If there is one detail in the film by Amenábar it bother me particularly is the manipulation of the figure of Sinesio in the final scenes. First, in any way could not have been present in the final moments of Hypatia ... he had died two or three years earlier, in 413. Just this year, on the verge of death, he writes three letters (10, 16 and 81) in which he calls comfort to their plight. Far from betraying his master, or at least justify his conviction, as suggested by the script, Sinesio is faithful unto death, as he had promised years earlier, in 396, in an impassioned letter that began with a verse of Iliad: " even if you forget the dead in the house of Hades, I, even there, I remember " ... to which he adds: "the dear Hypatia" (letter 124). Already above the respectful treatment which led to his teacher. Add a special significance today, which appears in one of those last letters, 81: "and the truth is that, apart from virtue, it's you whom I consider a good inviolable ( agathon ásylon )." Incidentally, in this same letter tells us what could be perhaps text only words we have of Hypatia, namely, how loving that she used to address him: "You called me" the good of others ( allóttrion agathon ) "." And not betray friends, especially if the subject was to be a matter of orthodoxy, which were unconnected as Sinesio Hypatia. We will see what I was away from the rigors dogmatic Sinesio of orthodoxy.
Another detail that does not fit with respect to Hypatia years pass not by it, when the film covers a period of almost 25 years, from 391, date of destruction of Serapeo until 415, date of the murder of Hypatia. Amenábar seems also here to bet on the legend of Hypatia not only wise but also very beautiful until the moment of his death, it is likely that the death had more than 50 or even 60 years. This is implied in his Chronography Juan Malalas († 578), when, after describing his death, said restricted to: "It was an old woman (gyne palaio )." And that seems to suggest that in the Byzantine encyclopedia Suda (s. X) refers to Hypatia reached maturity or bloom ( acme ), which was estimated at around 40 years under the reign of Arcadius , ie between 395 and 408; if so, when he died in 415 would have between 47 and 60, meaning that it is very likely to exceed 50. It is logical that this was, above all the respect which he enjoyed among the politicians of his time, who left for her advice. In addition, the reverse is unlikely, because if we fix his birth, as some would like, around at 370, we would have to Hypatia in 393 teaching a Synesius of the same age: 23 years! Again, not consistent with the respectful treatment Sinesio always gives in his letters, especially in one of the last, where the flame "mother, sister, teacher" (letter 16) does not seem very likely to happen is called "mother "a woman of the same age ...
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