What are your thoughts on the Spartacus series on starz?
Here are my main notices of historical innaccuracey.
-Gladiators were expensive. The majority were not killed off like cheap entertainment. Arenas was for killing prisoners and criminals.
-Gladiators were fat to help with wounds.
-Spartacus is overglorified.
- Batiatus did not live in Capua I believe. Nor was Spartacus a champion.
-Roman equipment throughout the series is weird. In S1 they wear almost Trajan era equipment(lorica segmentata, Imperial helmet, Rectangle shield) in S2 the historical innaccuracey was probally fixed and they wear Chainmail and the older Republican helmets. And S3 is just all over the place. They wear Segmentata again, Coolus helmet, and a Republican shield. And they do not carry spears in real life. only Auxilia does.
-Spartacus' army would be larger than Roman one.
-Crixus died at Vesuvius.
-Spartacus decided to turn back at the Alps.
-the pirates betray him in the very end.