Fiction, Good or Bad (World History Blog)

I personally think that fiction is good because it gives people more insight of Ancient Rome. Ancient Rome has a lot of fiction stories such as the ancient Gods. Asterix series by Rene Goscinny is a comic book novel that is quite famous. The following are some famous films:
Quo Vadis - U.S. 1951 director Mervyn LeRoy

The Robe - U.S. 1953 director Henry Koster

Demetrius and the Gladiators - U.S. 1954 director Delmer Daves (sequel to The Robe)

Jupiter's Darling - U.S. 1955 director George Sidney, based on a play by Robert Sherwood

Ben-Hur U.S. 1959

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - U.S. 1966 director Richard Lester

Satyricon - Italy 1970 director Federico Fellini

Sebastiane - U.K. 1976 director Derek Jarman

Caligula - U.S. 1979 director Tinto Brass

Gladiator - U.S. 2000 director Ridley Scott

Quo Vadis - Polish/U.S. 2001 director Jerzy Kawalerowicz, remake of 1951 film

Here are some famous plays:


Joseph Addison

Cato

Albert Camus

Caligula

Henrik Ibsen

Emperor and Galilean

Ben Jonson

Sejanus, His Fall

Heinrich von Kleist

Die Hermannsschlacht

William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus

Julius Caesar

Antony and Cleopatra

Coriolanus

Cymbeline

Robert Sherwood

The Road to Rome (1927), on which a little-known 1955 film Jupiter's Darling was based.

Stephen Sondheim

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Next we have some Television Series:

I, Claudius

Rome

Spartacus miniseries by Robert Dornhelm (director)

Some video games made:

Rome: Total War

Shadow of Rome

Colosseum: Road to Freedom

Those are the examples of fiction in Ancient Rome.

The Gladiator was produced in the year 2000 and directed by Ridley Scott. It was released in May 5 2000 in the US. In this movie there is a Roman Soldier called Maximus. Maximus after fighting the German war against Barbarians they promised him the throne when he returns from the war. When he returned he was not given the throne and sent off to another city as a slave. They then put him in many arena tournaments.

This looks like a bit of what we studied in World History this week. The roman Army would go and come back to war and then their farms would be destroyed and their homes would be teared down. The part about him becoming a slave in another city I dont think is true. At the end I think the only nonfiction part of this film is the story of him going to war in favor of the Romans and coming back not having anything(or the royal throne). But after that o not think that the romans would sell their soldiers as slaves after every war.