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fog_shadow

Roman Wall Painting Rant

Sep 06, 2010 23:05

One of the first comments I remember hearing about the series Rome was the professor of my Art and Archaeology of Ancient Rome class complaining that the wall paintings were grossly anachronistic. (I recall he also took exception to the pronunciation of the name Pompey ( Read more... )

ancient rome (fictional), js&mn, crossover, classics geek

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dontcrosscross October 11 2010, 05:58:58 UTC

For the sake of "ATIA FELLAT OMNES", I can forgive them. :P (Because I am 3 years old.) But yeah, I... don't even really notice those things. What about the title sequence? (I suppose that's more graffiti, but I seem to remember there being at least some actual art.)

fog_shadow October 11 2010, 18:52:53 UTC

I don't know much about graffiti or external paintings . . . it came up once or twice, but we didn't dwell long on it. Anyway, I can't really speak about the title sequence.

One thing I have to say that I do like is that they really do make sure that everything isn't all shiny and white and everything. Once I learned that everything was painted (provided it wasn't built out of colored marble to begin with) that really annoyed me . . . at least until I gave up ever seeing any sword and sandal type epic done without vast structures of gleaming white marble. But Rome doesn't, and that is awesome. :) And the graffiti is entertaining, too.