Jonathan Stamp Quotes (6 Quotes)

We find out more about that great voiceless mass the poor, women, slaves from the tomb inscriptions.

While Hollywood is often full of copycat ideas, the subject of empire is a hot topic for obvious reasons, says HBO's historical consultant, Jonathan Stamp. There's something particularly resonant about that particular point in Roman history, maybe particularly in the United States, ... Rome is wrestling with all the problems of whether or not it should expand, have an empire. If it does have an empire, how it should run that empire...

There's something particularly resonant about that particular point in Roman history. Maybe particularly here in the United States.

a distinction between being accurate and being authentic. There's no such thing as 100-percent historical accuracy.

Rome was a culture alive with fear, ... Fear of what the other side will do ... fear of what the gods will do if you do not propitiate them.

It's not a documentary. It's a historical fiction. But we have attempted to make the world, the background, the detail of that world as authentic as possible.