Letters of Synesius to Hypatia

It was really interesting to read the letters of Synesius to Hypatia because they were about so many different topics.  In the movie, though it does not say why Synesius left I just thought of it being something that just happens, but through his letters I noticed that he was not happy where he was living.  He often wrote about how miserable he was and how if he could change where to live he would but that he couldn’t. It was also sad to realize that the movie Agora got all the killings right because I had hoped that it was something that was added purely for the film but it was not. I was however glad that I was still able to tell that he was a good person but was surprised to read that he was being faithless because he professes grace and harmony. It seems to me that if I would to go back in time and become a peace advocate I would have probably been killed. It is very evident through his letters that Synesius held Hypatia to a very high standard and that he trusted her implicitly. I can imagine that being a bishop would have been a career that if any small action was done that was not common that he would have been questioned. I was surprised to find out that Synesius had children because in the movie they make him seem like he was this virtuous bishop, which now that I think about it, he was probably portrayed that way because we would expect a Christian bishop to be virtuous.  All throughout when he was talking about his sons I kept thinking if it was his sons in the sense like a priest calls everyone his sons and daughters or if he actually had sons from his wife or from an affair, or maybe even someone he was courting before he became a bishop. I like these letters and would have loved to read Hypatia’s response to these letters and see if she felt the same way about Synesius and to especially to get a better understanding what it was like to be a female philosopher in that time era.