Oooh, an atmospheric recreation of Late Antique Egypt

There will always be inaccuracies in any movie or TV show, but I have a real fondness for Agora. I love antiquity, but it's often glossed over by filmmakers. I mean, I love watching movies and shows set in the Middle Ages or Viking era as much as the next person (I'm particularly fond of Vikings...), but there's just not enough ancient Greek/Roman/Egyptian out there. Unless it's a Christian movie, but then it's focused entirely around either Christ or Old Testament Biblical stories. Sometimes you get a good story about Cleopatra or some Roman emperor, but they almost always feel as though they're playing into the myth more than the reality.

Nothing wrong with them, whether it's a historical drama based around the romance between Cleopatra and Mark Antony (with heavy doses of later Roman propaganda thrown in) or a Christian-based film such as Sampson and Deliah, but we very seldom see films like Agora that provide an interesting snapshot into the lives of people living in an ancient city that's about to be torn asunder by politics and religion.

It would be interesting to see more of these kinds of films. We could get a more accurate portrayal of Cleopatra, or go back further to the time of the great pyramids! Pythagoras had an interesting life - in fact, a lot of philosophers had interesting lives. I wish Hollywood didn't just glance over these ages, but I suppose they find them to be a market risk.