Obama Aurelius

Empires die, but their propaganda echoes in eternity

Are you not entertained?

“There once was a dream that was Rome.”

Everyone’s favourite swords and sandals epic Gladiator (2000) has a lot to answer for. Not because it’s riddled with factual inaccuracies, those are awesome — even historians (the cool ones at least) will agree. Historical films don’t need to be accurate, they…