044 --> 01:44:32,146 a very special ellipse 1182 01:44:32,337 --> 01:44:36,041 whose foci have joined so close together that they appear to be one. 1183 01:44:40,888 --> 01:44:43,090 Perhaps, I'm completely raving, Aspasius. 1184 01:44:43,286 --> 01:44:46,890 I mean, why should this be so? Maybe I'm just... 1185 01:44:47,560 --> 01:44:48,962 Maybe I'm... 1186 01:44:59,343 --> 01:45:00,744 What do you think? 1187 01:45:06,642 --> 01:45:08,644 It could well be solved, mistress. 1188 01:45:18,633 --> 01:45:21,436 Alright, well, um, we'll continue with this tomorrow. 1189 01:45:22,179 --> 01:45:23,680 Get some sleep. 1190 01:45:23,847 --> 01:45:25,248 Good night, mistress. Good night. 1191 01:45:27,600 --> 01:45:28,701 Thank you. 1192 01:46:40,903 --> 01:46:42,104 Davus! 1193 01:46:45,490 --> 01:46:46,791 Davus! 1194 01:46:51,017 --> 01:46:52,518 What are you doing? 1195 01:47:15,833 --> 01:47:17,135 Lady. 1196 01:47:18,648 --> 01:47:20,350 Let me see. 1197 01:47:21,464 --> 01:47:23,066 Why don't you sit down? 1198 01:47:26,573 --> 01:47:28,075 Where is everybody? 1199 01:47:28,241 --> 01:47:29,942 Please, sit down. 1200 01:47:30,848 --> 01:47:32,050 I have... 1201 01:47:32,204 --> 01:47:33,905 I have news for you too. 1202 01:47:41,900 --> 01:47:43,502 All dignitaries 1203 01:47:43,673 --> 01:47:45,976 who have yet to embrace the Christian faith 1204 01:47:46,176 --> 01:47:48,378 are to be baptized 1205 01:47:49,616 --> 01:47:50,917 in public. 1206 01:47:55,560 --> 01:47:56,961 The aim is very clear. 1207 01:47:57,124 --> 01:48:01,628 It's to add to our cause all the Christians in the city... 1208 01:48:04,006 --> 01:48:06,408 Decent folk, better, 1209 01:48:06,717 --> 01:48:08,919 to fight for me. 1210 01:48:11,201 --> 01:48:13,303 You speak of peddling faith. 1211 01:48:22,878 --> 01:48:24,080 Very well. 1212 01:48:26,112 --> 01:48:28,364 Since everything seems to have been decided already. 1213 01:48:28,458 --> 01:48:31,310 I don't understand why you required my presence here. 1214 01:48:47,070 --> 01:48:48,871 I am not a member of government. 1215 01:48:49,051 --> 01:48:52,654 No, you are more than that. You are the person I trust most 1216 01:48:52,908 --> 01:48:54,510 and everyone knows it. 1217 01:48:54,681 --> 01:48:56,583 You cannot be saying what you are saying. 1218 01:49:05,213 --> 01:49:06,214 Lady. 1219 01:49:09,383 --> 01:49:11,085 Many years ago... 1220 01:49:13,450 --> 01:49:15,552 Years ago, you taught us something. 1221 01:49:16,578 --> 01:49:17,879 If... 1222 01:49:18,142 --> 01:49:20,344 If two are... 1223 01:49:20,644 --> 01:49:23,147 equal to a third they are all equal to each other. 1224 01:49:23,356 --> 01:49:24,657 Do you remember? 1225 01:49:24,815 --> 01:49:25,516 Yes. 1226 01:49:25,649 --> 01:49:28,452 The three of us, we are all good people. 1227 01:49:28,673 --> 01:49:32,177 And you, you are as Christian as we are! 1228 01:49:36,910 --> 01:49:39,913 Synesius, you don't question what you believe. 1229 01:49:42,019 --> 01:49:43,721 You cannot. 1230 01:49:47,234 --> 01:49:48,635 I must. 1231 01:49:57,348 --> 01:49:58,349 Well... 1232 01:50:01,102 --> 01:50:02,603 That's a pity, 1233 01:50:02,874 --> 01:50:03,874 Lady. 1234 01:50:03,916 --> 01:50:05,818 A great pity. 1235 01:50:07,462 --> 01:50:09,264 Our revered teacher, 1236 01:50:09,443 --> 01:50:12,546 taken away from what she herself taught us. 1237 01:50:13,092 --> 01:50:16,196 Or do you think I'm not aware of the insane things you invoke? 1238 01:50:16,429 --> 01:50:19,632 - Synesius! - With Earth moving around the Sun. 1239 01:50:21,017 --> 01:50:22,819 What next, Lady, what next? 1240 01:50:24,354 --> 01:50:25,955 I beg of you, you must let me go. 1241 01:50:26,648 --> 01:50:28,250 Let me in! 1242 01:50:28,316 --> 01:50:30,818 - I just wanna talk! - Why would she wanna see a Parabalani? 1243 01:50:31,027 --> 01:50:34,030 - Lady! - Go away, before we arrest you. 1244 01:50:34,780 --> 01:50:36,782 - Leave! - Aspasius! 1245 01:50:37,179 --> 01:50:39,881 It's me, Davus! Get off me. 1246 01:50:40,307 --> 01:50:42,264 - Tell them who I am! - Do you know this man? - Yes. 1247 01:50:42,288 --> 01:50:43,389 What do you want? 1248 01:50:43,539 --> 01:50:46,380 I need to speak to her. I need to speak with the mistress. Where is she? 1249 01:50:46,459 --> 01:50:49,061 - My mistress is not here. - It's urgent! Where is she? 1250 01:50:49,900 --> 01:50:51,101 She's at the prefect's palace. 1251 01:50:51,256 --> 01:50:52,857 - Where? - The prefect palace! 1252 01:50:53,028 --> 01:50:55,931 - Prefect's palace. Thank you. - Get out of here. 1253 01:50:57,616 --> 01:50:58,617 Who was that? 1254 01:51:00,118 --> 01:51:01,820 He was a slave once. 1255 01:51:08,042 --> 01:51:10,945 Wait, please! Wait! I beg you. 1256 01:51:20,347 --> 01:51:24,951 If you don't agree, I won't be able to protect you any longer. 1257 01:51:26,499 --> 01:51:29,602 I won't be able to have dealings with you. 1258 01:51:30,982 --> 01:51:32,884 Or even greet you. 1259 01:51:35,674 --> 01:51:36,975 Hypatia. 1260 01:51:38,386 --> 01:51:39,887 Don't you see? 1261 01:51:40,679 --> 01:51:42,981 I can't go on without you. 1262 01:51:44,225 --> 01:51:45,526 I can't. 1263 01:51:51,628 --> 01:51:53,630 Without you, I can't defeat Cyril. 1264 01:51:55,382 --> 01:51:56,783 Oh, Orestes. 1265 01:52:03,307 --> 01:52:05,208 Cyril has already won. 1266 01:52:23,013 --> 01:52:24,214 Thank you. 1267 01:52:24,473 --> 01:52:26,174 I do not need you. 1268 01:52:54,816 --> 01:52:55,817 Davus! 1269 01:52:58,465 --> 01:53:00,767 Brother! Where are you going? 1270 01:53:01,176 --> 01:53:02,478 We found her! 1271 01:53:46,742 --> 01:53:48,243 Come on, walk! 1272 01:53:48,515 --> 01:53:50,016 Move it, sinner! 1273 01:53:53,624 --> 01:53:55,426 Whore! 1274 01:54:06,240 --> 01:54:07,240 Witch! 1275 01:54:09,473 --> 01:54:10,574 Pagan sinner! 1276 01:54:24,175 --> 01:54:27,379 Move! Come on! 1277 01:54:29,806 --> 01:54:30,907 Witch! 1278 01:54:54,101 --> 01:54:55,603 Strip her naked! 1279 01:55:04,945 --> 01:55:05,946 Get up. 1280 01:55:08,385 --> 01:55:12,389 That's it. So that God can behold you in all your filth, whore. 1281 01:55:12,661 --> 01:55:14,663 Were you not the prefect's whore? 1282 01:55:14,851 --> 01:55:16,152 Heathen! 1283 01:55:16,936 --> 01:55:17,937 Whore. 1284 01:55:18,083 --> 01:55:18,784 Look, 1285 01:55:18,917 --> 01:55:20,419 she's not reacting. 1286 01:55:20,794 --> 01:55:23,897 She will scream all right when we skin her alive. 1287 01:55:24,548 --> 01:55:26,550 - How many of you have knives? - None. 1288 01:55:30,700 --> 01:55:32,902 Don't stain your hands with impure blood. 1289 01:55:35,391 --> 01:55:36,793 Let's stone her! 1290 01:55:37,268 --> 01:55:40,071 - Let's stone this witch! - Get some stones. 1291 01:55:41,231 --> 01:55:42,933 - Quickly! The ones we throw at Orestes. 1292 01:55:43,108 --> 01:55:44,109 They are still here. 1293 01:55:44,254 --> 01:55:46,457 I'll stay with her. 1294 01:57:52,612 --> 01:57:54,013 She fainted. 1295 01:58:28,794 --> 01:58:31,697 The body of Hypatia was mutilated and the remains were dragged through 1296 01:58:31,922 --> 01:58:33,824 the streets and burned in a fire. 1297 01:58:34,007 --> 01:58:37,127 Orestes was outlawed forever and Cyril took control of the power in Alexandria. 1298 01:58:40,263 --> 01:58:43,867 Later, Cyril was declared a Saint and Doctor of the Church. 1299 01:58:48,604 --> 01:58:50,807 Although not any of Hypatia works remains, 1300 01:58:51,003 --> 01:58:52,752 it is known that she was an exceptional astronomer, 1301 01:58:52,776 --> 01:58:55,679 well-known for the mathematical study of conical curves. 1302 01:59:01,117 --> 01:59:03,019 1200 years later, 1303 01:59:03,202 --> 01:59:05,163 in the 17th century, astronomer Johannes Kepler... 1304 01:59:05,288 --> 01:59:07,190 described that one of those curves, 1305 01:59:07,373 --> 01:59:10,777 the ellipse, governs the movement of the planets.