A period of history · War · Expansion · about Military · Part of Pax Romana
Films & Shows Set during the Marcomannic Wars
Shelfmark Liber LXXX
Classical World
Inside this Archive
2 titles · in the order the archive depicts them. A series counts once, regardless of however many of its episodes carry the tag.
Cinematic Introduction
Every title set during the Marcomannic Wars, 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
- The Fall of the Roman Empire1964
- Most recent
- Gladiator2000
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.
Athlete1
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
How the titles fall, 1 (faithful) to 5 (a work of imagination). A period average alone would read the same for one the record is bent evenly across and one with a single wild outlier. A series is placed by its own average, rounded.
- 1A grain of salt0 titles at level 1
- 2A pinch of salt0 titles at level 2
- 3A shaker of salt1 title at level 3
- 4A bag of salt0 titles at level 4
- 5Enough to salt Carthage0 titles at level 5
1 title in the archive has no score yet and is left out of the average above — unrated is not a verdict of accurate.
Archive Density
100%2 of the 2 titles the archive sets between 166 and 180 carry the Marcomannic Wars 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.
2 years on the timeline fall inside the boundaries, 1 of them with nothing set there yet. The filled part of each bar is the share carrying this period.
Credits
Directors
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.
What the Record Corrects
2 claims answered for, across 1 title set during the Marcomannic Wars. A citation is attached to a specific assertion inside a review rather than to the review as a whole, so each line below is one thing the archive says a title got wrong or right, and what answers for it. Following a claim lands on it in that review’s own sources.
The Praetorian Guard did not wear purple cloaks, nor black armor. In fact, within the boundaries of the city of Rome, the guard would often be more likely to just carry their sword and wear a toga than don armor.
Gregory S. Aldrete, Graham Sumner, Ancient Rome on the Silver Screen: Myth Versus Reality (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023).
GladiatorFilm · 2000
The Roman cavalry are all depicted in the film as using stirrups, a technology that would not have been available at this time in the Roman World.
Gregory S. Aldrete, Graham Sumner, Ancient Rome on the Silver Screen: Myth Versus Reality (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023).
GladiatorFilm · 2000
Myths Common to this Time Period
Gathered from the titles set during this period that the archive has tagged with a myth, whether they repeat it or reject it.
The record: Armies from antiquity until past the Napoleonic period fought in formation because individual soldiers are vulnerable. Battles were usually contests between blocks of men holding together, and the side whose formation broke first usually lost. Further, maintaining clear formations was essential to maintaining battlefield operations and communication, both for commanders to be able to give orders to their subordinate officers as well as for individual soldiers to know where to rally and position themselves.
Repeated by 1 title: Gladiator
Methods and Tactics
Also on the Timeline
Part of and part of it are declared by the archive: one period counted as belonging to another, whatever their dates. 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.
| Relation | Period | Runs | Shared years | Shared threads | Titles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of | Pax Romana | 27 BCE–180 | 166–180 | none shared | 9 titles in the archive |
| Before | Life of Christ | 4 BCE–33 | 133 years earlier | none shared | 4 titles in the archive |
| After | Three Kingdoms | 184–280 | 4 years later | none shared | 2 titles in the archive |