OT: Anyone watch Sparticus - blood and sand?

[Ludens]

I was just wondering was Thrace quite "civilized/Hellenised" at this point in the classical period? As the Thracian's refering to the Getia as barbarians seemed pretty rich.

Yeah, thrace was, iirc, not really hellenized - at least not enough that they would consider themselves Greek, so I tend to doubt they'd be tossing around the word barbarian.

I can't answer the OPs question directly, but remember the origin of the word "barbarian". The Greeks used it for the not-exactly-primitive Persians, and were subjected to it in turn by the Romans. The word's little more than abuse. Though I doubt such subtleties were considered by the script writer while penning that line.