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How historically accurate is this?

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they did not speak english with british accents in imperial rome

The real rome was much more diverse. It was a trade hub so it would have had lots of Moorish africans and asians who traveled down from the silk road.

Not at all. Romans were black

the show wasn't made in imperial rome either

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Started watching, 2 episodes in. Do they ever tone down all the unnecessary sex scenes or was that the only way to make Americans care about history?

Was about to start watching too and was afraid of hbo shoehorning that shit in but typical of them really

just enjoy it you autistic cunts

I don't remember unnecessary sex scenes.

Not in the first season, no sane trader would ever fucking stay in the city when Caesar was marching on it. Unless they collectively forgot such names as Sulla and Marius.
>ahaha dude legions were just clearing out opposition no one stole anything, if you died you probably deserved it :^)

WE WUZ ROMANZ AND SHIIIEEETT

Caesar was black

>Italians
>white

>How historically accurate is this?
Historically - not much.
Compared to all other historical shows - a thousand times more accurate.

The Augusts one is the weirdest and doesn't bring anything to the story or plot, same with the Pullo/slave girl ones. The Mark Anthony/Cleo ones actually kinda mattered. The discuss shit while leading up to/during the event and they show how she is able to control him and choose her over Attia.

The Augugtus an Pullo ones felt out of place and didn't add much to the story.

Of course, who else could Caesar be when he chimps out because he's prosecuted for breaking a bunch of laws and has been running from creditors for the better part of his life, genuinely believing that Senate somehow owes him gibs.

Real redpilled: "North of South Italian"

>set in ancient rome
>all the actors are germanic or celtic

they slandered the father of western civilization by having him fuck his sister. those hbo jews sure have got some balls.

I'm pretty sure Romans didn't speak English, for one.

[WUZZING INTENSIFIES]

The first Romans migrated to Italy from the Balkans.

well the real ones were short greasy little italians and that doesnt make good tv

augustus has a sex scene? what the fuck

GABAGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

not white enough

wtf, I remember everyone talking in Latin on the show
did I switch world lines?

>Moorish africans
You do know right, that Iberians populated the Maghreb on numerous occasions.

he chokes her while pumping her

It isn't. It's not supposed to be, it's a historical fantasy piece that's really fucking fun to play around in.

literally why? fuck hbo

>everyone talking in Latin
that's Passion of the Christ

or she chokes him. just remember choking

so this is just game of thrones but in rome? great

No, I'm 100% sure it was Rome

Just heard the news about the new show about Rome with Hirst from Vikings and Scorcese also involved.

Just wondering how blacked it'll be

What period?

I pretty much only remember them referencing gods and everything else was in English. Most of the characters on the show wouldn't even be speaking Latin.

The rise of Caesar. So it's practically Rome, only shittier.

First Vinyl and now this. Scorsese should stay out of TV.

Why did I even doubt, in mind of studios there is nothing but Caesar when they talk about Rome.

No studio would give money to make a movie/series about Justinian or Marcus Aurelius or whatever because they're pretty much "literally who" by normie standards. They want easily recognized "brands" like Caesar, Brutus, Cleopatra, etc.

That scene made me mad. Completely out of character.

>Marcus Aurelius

The Fall of the Roman Empire was one of the most expensive movies ever made back in the day.

Why did they portray Augustus as a Machiavellian beta bitch boy? The wiki says that they based the character off the "real early life of Augustus", but he was never really like that according to historical accounts. Pretty much his entire life people recognized his greatness.

Britannia?
Dont bother its trash

Who the fuck is Augustus?

A guy that always wins doesn't make for good TV

Don't know but it was a great fucking move. He was the best character in the show.
Never felt the same when they replaced him, even if it makes sense that they did.

The first Roman Emperor.

I watch the newsreader compilation on YouTube every day.

>Glorious Caesar... follows!

There was an episode with Socrates in it?

I don't remember that.

And interbred with the Moors and Semites like they were going out of style. Olive skin didn't come off the Russian steppe. Thankfully we now have DNA reporting to go off instead of mythology.

That was in the 60s. They did a bunch of historical stuff back then.

Romans didn't even speak Latin, the common tongue in Rome was Greek. No idea what you watched.

The most important Roman to ever live.

Fucking get past 1st grade history class

History Buffs is truly YouTube kino. (Except for when he goes unnecessarily hard on Mel)

Wrong. Greek was the preferred language of patricians amongst themselves. Plebes and patricians speaking to plebs spoke latin.

>the common tongue in Rome was Greek

...

It all happened.

What the fuck, user.

He is Anglo, it's understandable.

He was the Michael Jackson of his time. He started out by being a broke criminal nigger but then went on to become a very successful white man.

ABSCONDED

SLAVE

Greek was le French of the upper class who learned it through education. Even their native language was Latin. Are you some sort of nationalist Greek faggit who thinks Italian and every other Romance language is descended from Greek and not Latin?

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It's about authenticity not accuracy.

Remind me, Sup Forums

What political office did this man hold?

Augustus was a machiavellian genius though, remember that he managed to have half of Rome's elite murdered, their goods confiscated and STILL managed to maintain good PR

CONSUL

OF

They didn't show Cato as a brilliant young man that only wanted to save his people so not very

ROME

If Cato was so great then why didn't he ever manage to become consul?

They tone it down a bit and it never hits GOT levels

A new show you moron

>they slandered the father of western civilization
But the show wasn't even set in Greece

>Machiavellian genius
>somehow the historical record of his rule is 100% positive
gee I wonder how he got people to like him so much

Childhood is rooting for Caesar and Antony, Adulthood is realing that Pompey, Cicero and Cato were in the right

super nintendo

>scenes women and little shits will never understand

It would have required he violate the sacred laws of the Republic out of hand like his rivals and he was simply too good to do that

Which one would you penetrate, Sup Forums? Don't let mommy down.

Pompey was only with Cicero and Cato out of necessity. he was nearly as bad as Caesar. But otherwise you're essentially correct.

The one of middling thiccness between the german and the nubian, but I'd rather fuck mommy Atia

they should make a movie about AD 69

Just finished HBO Rome. Probably the greatest series I've ever seen. What should I watch next?

I'm trying to watch Spartacus, but it's ridiculously cheesy

the silk road was a trade network, no one traveled the entire thing...

adulthood is realizing that sulla won the best victories, had the best lines when he won them, and retired in the best way

>Just finished HBO Rome. Probably the greatest series I've ever seen. What should I watch next?
Nothing. It's over. By watching Rome you've ruined TV for yourself forever. Nothing will compare.

You can try I, Claudius, it's not really that good and they obviously overestimate how long Claudius was actually pretending to be retarded but some great episodes are there, especially with Caligula and Messalina.

>Sulla kept a young Cato around him at all times to publicly call for his death just because he knew it shamed his adversaries that a child was braver than them
absolutely based

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Four_Emperors
Agreed. Vespasian is an underrated Emperor

>Rome
>Otherwise known as women ruin everything
Other than the mob boss getting angry at Lucius, can you name one thing that went wrong that wasn't because of women?

the birth of caesar

it's over mang

THIRTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNN

user...do you know where babies come from?

/r/ing the Antony reaction image where he's bashing the Senator's face in

yea i put a baby in your mom last night LMAO BTFO

Ahhhh shucks user you got me

>Based Otho kills himself just to restore peace to Rome
Cincinnatus tier

The loss of the treasury gold.