What is the televison series Rome based on? Fact or fiction?
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a little bit of both.  it's a great show though.  pullo is the best character.
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FACTS, what you know to be the truth based on FACTS
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I would have to look at the source ,material myself to make this determination.\n\nTo me it seems plausible. I read the book, and I haven't seen the movie. It sure looks like a woman next to Jesus in the Last Supper painting.\n\nOpuis Dei is real. You can look them up.\n\nThere was a Nicean counsel, and at the counsel they wrote the Nicean creed which is still recited in Catholic Churches to this day. This is the counsel that the book says "elected" Jesus the savior.\n\nLike I said, I'd have to research the Nicean counsel and go deeper than what you can find on the Internet.
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More=Rome\nPairs=Paris\n\nCant think of anything for the other 2 :(
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Non fiction is true, fiction is like a made up story\n\nExample:\n\nNonfiction: an encyclopedia\nFiction: Star wars
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Uh, the Great fire of Rome took place in AD 64...camera's weren't around at that point in time.  Good luck!
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I'm sorry all i know about Rome is that it is really beatiful!SorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorrySorry
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Yes, loosely...it was based on the story of Dr. Sheppard...I don't have much more information than that.  Wish I could be of more help.
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Definitely fiction. Sorry for the lengthy explanation. It's cut and pasted from a ChristianityToday article. See link below.\n1. Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene?\nNo. Mary Magdalene was certainly close to Jesus. She wept at Jesus' tomb (John 20). Jesus even entrusted her to return and tell the disciples about his resurrection. But we have no reason to believe they were married. Brown says that Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper reveals the secret. He writes that the figure to Jesus' right, traditionally known as the apostle John, is actually Mary. Not true. Artists often gave characters feminine features to portray youth. John was the youngest of the disciples.\n\nBrown correctly observes that few Jewish men of Jesus' day did not marry. But why, then, did the apostle Paul, himself celibate, not mention Jesus and Mary when he argued that apostles could marry (1 Cor. 9:5)?\n\n2. What about these alternative gospels that aren't in the New Testament?\nIt's true that the Bible did not arrive as a "fax from heaven," as Brown writes. The New Testament canon in its current form was first formally attested in 367. Nevertheless, church leaders applied important standards when compiling the Bible. Authors of accepted writings needed to have walked and talked with Jesus, or at least with his leading disciples. Their teaching could not contradict what other apostles had written, and their documents must have been accepted by the entire church, from Jerusalem to Rome. Church leaders considered earlier letters and reports more credible than later documents. Finally, they prayed and trusted the Holy Spirit to guide their decisions. \n\nThe so-called Gnostic gospels, many discovered just last century, did not meet these criteria. Many appeared much later than the Bible and were dubiously attributed to major Christian leaders. Their teachings contrasted with what apostles like Paul had written. For example, many Gnostic writings argued that Jesus did not appear in the flesh, because flesh is evil, or they rejected the Old Testament. \n\n3. Were there really competing Christianities during the early church?\nYes—in the sense there were many disputes about the nature of Jesus. And the church has done its best to vanquish challengers to orthodoxy. Once the church decided against the Gnostic writings, they gathered and burned all the Gnostic manuscripts they could find. \n\nLater church councils convened to discuss other threats to Christian orthodoxy. Constantine, the first Roman emperor to make Christianity legal, called the most important of these meetings in 325. Leaders from around the Christian world gathered in Nicea, where they debated Arianism, which taught that God created Jesus. Brown writes that Constantine called this council so he could introduce a new divine Jesus on par with the Father. On the contrary, documents from before Nicea show that most followers of Jesus already called him LORD, the Yahweh of the Old Testament. The church leaders at Nicea rejected Arianism and affirmed that God and Jesus existed together from the beginning in the Trinity. This council produced the first drafts of what became the Nicene Creed, a landmark explanation of Christian belief. \n\n4. What is Opus Dei?\nA conservative religious group within the Roman Catholic Church. Opus Dei urges priests and laypeople to strenuously pursue sanctification through everyday discipline. The group has taken criticism for its conservative views, zeal, and secretive practices. There is no evidence that Opus Dei has resorted to murder; nor has the Vatican entrusted Opus Dei to violently guard the church's deepest secrets, as Dan Brown claims in The Da Vinci Code. \n\n5. Does the Priory of Sion really exist?\nYes, but not as described by Brown. Researchers suspect that members of the real-life Priory of Sion, founded in 1956, forged documents that placed major historical figures—such as Isaac Newton and Leonard da Vinci—in
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Yes, Jurassic Park was a fictional movie but had alot of true fact in it.
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same answer as the divincy code,,,, ITS FICTION
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Why would you take it seriously though?\n\nIt is fiction, that is like asking if Harry Potter would make Muslims give up their faith.\n\nWhile Dan Brown does site some facts, they are hard facts such as the existence of Opus Dei and facts taken out of context can make any fiction seem real.
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Dear friend,\nRome was founded on 21st April 753 a.C. by Romolo on seven hills: Quirinale, Viminale, Palatino, Aventino...I can't remember the others!!! Through the city flows a river: Tevere. Tevere has an isle: The Tiberina isle, where there is an hospital. The harbour of Rome is Ostia. Go to Rome and you'll see that is not important its geography but its history and art!!!!!
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Well...it's not really something I enjoy as such (although I have seen some very beautifully filmed sex scenes in the past).  I recently got around to watching Rome last week, which was notorious for its sex and nudity.  In the context of the story, though, it was all appropriate...in fact, quite restrained given the historical period.
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It appears as though it is a work of fiction, below are a couple links, one of them is supposed to be from the author of the book, which was made into the movie\n\nQ. Is Creasy based on a real character?\nA. Creasy was based on a mixture of characters that I knew in the sixties and seventies in Africa and Vietnam.\n\nQ. Some people have commented that the movie seemed to imply that it was based on a real event, is that impression correct?\nA. Yes, the story was based on an actual event in Italy in '75.
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yeah,but if you dig deeper,the da vinci code is purely fictional,and the catholic church gave out their views on this...most if not everything on dan brown's book is merely a product of his wild imagination...but it was very entertaining...
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Yes. Not all of it is true (factual, historical), not all of it is false (fictional, mythical).\n\nCan you handle the truth? or the falsity?