• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    I’d wager there’s no accurate historical depiction in any media.

    Everything is stylized or fictionalized to some degree.

    Maybe The Passion of the Christ is closest I can think of as they did all the speech in Aramaic and Old Latin

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      6 months ago

      If we are talking about ethnicity, there were huge liberties taken. I think a few of the romans were actually Italian but no one else was close to plausible.

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        6 months ago

        I haven’t seen the film and don’t plan to, but most Romans weren’t Italian by that point, especially in the military.