‘Gladiator II′: Enjoy the show, read books to learn history

A few minutes after the release of the Gladiator II trailer, social networks convulsed and swiftly the first criticisms of Ridley Scott’s historical rigor began to appear. These types of film have become the star in their own right of a competition in search of error, presentism, anachronism, and nonsense. An escalation of egos to demonstrate how wrong the director is about Roman history. Many of these critics — improvised and, in many cases, poorly versed in ancient Rome — even felt violated and offended. Some suffered an attack of responsibility for educating the public, to show the viewer that Scott’s vision is not the History of Rome.

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