I finally watched Agora on DVD last night. It’s one rioting mob after another interspersed with astronomy lessons.
You have your Pagan mob, your Jewish mob, your Christian mob(s). A Muslim mob would have fit right in, but had not yet been invented.
And did Hypatia really discover that planetary orbits were elliptical, not perfect Platonic circles? No. It was the sort of issue that would have engaged her interest, however.
Here is the historical part: There was a Pagan neoplatonic philosopher-teacher in 5th-century Alexandria named Hypatia, daughter of an intellectual father, who was murdered by a sort of Christian Taliban.
There was a Roman prefect (governor) named Orestes and a fanatical monk named Ammonius. And Mullah Bishop Cyril, of course.
And the rest is movie-making. (Military historians will note that the Roman soldiers look more like the 1st century CE than the 5th.) For more on the actual Hyptia—and on the movie version—visit Egregores.
UPDATE: See also Kallisti’s review with its “motivational poster.“