Agora

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• Movie Goof (revealing mistake): Images of earth from space show twinkling stars. The twinkling of stars only happens because their light is disrupted as it passes through the atmosphere, so stars seen from space should not twinkle.
• Movie Goof (factual errors): The film depicts Bishop Synesius condemning Hypatia's works and refusing to support her before severing all connection with her. In reality, like many contemporary Christian scholars, he defended her scientific reputation and maintained correspondence with her that remains the only contemporary account of her life and influence, and far from Synesius abandoning her, she refused to reply to any of his letters praising her for reasons she never disclosed to him.
• Movie Goof (factual errors): The Roman soldiers, and even leaders and officers, are shown with beards. This is a blunder. The term "Barbarian", used by the Romans, referred to those uncivilized men and tribes who wore these filthy objects.
• The set was built on the exact same spot (Fort Ricasoli, Malta) where the Coliseum was built for Gladiator. The fort was also used for "Julius Caesar" (2002), Helen of Troy (2003) (TV) and Troy.