No, there were no sharks in the Colosseum in ancient Rome, Dr. Shadi Bartsch pointed out.
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much to talk about. Dr. Shadi Bartsch, a classics professor who has written several books on ancient Rome, bluntly described the Ridley Scott-directed film as “A historian called Gladiator II"total Hollywood bullsh*t" for its historical inaccuracies. The Ridley Scott-directed film shows a flooded Colosseum with sharks, which is inaccurate, said Dr. Shadi Bartsch.Denzel WashingtonIn one scene from the film’s first trailer, the Colosseum is shown flooded and filled with sharks. According to Bartsch, a University of Chicago professor with degrees from Princeton, Harvard, and UC Berkeley, this portrayal is historically inaccurate.Martial, a Roman poet born in Hispania , “wrote a poem in 80 A.D.
However, while the rhinoceros in the film has two horns, the one in Martial’s poem has only a single horn. Additionally, unlike in the film, there is no evidence that gladiators actually rode these animals.fill the Colosseum with water for naval battles, they did not throw sharks in, as shown in the movie trailernoble drinks tea in a café while reading a newspaper—1,200 years before the invention of the printing press.), said to date from before 59 B.C.E.
for his depiction of Napoleon in his 2023 film about the French military leader and emperor. One critic, Patrice Gueniffey, a biographer of, the 86-year-old added, “When I have issues with historians, I ask: ‘Excuse me, mate, were you there? No? Well, shut the f*** up then.
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