Talk:Historical accuracy of Gladiator (2000 film)

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This article was nominated for deletion on 10 January 2009 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

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This is not an article but a list of bullets!--75.30.178.197 (talk) 07:14, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"In the movie, the Colosseum is referred to by that name", they should say the Flavian Ampitheatre. Well, in the film all of the Roman characters speak English instead of Latin! Hardly any of the words they use would be immediately familiar to people from times of the Roman Empire.

This is a good idea for an article but it's poorly executed.Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 17:35, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it just so happens that many words that proper nouns usually exist in similar pronunciation regardless of the language used. Flavian Amphitheater would be one of these.--Jorfer (talk) 23:38, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I will admit that "Flavian Ampitheatre" sounds much more like Ampitheatrum Flavium than "Colosseum" does. The Latin version of the name wasn't included in the article when I commented on it before.--Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 02:23, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There is at least one example i can think of off the top of my head where a Roman army used ballistae against enemy soldiers..... in a forest.... in Germany. It's at Kalefeld, where a Roman army was ambushed by germans c 200 CE (AD). theres dozens of bolts embedded in the hillside where the German ambushers are assumed to have been attacking from. the smaller scorpions and such were mobile for a reason. onagers not so much, so perhaps that part's correct

also theres several battles attested to by ancient authors where the legions were charged by enemy armies so fast that they didn't have time to throw their pila. so again, that is within the realm of the believable —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.23.53.168 (talk) 00:42, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The bulleted point about gladiatorial combats being rarely fatal is totally at odds with the encyclopedia entry on Gladiators, which indicates the spectacles were very bloody, violent, and death-filled.

References needed

This article badly needs additional references. As it is, it seems to be mostly made up of original research. Robofish (talk) 15:28, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]