... most revered cultures was that of the Roman Empire. This empire lasted for hundreds of years and to this day still has an effect on our society. The characteristics of this culture are still evident in todays day and age, and we see this in various ways. One way in which we as a people learn about the history of the Romans is ... by the Romans and their sadistic behavior. This director did a good job in this movie by realizing that history is more than a regurgitation of empirical data, and that to understand a society one must be able to do more than recite names and dates, one must al...

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