Love movies. Love epic stories. Love ancient history (I was amazingly fortunate in my education — I got ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman history in junior high school, along with Latin, Shakespeare and the kind of geography where the test is “draw a map of Africa on a blank piece of paper and then fill in all the countries”… but I digress. Ah well, why should today be any different?)
And here is the trailer for the ancient-history-epic-movie Agora, directed by Alejandro Amenábar (whose work has always struck me as marvelously attuned to both the “big picture” of a film and the internal landscapes of the characters in it), and starring the brilliant Rachel Weisz as — wait for it — Hypatia of Alexandria.
And it’s Saturday! How much better does it get?
Enjoy your day.