‘Barbarians Rising’: Cast & Premiere Dates For History’s Roman Empire Saga
Lend us your ears: History has announced the cast and global premiere dates for its limited series about the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. The eight-part Barbarians Rising will invade North American shores on June 6, followed by a conquest of some 185 other territories through summer and into the fall. (See all the dates below.)
Told from the perspective of the rebel leaders, the series chronicles a wave of rebellions against absolute power by those the Roman Empire called “barbarians” – tribes they viewed as beyond the fringe of civilization that lived a brutish and violent existence. But these also were men and women who launched epic struggles that shaped the world to come with a centuries-long fight to defeat the sprawling empire.
The players and their freedom-fighting characters: Nicholas Pinnock as Hannibal, who vowed a blood oath at age 9 to destroy Rome; Ben Batt as Spartacus, the slave-turned-rebel who led a barbarian revolt; Kirsty Mitchell as Boudica, the avenging Celtic warrior queen; Tom Hopper as Arminius, the son of Germany surrendered to Rome; Emil Hostina as Attila, scourge of the east; Gavin Drea as Alaric, the king of the Goths; Steven Waddington as Fritigern, the warrior who took down an emperor; Richard Brake as Geiseric, the last barbarian standing; and Jefferson Hall as Viriathus, the shepherd-turned-rebel leader.
Cameron Green
Hannibal was not black
Luis Wright
This is a terrible idea. Hannibal got majority of his troops beat by hill people in the swiss mountains. Ultimately an idiot that salted his own city through terrible politicking that lead to his city being destroyed.
Spartacus ended up jobbing. Boudica was hilariously bad to point of a tiny roman army slaughtering 100 to 1 ratio, it was such an embarrasing defeat.
So 3 defeats = Rise of the Empire?
Attila dies of a nose bleed.. Goths betrayed Rome so I guess that counts as a victory?
jesus this is a terrible narrative.
Caleb Bailey
didn't all of these people lose against Rome though?
Should be called Barbarians Falling.
Jaxon Ward
Anyone remember this old gem from the golden age of History Channel?
Eli Gutierrez
>Hannibal/Carthage >Barbarians
literally what. They had the same technological sophistication as Rome
Carson Reed
with the exception of Alaric didn't all those other leaders get fucked up by the Romans... I think Fritigern was killed by other barbarians eventually right? My Dark Ages history is a lil rusty
Camden James
Who ready for /Detroit Hannibal/
Joshua Flores
?????????
Angel Ross
Hey Rome... is it me you're looking for?
Cameron Roberts
did anyone get my joke?
Wyatt Hernandez
They're filthy Baal worshipers and would murder children
Owen Flores
that's pretty fucking metal
Eli Sanders
if i recall, carthage had a superior navy for quite some time as well.
Juan Lopez
Romans sacrificed goats to idols
Henry Gomez
>show on the History Channel glorifying devil worshipers and ritualistic child sacrifice
shocking stuff
Jordan Wood
>HyStry Channel
Nicholas Watson
>Not watching Ice Road Truckers
Evan Baker
underrated
Kayden Stewart
Anyone who wasn't Rome was considered a barbarian. It really didn't have anything to do with technology or sophistication. That's more of a modern interpretation.
Oliver Barnes
>No Brennos >shitshow Nah just kidding.
Jacob Lee
Carthage was its own empire rivaling the Roman Republic of that time.
Spartacus led a slave rebellion.
Barbarians were Germanics that invaded the empire in the last hundred years before it collapsed. None of these events have anything to do with each other and the Roman Republic lasted for hundreds of years before the empire became a thing and lasted another ~500 years. What the fuck is History thinking?
Connor Williams
Romans, kind of like the Greeks, referred to anyone outside of their culture as barbarians. The size of your empire had little to do with it.
Including Spartacus is dumb as fuck.
Jacob Long
>post yfw Spartacus and the "barbarian" leaders team up to take on the Roman Empire, thus creating the Fall of the Roman Empire Expanded Universe (FotRE EU)
Levi Turner
It's actually quite funny what really happened. While Hannibal was going through spain, france and italy, the romans just crossed the sea and raped and pillaged their city while they were away.
Oliver Cooper
>Romans, kind of like the Greeks, referred to anyone outside of their culture as barbarians.
No, Greeks, Egyptians, Persians and Carthaginians were considered civilized societies by the Romans, blue-painted mud hut dwelling backwoods Celts and Germanic were not.
Noah Wood
Cant wait for them to portray Alaric as a barbarian when he was a career army officer that spent more time in rome than he did on the frontier
Joseph Johnson
>bootyka
I was waiting to read who the diversity hire would be.
Elijah Powell
>No based Brennus for the celts >Go with Boudica instead
Anthony Roberts
Everyone who isn't a Roman is a barbarian. Doesn't even matter if they're technologically superior, they must be subdued. Reread your Virgil.
>Others will cast more tenderly in bronze >Their breathing figures, I can well believe, >And bring more lifelike portraits out of marble ; >Argue more eloquently, use the pointer >To trace the paths of heaven accurately >And accurately foretell the rising stars. >Roman, remember by your strength to rule >Earth's peoples—for your arts are to be these : >To pacify, impose the rule of law, >To spare the conquered, battle down the proud.
Isaac Clark
>calls them Baal worshipers >picture is of Molech
Its still pretty nasty if its true, but I've seen sources saying the children were already dead and it was a glorified cremation.
Nicholas Gomez
>Told from the perspective of the rebel leaders, the series chronicles a wave of rebellions against absolute power by those the Roman Empire
How the fuck were men like Hannibal and Attila "rebels"? How the fuck do you call something like invading the Roman Empire from beyond the Danube a "rebellion"?
Brody Jones
Arminius was assassinated by other Germans after defeating the Romans in an ambush battle because they feared he'd grow powerful enough to dominate them all and become King of all Germany.
Jaxon Miller
How can you be wrong on the internet? Look it the fuck up.
Caleb Martinez
Roman's getting jealous of our soap and steel again.
Seriously though Celts were pretty based in their golden age, they were a shadow of there former selves by the time periods they're usually portrayed in.
Chase Ortiz
I thought they were only going to focus on the Barbarians during the collapse of the Empire. Hannibal, Sparticus, Boudica, and Arminus suck.
Joshua Hernandez
>Boudica Why do the Britbongs celebrate her so much
>Unite a bunch of British tribes into giant fucking army >Succeed in slaughtering lots of Roman civilians >Face up against two understrength legions >Get completely fucking rekt
What a great fucking rebellion.
David Wood
Why does that helmet look like a centuries old museum artifact?
Michael Cooper
We don't really. Anyone with any knowledge of history knows she was full on fucking retarded, It was only the Victorians who had a hard-on for her.
Anthony Hill
She was a stronk #badbitch who showed the patriarchy the power of feminism.
Luis Rivera
>Nicholas Pinnock as Hannibal
Of fucking course.
Dylan Cooper
Alaric sacking Rome is a loss?
Levi Rivera
That's not true. Also barbarians comes from the Greeks who called everybody who did not seek greek barbarians.
Parker Roberts
>celts >based The original rapefugees. Germanics being the original dindus.
Isaac Richardson
Barbarians are white people. Cucks (aka:whites) have been trying to separate themselves from their past since forever, this show will be a continuation of that. They'll be talking about themselves in third person, don't be surprised when they hire the swarthiest people they can find including mixed race blacks to fill the roles
Chase Diaz
i can't tell anymore whats true or whats been SJW'd up for propagandizing modern audience
Angel Hall
>Kirsty Mitchell as Boudica
she can attila my hun if ya knowadimean amirite
Gabriel Smith
>Hannibal >barbarian >rebel The fuck? Also noticed they changed Attila's epithet to "Scourge of the East" because apparently "Scourge of God" makes him sound like some kind of horrific storm of rape, murder, and paganism in human form. Oh wait.
Hudson Long
I could see it in yours eye
Bentley Gonzalez
>barbarian propaganda
Sebastian Edwards
WE
Isaiah Ross
Celts were savages. Getting conquered by Rome was literally the greatest thing to ever happen to the Celtic peoples.
Michael Reyes
Literally the worst Roman Emperor ever except for fucking Elagabalus
Samuel Gomez
Viriathus never lost to Rome, he was murdered in his sleep by two traitors of his very own tribe. This traitors then went back to Rome, to claim their "reward" and bath in gold, receiving the mythical answer of "Rome doesn't pay traitors".
Christian Peterson
WE
Charles Stewart
Elephants is the same
Luke Rivera
funfact: "barbarian" comes from the roman latin expression that covered all talk of foreigners as "bar-bar-bar-bar"
kinda like modern "blah-blah-blah" or "yadda-yadda-yadda"
Nicholas Cooper
OOGA BOOGA WHERE DA LATIN WIMMUN AT
John Garcia
It comes from Greek, you tard
Zachary Nelson
bodicea owns
Jayden Rogers
She had more balls than her husband though and you can't really trust Roman sources on losses
Charles Johnson
>>Why do the Britbongs celebrate her so much not at all.
the most you'll hear is her name would be in a year 7 history class
Nolan Murphy
Gotcha yea that was the guy I was thinking of
Joseph Perry
>140 Ante Christum natum >Not going full ríastrad
David Ward
You are aware that the Roman empire was absolutely buttblasted by the Germanics, right? So at least for the Cherusks and Goths in the show it makes sense.
Colton Cook
The only ones who won any lasting victory were the ostrogoths and lombards and even the ostrogoths got eviserated by belisarius and the lombards got cucked by the pope and Charlemagne
Levi Bailey
SHIEEET
Chase Torres
I would read/watch/play the shit out of that
Levi Bailey
>mfw Varus had huge tip-offs from Arminius' rivals about the trap at Teutoburger Forest but he still went in with inexperienced infantry and women and children Fucking nepotism
Nolan Young
also Hannibal is going to be portrayed as Black instead of an olive skinned mediterranean
Ryder James
The moment I saw they put Hannibal there I didn't even take the time to google the actor, I just fucking knew
Isaiah Cook
>You are aware that the Roman empire was absolutely buttblasted by the Germanics, right?
lol
Rome didn't actually give a shit about Germania, a worthless frozen wasteland without natural resources like the metal rich Iberia or the grain productive North Africa. The Germanics only did some damage to Rome after Attila the Hun basically put the Empire on its knees, to the extent that to survive Rome had to ally with some Germanic tribes like the Goths and let them enter into its territory as foederati, which was ultimately their demise for the chaos inside its own borders that this produced. The sack of Rome, for example, was a product of Attila pushing the Germanic tribes westwards. Germanics by themselves would have never and were never a problem.
Jason Sanchez
Do modern-day Negros not understand that white people lived in Africa?
Henry Price
Holy fuck that would be epic. A league of romes enemies cobsisting of hanabal boudica Spartacus and alaric and they sit around a table and plot the empires destruction
Christian Ward
>The Germanics only did some damage to Rome after Attila Alaric sacked Rome before Attila did shit, and 30 years before that the Romans couldn't do shit against a single Gothic army wandering around Thrace.
Blake Rodriguez
>Who ready for /Detroit Hannibal/
I can't believe they actually casted a black person for Hannibal.
>"History" channel.
Not only North Africans are not black, but Carthaginians (especially the ruling elite like Hannibal) weren't even of North African origin but Levantines of Phoenician origins.
This fucking triggers me, this pandering, denying reality to make delusional, crybullies slogan-shouting dindus feel better about themselves while shitting on actual History.
Thomas Myers
No, before Attila attacked Rome he pushed the Goths and other tribes (like the Alans) from Eastern Europe into the Roman Empire. The sack of Rome (and many other Roman cities in their voyage) was a desperate movement by the Goths and took Rome totally by surprise. The Goths travelled as a nomadic people in numbers that rised as much as 200.000 people and probably more (including children and women), when Rome realized about this they didn't have the time to match this numbers and stop them at time.
Austin Perry
Real fucking impressive considering Atilla was 5 years old at the sack of Rome, and not even born at Adrianople (where the Roman army likely outnumbered the actual Gothic fighting men).
Meanwhile actual proper Romans like Julius Caesar could handle 250,000 Helvetii trying to force their way into Roman provinces, and just fucking kill them.
Jayden Butler
Oh, and Alaric sacked Rome THE SECOND TIME he besieged the city. What a fucking surprise attack that was! The reason they couldn't do shit is because the Roman state by that point was so degenerate it couldn't put a proper fucking field army out there even to save fucking Italy.
Nathan Foster
When will Sup Forumstards learn that just because a race isn't black doesn't make them white? There's more than two races. Not only were the Carthaginians not white, but technically neither were the Romans.
Jacob Fisher
The Huns existed before Attila, they are the ones who pushed the Goths and the Alans inside the Roman borders.
Angel Campbell
>The Huns existed before Attila Yes, but you didn't fucking say "The Huns." You said Attila.
Colton Harris
>technically neither were the romans
this is why pol is popular.
Kevin Sullivan
>No Vercingetorix baka
Ryan Perez
didn't Vercingetorix got raped by Caesar's legions?