Agora-Hypatia-last moments of the Library of Alexandria

Humanity has conquer a vast amount of work pieces, in every field, and beyond imagination, during its small part of time-existence in the universe. And it is through the creation of civilization that all this become real. On the contrary, it is unthinkable to see humanity itself to proceed in a self-amputation by leaving ruins of its achievements to the next generations, who will lament about for ages. There is a greek word that is really difficult to translate because it doesn’t exist in english : σοφόμωρος / sophomoros. It ’s composed by two words: σοφός / sophos which means wise and μωρός / moros which means foolish. -To be wise and foolish at the same time. Unfortunately this is something that characterize man. A dramatic scene, taken from the Agora movie (December 2009) showing Hypatia of Alexandria (brilliant mathematician and philosopher renowned for her natural beauty, high i