Hypatia of Alexandria personifies the defense of the late paganism. About her life, her work at the head of the school of philosophy, her political influence and the circumstances of her death has been written very much, interweaving reality and legend, since the Antiquity. Thanks to Alejandro Amenábar's cinematographic version (Ágora, 2009), the figure of Hypatia acquired special projection among people. In this article, we propose to study the Hypatia's image offered by Amenábar, bearing in mind testimonies in ancient Greek as Synesius of Cyrene, or Socrates Scholasticus, and others. Likewise, we will analyze the historical setting of the movie, stablishing its relationship with the reality of Alexandria in the 4th-5th centuries A. D.Hipa...