HBO's: Rome (- threads, 1327 posts)
    The Arts of "Rome" (24 posts)
    Historical Thread

    See Rome and die? For discussion of set design, costumes, and other "Roman" qualities. ...
    11 Members have made 20 Posts here to date.
    Google
    AncientWorlds.net Web
    Next: Right, TL, and yea! Senex!
    Prev: I hadn't seen that site yet Senex
    Re: Pompey's Wedding
    none
    Author: * Petraites Lucretius - 1 Post on this thread out of 605 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Sep 8, 2005 - 19:42

    Wow, that's some image & it looks as if a bit of effort has gone into this series.

    As usual, the BBC has forked out big moolah for an American series only to show it seriously late (has still not even begun here in the UK).

    I also feel compelled to point out (as the killjoy I'm well known to be in these parts!) that the Forum as shown in this image - "Pompey's Wedding" - gorgeous as it is, would have contained just about NONE of the edifices portrayed in the 1st century BC. What I see here is essentially the Forum at the height of the late, late Empire,

    TL
    (But I like it!)


    NEXT: Right, TL, and yea! Senex!
    PREV: I hadn't seen that site yet Senex
Rome - Rome, Season 1 - The Stolen Eagle


Copyright 2002-2008 AncientWorlds LLC | Code of Conduct and Terms of Service | Contact Us! | The AncientWorlds Staff