The new series attempts to chart the fall of four major empires but doesn’t always get it right.
- Lecturer, Classics, University of Glasgow
The modern soundtrack and dialogue feels far more anachronistic and intrusive than the diverse casting.
Les cordonniers romains de l’Antiquité avaient tout le temps, pendant les longues et sombres nuits hivernales, de s’adonner à des activités annexes… plus osées.
There would have been plenty of time during the long, dark, Northern nights for ancient Roman shoemakers to indulge in side hustles.
From the trinkets of the tomb to the mummy of the queen herself, the discovery of Cleopatra’s mausoleum could rewrite our understanding of the ancient world.
A long time ago, in an empire far, far away …
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