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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 7941977, member: 81887&quot;]Actually, I&#039;m perfectly fine with this.&nbsp; Most American viewers have at least a vague understanding of upper-class versus lower-class British accents, so hearing an Emperor or Senator speak as though they went to Eaton, or hearing a common soldier who sounds like he&#039;s from Liverpool, feels intuitively right and adds to the characterization, even if only at a subconscious level.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, if we don&#039;t use British accents, what then should we use?&nbsp; Maybe members of the old Senatorial families could speak in Back Bay Boston accents, common citizens in flat Midwestern tones, rural provincials in Appalachian dialect?&nbsp; That might be thematically appropriate, but would also be very distracting for most of the audience.&nbsp; I also heard a suggestion somewhere (not on CoinTalk) that actors portraying Romans should use Italian accents, as the closest descendants of Latin.&nbsp; Okay, but how many audience members could tell the difference between different Italian accents, and how many Anglophone actors could actually manage such subtleties, in addition to, you know, all the other parts of acting?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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