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minus-square@funkless_ecklinkEnglish2•1 month agoI’d wager there’s no accurate historical depiction in any media. Everything is stylized or fictionalized to some degree. Maybe The Passion of the Christ is closest I can think of as they did all the speech in Aramaic and Old Latin
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 month agoIf we are talking about ethnicity, there were huge liberties taken. I think a few of the romans were actually Italian but no one else was close to plausible.
minus-squareFlying SquidlinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 month agoI haven’t seen the film and don’t plan to, but most Romans weren’t Italian by that point, especially in the military.
I’d wager there’s no accurate historical depiction in any media.
Everything is stylized or fictionalized to some degree.
Maybe The Passion of the Christ is closest I can think of as they did all the speech in Aramaic and Old Latin
If we are talking about ethnicity, there were huge liberties taken. I think a few of the romans were actually Italian but no one else was close to plausible.
I haven’t seen the film and don’t plan to, but most Romans weren’t Italian by that point, especially in the military.