The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.
The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
'Rome' plays on universal human emotions that hopefully people can relate to. Historians are always going to be offended by it.
From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
Ancient Rome was a violent place.
When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.