Hypatia

The Roman Empire in the late second century CE, during the reign of Marcus Aurelius and the early reign of Commodus.

The Serapeum, a major temple of Serapis and an important pagan institution in Alexandria, was destroyed or dismantled during religious conflict in the late fourth century, after imperial measures restricting pagan cults.

The cosmopolitan Egyptian city where Hypatia taught and where the film’s religious and political conflicts unfold.