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CONFESSIONS ON BETHLEHEM Viriato and

I'm no fan of many TV series , but, quite the contrary, they are very very few of them engage me minimally. But when one is based on historical facts, tends to attract my attention and give at least a chance. This has been the case in the series about the life of Viriato , Hispania (read Hispania Ulterior). In his day, when you and some (many) years was college, I caught the time of the Roman Republic and early Roman Empire (in part because of works of scholars such as Sir Ronald Syme, Keith Joseph Hopkins or English Manuel Roldán, among others) and that also did his part to decide when to sit in front of the boob tube.

Well, with the pessimism that characterizes me I began to see the first chapter. I was pleasantly surprised to see that many details were care : Legionnaires' clothing at the time of the republic, the clash between the Roman civilization wine and beer from the "barbarians", the garum as the food of the gods, the structure of Roman camp, the reconstruction of pre-Roman town houses, the Iberian falcata (sword), the image of the province as a means to catapult his political career in Rome, the distinctions between patrician and plebeian (and slaves) and inequalities in society also pre-Roman Iberian torques (necklaces) ...

sincerely with the limitations of a dramatic television series and some licenses or, I suppose, imposed by the budget (the quartet (later quintet) and company Viriato Romans too easily kill them by themselves), but with actors like Lluís Homar, who nailed the role the powerful, rich (but cheap, as Appian) and ambitious praetor Servius Sulpicius Galba, the series is kept afloat with dignity. Overall, despite my initial reluctance, I am still in the series, even with the fear that starts to freak out (or a growing number of followers of Viriato or it starts to be not credible.)

Finally, the series has achieved indirectly and also make time my support because of its confrontation grid Telecinco television. A series based on historical facts and that is an honest commitment to offer minimally cultural outreach have beaten a miniseries about the loves of Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia o-let alone-to a program as "Spain question Bethlehem answer " no longer an open door to sanity and hope for a pessimist militant and whom you write.

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