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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 3447114, member: 82616&quot;]A BIG pet peeve of mine with a lot of films and TV programmes that are set in ancient Rome is the common trope that Christians were a fairly populous trodden down minority in the 1st century. According to the biblical scholar Bart Ehrman by the end of the 1st century there may have been up to three thousand or so Christians empire wide, mostly in Asia Minor, meeting quietly in each other&#039;s homes. Christians were far less numerous than the Amish are today in the US, but yet Hollywood would have us believe they were plentiful enough to be a <i>huge</i> problem for the empire early on.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]915212[/ATTACH]</p><p>Brian Blessed as a persecuted Christian in the epic 1984 mini series <i>The Last Days of Pompeii. </i>There is no evidence of any Christians having lived in Pompeii.</p><p><br /></p><p>And who can forget the Christians swarming all over Rome in 1951&#039;s <i>Quo Vadis.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]915214[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>It makes for compelling film viewing, but very bad history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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