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The arena combat is highly unrealistic and stylized for the sake ofĮntertainment rather than as an accurate depiction of the way Because, the majority of the things depicted are true - the characters personalities and all of the battles and stuff, as I can believe, but it's not historically accurate as far as i know.īecause it is focused on the lives of merchants and slaves, and low level magistrates and praetors in a gladiator school in Capua, rather than the lives of consuls as you get with most depictions of Roman life. I think the Spartans were way more brutal than it was depicted in the show. just how much of the show is true and how much is fiction? I would to point out that my question it's not about the historical figure Spartacus and his story, but the roman society and his habits as it was presented in the show.
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Of course, considering the nature of the show, things are bound to be inflated, to make the series more entertaining and it's definitely working but still. The roman orgies are very famous, but the characters in the series have no shame towards the slaves and indulge themselves in all sort of strange practices.Īnd last but not least, it seemed fairly easy to kill someone and get away with it back then, as Batiatus demonstrated not just once. While it doesn't bother me one bit and I enjoy the series because it is what it is, it conflicts a little with what I had already known about the romans.įor starters, even if the gladiators were slaved, I lived under the impression that the most famous ones, the champions, were treated much better, something that doesn't seem to be the case with Spartacus and Crixus. I've recently started watching the Spartacus (just finished Blood and Sand and Gods of the Arena, currently watching Vengeance) and the events described seemed rather exaggerated.