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    There must be a topic on this already, couldn't find it though. I was just curious regarding historical accuracy here. I don't mean the specific events and the order in which they are presented (battles, etc) and it's really obvious that a number of liberties must have been taken with some of the more lively characters (mark antony and atia are both awesome ). But I was wondering if the everyday-life elements shown are correct. Slavery, what it meant being a citizen, religion, sexual promiscuity etc..Or if this is a slightly more sophisticated Zena?
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    I would say about 85 % accurate in general, 15 % entertainment. On everyday life of Romans (and for that matter Marus Antonius' character if we believe Cicero), higher. On battles, motivations, characters, etc, less. As for their promiscuity, which offends many, Romans were promiscuous, and they are no worse than Danes or any other Western country.

    Just like a computer game, a series like that has to cover some of the holes in our knowledge with assumptions and guesses in order to get the whole picture and thus an actual series or game. A TV-series also has to cater to the non-historians, and entain all the entertaining bits.

    If you are interested, this book http://books.google.dk/books?id=Evww...age&q=&f=false, though getting on a bit in age is a good resource.
    'For months Augustus let hair and beard grow and occasionally banged his head against the walls whilst shouting; "Quinctillius Varus, give me my legions back"' -Sueton, Augustus.

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    I've been searching for such a book for a while fantastic post

    have one of this on me :D

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    Thanks, but it is nothing. I am just fortunate to have read it as part of my education (well, skimmed some, read some, skipped some, for then I could not afford it).

    But thanks.
    'For months Augustus let hair and beard grow and occasionally banged his head against the walls whilst shouting; "Quinctillius Varus, give me my legions back"' -Sueton, Augustus.

    "Deliver us oh God, from the fury of the Norsemen", French prayer, 9th century.
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    In terms of the day to day life, in my Roman Social history class, our prof often used pictures out of HBO's Rome, she thought the everyday citizens where portrayed rather well.

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    Beside the fact that nobody actually knows how romans thought or lived I think its well done
    My father who teaches latin disaagrees, because of some things like the promiscuity of the woman, which was severly punished and mostly happened in the local brothels and not like in rome.

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