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A civilization of the ancient world born in the Italian peninsula and spanning large parts of Europe at its peak, home of temples with even bigger columns, and brutal sword-wielding Roman legionaries, all of whom had extremely clean, well-kept, elaborate armour and helmets (even down to the lowliest grunt soldier). Also home to gladiators, mad emperors and elaborately coiffed women with slinky, see-thru stolas. A time when Classical Mythology was Serious Business for the pious. Expect to see a lion eating a Christian or two. The Roman Republic is less often depicted in fiction, except for the bit right at the end from Julius Caesar's conquests in the Gauls, affair with Cleopatra VII and assassination to the transition into The Roman Empire by Augustus (although occasionally you will see fiction set against the earlier struggle with Carthage or, more often, the slave revolt of Spartacus). The even earlier Roman Kingdom is all but forgotten aside from the founding myth of Romulus and Remus (though this era has been featured quite a bit in Italian media, for understandable reasons) and occasionally its downfall with the Rape of Lucretia. It's also pretty rare to see any fictional works set in the Eastern Roman Empire of Late Antiquity, which later evolved into the Byzantine Empire in The Middle Ages. Roman architecture featured much more bricks than marble, but in the intervening centuries most of the bricks either crumbled, collapsed or were just stolen to make other buildings while those useless marble blocks and columns were left pretty much alone, so in Hollywood movies you're now treated to the sight of Imperial Rome made of shiny, gleaming travertino marble, with little or no brick houses to be seen. Sword and Sandal works may feature a Fantasy Counterpart Culture. May overlap with Bible Times. See Ancient Grome for unwitting crossovers with Ancient Greece. |
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