I've never seen it, but I've seen at least one review of it in print. The gist was, "You think the ancient world was just like today, same morals, etc? Wrong!" So basically it shows a world that's very sin-sick, brutal, highlights Greco-Roman "virtues". The culture-shock is supposed to be very visceral, i.e. "How could people do that, or live that way; that's unnatural." But it is supposed to be almost obsessively historically researched.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/...ome/index.html

But the show is also accused of pandering to modern titillation.

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