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Films & Shows Set during Late Antiquity

Runs from284476192 years wide

Shelfmark Liber XIX

Classical World 60% · Medieval Era 40%

A period marked by the decline of the Roman Empire and constituting the Mediterranean world's transition toward the Medieval period. Generally starting with the Crisis of the Third Century, Late Antiquity would see a number of political and social evolutions crop up around the Roman world, from the construction of walls around cities that could no longer trust a centralized army to reliably protect them to changes in the concentration of political power.

2
titles
1 film · 1 series (2 eps)
3.8/5
average rating
across 2 rated titles
100%
of the span is tagged
2 of 2 titles set inside it

See Late Antiquity on the timelineEvery year from 284 to 476 the archive holds, and what is set in them

Compare the titles of Late Antiquity in the CanonsWhat every title on it shares, what two or three share, and what is proper to one

Inside this Archive

391AgoraFilm · 2009 · initially set in 3913.6/5434AttilaTV series · 2 episodes · initially set in 4344.0/5

2 titles · in the order the archive depicts them. A series counts once, regardless of however many of its episodes carry the tag.

The Chronicle

The events and themes the archive follows through Late Antiquity, in the order they happened, each with the titles that depict it. Press a name to read about it in the threads below.

  1. 33–325
    Rise of ChristianityReligious
  2. 391
    Destruction of the SerapeumReligious

    The looting and ultimate end of the Temple of Serapis at Alexandria following the Roman Imperial transition toward Christianity as a state religion.

  3. 400–476
    Fall of the Western Roman EmpirePolitical
  4. 451
    Battle of the Catalaunian PlainsMilitary

Cinematic Introduction

Every title set during Late Antiquity, by the decade it came out. A series is placed on the chart by its first season and counts as one title entity.

First on screen
Attila2001
Most recent
Agora2009

FilmsSerieseach bar is the titles released that decade

Cast of Characters

The historical people the archive’s titles put on screen in this period, grouped by what they are known for. The number is how many titles set here they appear in.

Political8

Religious2

Science and Technology1

Historical Threads

A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pick a tab to read one; they are in the order they are filed on the timeline. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.

Destruction of the Serapeumpull it on the timeline

Event

The looting and ultimate end of the Temple of Serapis at Alexandria following the Roman Imperial transition toward Christianity as a state religion. The destruction of the temple and its library have often been described historically as symbolic of the wider conflict facing the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity between Christians and Pagans.

filed under 391

Places Connected to this Period

Every place the archive’s titles set in this period name, with each one nested under the larger place it sits inside where that place is here too. The number is how many titles set here name it.

Saltiness Across the Period

No title set here has been given a saltiness score yet. That is unrated, which is not the same as accurate.

Archive Density

100%2 of the 2 titles the archive sets between 284 and 476 carry the Late Antiquity tag.

This measure can help illustrate cinematic hotspots within a time period by comparing which years of the overarching, actual historical time period are backed up by a cinematic release.

  1. 284nothing set here
  2. 300nothing set here
  3. 306nothing set here
  4. 3911 of 1
  5. 4151 of 1
  6. 4341 of 1
  7. 4451 of 1
  8. 449nothing set here
  9. 4501 of 1
  10. 4511 of 1
  11. 4531 of 1
  12. 476nothing set here

12 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 5 of them with nothing set there yet. The filled part of each bar is the share carrying this period.

Share of the 4 genre taggings across 2 titles set in this period. A title filed under three genres is in three of these slices, so this is a share of taggings rather than of titles.

Credits

Directors

1Alejandro Amenábar1 title3.6/5unsalted

Films only. Co-directors are counted individually, so a director’s solo work and their collaborations are grouped together. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.

Networks

1USA Network1 title4.0/5unsalted

Series only, counted once each however many episodes carry the period. Average saltiness ignores any title still unsalted.

Also on the Timeline

Periods overlap freely so concurrent means the two spans share years, and the shared stretch is named. Bounded means it lies wholly inside this one, beginning and ending more than 10 years within its boundaries. Before and after are the nearest periods lying outside this one, with the gap in years shown instead. A shared thread is what the two have in common besides the calendar, and a period lying wholly outside this one can still share one.

RelationPeriodRunsShared yearsShared threadsTitles
BeforeThree Kingdoms184–2804 years earliernone shared2
ConcurrentGothic Wars248–554284–476none shared2
ConcurrentMigration Period300–600300–476Battle of the Catalaunian PlainsFall of the Western Roman Empire1
AfterAge of Justinian527–56551 years laternone shared3