Pick a historical related film and analyse its historical accuracy.
Date Submitted: 06/03/2003 03:56:37
The historical accuracy of gladiator in some aspects was quite good but in others, quite bad. Even right from the opening scene, the inaccuracies start. First, there was no last great battle with the Germanic tribes on the eve of Marcus Aurelius' death. There was a great daylong battle late in the campaigning season of A.D. 179, but Marcus died on March 17 of 180, just as he was about to launch another great military campaign. It
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specific inaccuracies, "Gladiator" is an extraordinary film because it does vividly and convincingly portray some important general truths about the late second-century-A.D. Roman World. Many people find the movie offensively violent, bloody, and gory. Unfortunately, life in the ancient world in general was much more violent and gruesomely bloody than life in modern industrial democracies such as ours. Yet it may be this aspect of Ancient times that excite us most.
By: Taha Ashraf
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