An interesting effect of our trash culture/media, e.g. House of Cards and Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad, is that most people conceptualize the impact of "corruption" as "they ruined their relationship with their family", not as "100,000 people died of diabetes."
This is one of the reasons why Starz' "Spartacus" is one of the better shows out there.
The casual violence inflicted by Romans on their Slaves takes center-stage *every single episode*. The whole show is constructed to rationalize why their revenge and revolution is justified.
The casual violence inflicted by Romans on their Slaves takes center-stage *every single episode*. The whole show is constructed to rationalize why their revenge and revolution is justified.
It's difficult to watch HBO's Rome after Starz's Spartacus
Rome literally has an arc where the *protagonist* purchases an entire family of slaves, and the plot pivots on the family drama ensuing from his investment going bad (most die of disease in a public slave storage place)
Rome literally has an arc where the *protagonist* purchases an entire family of slaves, and the plot pivots on the family drama ensuing from his investment going bad (most die of disease in a public slave storage place)
I absolutely would recommend watching Spartacus, Rome, and Michael Parenti's "The Assassination of Julius Caesar" lecture all together, in any order!
You'll feel like Cicero was right beside you all along
You'll feel like Cicero was right beside you all along
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