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Have you drafted a letter yet Cali?

oh come on I have sooo much more spleen to vent!

OMG, am PMSL at this thread! Go MT!

I just left review on the site. Do you think they'll publish one with the words lady-garden in it?

I couldn't find out how to read the other reviews posted though.\link{http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/rome/here's the link}

here's the link

I can't believe how many normally sensible actors prostituted themselves to make this nonsense. No, Octavian did not go to Gaul on a horse. No, they didn't lose an Eagle there, that happened in Scotland, England, which I suppose HBO haven't heard of.
At least Kevin McKidd and Ciaran Hinds have the decency to look pretty embarrassed.
Actually, I think the Romans were pretty keen on minimalist lady gardens - all that stuff about no pubes on statuary etc.
They claim to be trying to recreate violent, chaotic Rome. As lots of other people have already said, I Claudius did it so much better by being an adaptation of a brilliant scholarly novel by a wonderful team at the BBC. Sian Phillips managed to keep her kit on (thank God!) and be way more of a sexually predatory villainess...
But I think I'll keep watching a rabbit caught in headlights sort of way...

DH who's a classics and history teacher says

Roman women could quite probably have tended their ladygardens like that as they did shave legs and spent a lot of time on make-up and personnel grooming

Octavia going to caeser on a horse, he did get to ceasers camp on enemy terrority with a small escort, he's just checked in his book and it was in 45BC, but nothing about a white horse though

Did they shave their legs? I seem to remember that men plucked the hair from their chins, or am I talking out of my back lady garden????

dh says they used something to soften the hair on they legs so it would fall out, mark anthony accused Octavian (the boy) of doing this in a letter cited in one of the main sources from the time

er... I thought it was great!

bit too much blood and fighting for me!

this is why I love MN so much. Where else could you easily find this sort of stuff out?

I must say I loved the 'tesions' of the dinner party with the 2 soldiers.....give you an insite into the social structures of the day

i kept asking DH laods of questions last night when we were watching it

any more historical questions will ask DH later!

Was Julius Caesar Bisexual?

If I can apply just a bit of (ahem) logic to the lady-garden debate - women these days have brazillians to hide their spider?s legs when wearing high leg thongs and/or bikinis, yes? Even I can see that is a practical response to a contemporary fashion garment worn by the eponymous Brazilians on the Ipanema...Now, if said Roman's were shown arsing about on the beach, playing volleyball and displaying their voluptuous arses like so many baboons in usterus, I might think the 'costume' mistress had a point. As it is I cant stretch my imagination that far. It's just tits and (front) arse for the sake of it!

Can you tell I'm enjoying this?

I wondered about the Brazilian. My dh points out the Romans were well into shaving so it's likely to be accurate.

My dh is in this series by the way. He's in a later episode. I believe he has to slit someone's throat.

He said during the filming he had to be one of the manly soldiers marching.
They were supposed to march past a 'dead' elephant but when they got to the elephant it stood up and trumpeted.
The actors, apparently, all fled screaming like girls.

LMAO at tall the 'manly' men screaming!

Yes I pmsl when told.
Imagine them all throwing down their swords and calling their agents, 'We were not told about the elephants. You can tell HBO I don't do elephants'.

Mark Anthony was bisexual.
Caesar's daughter Julia, wife of Pompey actually died in 54BC, since ceasar was fighting the Gauls in 52BC, the letter from Roe telling him that Julia had died took 2 years to reach him!! (either that or HBO got ther facts wrong).
I have read the plot lines from the next 9 episodes on HBO website. It gets better. Think I will enjoy it in spite of Brazillian Lady-gardens.

my keyboard has Cod-ro-enteritis tonight.

lol do they not have fibre glass dead elepahants

yup, all style no story (or at least, no story that I cared about) as is so common these days.

gb - do you think its ctachng?

hahahaha at name change Cod!

H'ola Snrona....yep, fraid it is catching....

Maybe that should be Cod Roe enteritis?