Howdy!

In article ,
Cub Driver wrote:

there was no english being spoken during the entire movie,

There's an argument going on in rec.music.opera about the Latin used
by Gibson's crew. Evidently it's modern (Catholic) church Latin,
rather than the classical Latin taught in schools (when it was taught
in schools). Both evidently are wrong for the outlier parts of the
Roman empire 2000 years ago. Something more like modern Italian or
Rumanian would have been more suitable.

Greek. The Romans would have been speaking Greek.

Give Gibson credit for stirring up a debate among Latin scholars

*snort*

I'm disinclined to spend the energy to see it, given that I didn't
muster the ertia to go see Master and Commander.

yours,
Michael


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