Infrastructure Lessons from Venice

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(04-05-2017, 09:35 PM)Dill Wrote: Did you ever watch the HBO series Rome? I think you would like that very much. They even manufactured the costumes using only materials and dies available in the 1st century BCE.


A couple of issues with the equipment, but on the whole, a good job.

I did see that. They did a good job, despite the fact that they all spoke English with an English accent.

You could not make a film today which actually shows how life was back then. There were aspects of Roman society that we are so far removed from that they are alien to us today: live newborn babies being thrown into sewers because they 'appear' sickly, slaves being beaten to death in the streets, slave children being sodomized in public, etc. We literally cannot (and should not) show those things today.