Reported for insinuating Golden Age Romans coexisted with unfrozen cavemen lawyers.
Yep. There is no mystery here. You’d have to be autistic to not get the message being conveyed here.
Caesar wasn’t physically in Rome for almost the entire period he was Pontifex Maximus, so he must’ve delegated most of the responsibilities for the office to somoene else, ceremonial or otherwise.
Can a nitpick be major?
Don’t nitpick the nitpicks.
Thirteen!
What, only one?:dubious:
I have given up on seeing anything really authentic on tv - to be blunt, most people don’t want ankle deep in shit and mud streets, people with disfiguring diseases, nasty deaths and all the real details of historical life in many periods of history. They want pretty sanitized fluff. The best of the lot tends to be non-US programming, though occasionally they can get decent costuming in, and if they don’t screw with the books too badly [Lindsay Davis has a whole series set in Vespasian’s Rome, and she had one book turned into a movie that she promptly disowned.]
I tend to treat anything on TV that predates 1900 as alternate universe fantasy fiction. It makes me whine and scream at the TV less.
Eh, Rome was plenty gritty, and it and Deadwood seems to have created a trend for TV historical dramas to do the same. So I’m not sure your criticism holds.
They still generally don’t have plots that follow history very closely. But that’s pretty much unavoidable. Actual historical events are almost always too complicated and sprawling to depict 100% accurately without ending up with an unwatchable mess.
This is half the fun of watching Rome, trying to figure out the political manipulations. The first few episodes simply spelled it out for the audience directly to teach us how to think like a Roman. In the first episode Octavian gives an out of place speech about why Caesar outwardly is concerned about losing the Standard, but in reality is pleased it is gone because that benefits him more. There are more in the first few episodes and after that the writers let the viewer try to find the manipulations themselves. This is one of those cases - what Caesar is saying outwardly is sweet and appears to be weak but in reality he knows exactly what he’s doing to gain power.
Whose younger son (father of Claudius and Germanicus, grandfather of Caligula and g-grandfather of Nero) is also gone.
To make your head hurt, though, try figuring what relationships would exist if he had existed in the series and if Agrippa really had been the father of Antonia as in the series (before he left to become an Irish chauffeur), and try figuring it without paper.
And the character was about 12 years old when he said that, so it was a way of telling the audience that he was a very clever guy. (I think Lucius Vorenus was shown to be impressed by this statement.)
Modern Sicilians would have a much higher Moorish admixture than Ancient Romans.
As to all the redheads - it’s not that strange.
Anyone else have Dennis Hopper’s explanation of Sicilian genetics to Christopher Walken playing in their heads right now?
