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HBO\'s "Rome" to present more realistic look at the
Cleopatra smoking an opium pipe???!!!!!!!

What's more, one that looked like a 19th Century Chinese pipe!!!

Well I can overlook most kit complaints in the cause of good drama and witty script, but this is totally daft and very annoying!

If she'd heated some hemp seeds up on some sort of burner and had leaned over under a cloak to get a fix then that'd be more credible (considering Herodotus' Scythians account).

'The Scythians then take the seed of this hemp and creep under the felt coverings, and then they throw the seed upon the stones which have been heated red-hot: and it burns like incense and produces a vapour so think that no vapour-bath in Hellas would surpass it: and the Scythians being delighted with the vapour-bath howl like wolves'.

Herodotus Book 4: 75.

Ok they wanted to give her character an edge, make her a bit flawed and intense... but an opium pipe???? I think the art dept/props advisor were obviously all on holiday when that episode was filmed.

What do you lot think?
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Re: HBO\'s "Rome" to present more realistic look at - by Anonymous - 02-02-2005, 03:51 AM
Celts - by Paullus - 02-10-2005, 11:37 PM
Ho hum - by Nathan Ross - 08-09-2005, 11:39 PM
Re: Ho hum - by Robert Vermaat - 08-10-2005, 05:13 PM
ROME - by Graham Sumner - 08-11-2005, 09:27 AM
Rome Pictures - by Graham Sumner - 08-11-2005, 12:20 PM
Tableware - by Nathan Ross - 08-11-2005, 02:46 PM
A bit off-topic, - by Neuraleanus - 08-22-2005, 07:38 PM
Another review - by Neuraleanus - 08-25-2005, 03:17 PM
Only on the Ides of March - by Neuraleanus - 08-25-2005, 08:38 PM
Whistles? - by Neuraleanus - 08-29-2005, 02:17 AM
A roman whistle - by Neuraleanus - 08-30-2005, 02:15 AM
Draco? - by Arthes - 08-30-2005, 08:01 PM
Re: Draco? - by Robert Vermaat - 08-31-2005, 05:38 PM
Re: HBO\'s "Rome" to present more realistic look at the - by Anonymous - 09-06-2005, 05:14 AM
Rome set for 2007 season - by Arthes - 09-12-2005, 06:38 PM
Re: Another review - by Marcus F. - 09-17-2005, 11:28 PM
George Caeasar Bush - by Caballo - 09-18-2005, 02:19 PM
Re: Another review - by Comerus Gallus - 09-20-2005, 04:06 PM
Free Rome episode DVD - by Arthes - 10-16-2005, 09:00 PM
Rome - by Carus Andiae - 10-22-2005, 10:51 AM
Sex in the civitas - by Nathan Ross - 10-22-2005, 02:32 PM
Caesar\'s child - by Antonius Lucretius - 10-25-2005, 01:20 PM
Rome - by Vlad the Impala - 11-03-2005, 08:06 PM
Rome - by Vlad the Impala - 11-03-2005, 08:27 PM
You poor Brits - by Neuraleanus - 11-04-2005, 12:29 AM
Re: You poor Brits - by Arthes - 11-04-2005, 11:57 PM
Check out the cavalry shield - by Neuraleanus - 11-06-2005, 06:50 PM
Re: You poor Brits - by Arthes - 11-07-2005, 09:18 PM
Latest Episode of HBO\'s Rome - by Narukami - 11-08-2005, 04:23 PM
Tunic Wars III - by ambrosius - 11-10-2005, 02:10 AM
Roman Helmet - by Graham Sumner - 11-10-2005, 03:49 PM
Follywood helmets - by ambrosius - 11-10-2005, 10:39 PM
Re: Follywood helmets - by Robert Vermaat - 11-11-2005, 12:24 AM
Re: Follywood helmets - by ambrosius - 11-11-2005, 01:44 AM
Roman Helmet - by Graham Sumner - 11-11-2005, 02:06 AM
Re: Follywood helmets - by Marius_Ursus - 11-18-2005, 04:22 PM
Re: HBO\'s "Rome" to present more realistic look at the - by DAN OF BRITANNIA - 12-15-2005, 12:08 PM
Rome in summer 2006 in German TV - by Uwe Bahr - 01-07-2006, 03:44 PM
Re: HBO\'s "Rome" to present more realistic look at the - by Anonymous - 01-23-2006, 09:34 PM
Re: HBO\'s "Rome" to present more realistic look at the - by Anonymous - 01-23-2006, 11:49 PM
Rome Returns - by Narukami - 04-28-2006, 06:57 PM
Re: Rome Returns - by Robert Vermaat - 04-28-2006, 10:28 PM
Re: Rome Returns - by Marius_Ursus - 05-02-2006, 08:16 PM
HBO\'s Rome on DVD this August - by Narukami - 06-14-2006, 08:51 PM
Rome on DVD - by Caius Fabius - 06-15-2006, 04:00 AM
Rome helmet - by Graham Sumner - 08-03-2006, 04:39 PM
out on DVD season I - by Caius Fabius - 08-15-2006, 03:39 PM
helmet - by Graham Sumner - 11-01-2006, 08:30 PM
Rome - by Graham Sumner - 01-15-2007, 08:58 PM
HBO Rome -- A Battle At Last... - by Narukami - 02-12-2007, 04:12 PM
Rome beefs - by bigdummy - 02-19-2007, 06:06 PM
Re: Rome beefs - by stevesarak - 02-19-2007, 06:36 PM
Re: Rome beefs - by bigdummy - 02-19-2007, 06:50 PM
Re: Rome beefs - by stevesarak - 02-19-2007, 07:09 PM
Re: Rome beefs - by Narukami - 02-19-2007, 08:29 PM
re: pila - by rkmvca1 - 02-25-2007, 06:10 AM
Re: re: pila - by SOCL - 02-25-2007, 06:35 AM

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