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Gladiator II's new trailer has recently been released! In this video, my character Legionary Decimus Helvidius Rufus ( youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SiyDv9IZOMxGcE3bQPbZ35sN ) first reacts to it in his Roman way, and then I talk about the historical context — indeed, the historical *impossibility* of the film, and the deviations from actual history that matter much more than others you've heard about before.
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Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart
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00:00 Rufus Reviews Gladiator II Trailer!
1:41 The LATIN in the Gladiator II Trailer
4:38 The value of critiquing Ancient Rome
6:31 When does Gladiator II take place??
12:01 The buildings should be PAINTED
13:55 Other Architectural Problems
15:51 How old is the "young" Lucius Verus in Gladiator II?
17:29 Origin and Brief History of Gladiatorial Combat
20:13 What do you think? Leave comments below!
Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella "Vir Petasātus" :
storylearning.com/LukeSL ⬅️
Gladiator II's new trailer has recently been released! In this video, my character Legionary Decimus Helvidius Rufus ( youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SiyDv9IZOMxGcE3bQPbZ35sN ) first reacts to it in his Roman way, and then I talk about the historical context — indeed, the historical *impossibility* of the film, and the deviations from actual history that matter much more than others you've heard about before.
🦂 Support my work on Patreon:
patreon.com/LukeRanieri
📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks:
luke-ranieri.myshopify.com
☕️ Support my work with PayPal:
paypal.me/lukeranieri
And if you like, do consider joining this channel:
youtube.com/channel/UCLbiwlm3poGNh5XSVlXBkGA/join
🏛 Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/latin-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables
🏺Ancient Greek by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/ancient-greek-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables
🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SixsonRdfNNv-CPNq8xUwgam
👨🏫 My Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata playlist · Free Latin Lessons:
youtu.be/j7hd799IznU
🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel for content in Latin, Ancient Greek, & Ancient Egyptian)
youtube.com/ScorpioMartianus
🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio:
lukeranieri.com/audio
🌍 polýMATHY website:
lukeranieri.com/polymathy
🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram:
instagram.com/lukeranieri
🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast:
youtube.com/LegioXIII
👕 Merch:
teespring.com/stores/scorpiomartianus
🦂 ScorpioMartianus.com
🦅 LukeRanieri.com
📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon:
amzn.to/2nVUfqd
Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart
#gladiator #gladiatorii #rome
00:00 Rufus Reviews Gladiator II Trailer!
1:41 The LATIN in the Gladiator II Trailer
4:38 The value of critiquing Ancient Rome
6:31 When does Gladiator II take place??
12:01 The buildings should be PAINTED
13:55 Other Architectural Problems
15:51 How old is the "young" Lucius Verus in Gladiator II?
17:29 Origin and Brief History of Gladiatorial Combat
20:13 What do you think? Leave comments below!
