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* The Gallic forces in the opening battle sequence of the first episode are equipped like a bizarre fusion of fantasy barbarians and bronze age Celts and charge wildly at the Roman lines in a disorganized rabble. In reality, the Gauls would have been equipped with different (and less outrageous) gear and fought in a standard massed formation.

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* The Gallic forces in the opening battle sequence of the first episode are equipped like a bizarre fusion of fantasy barbarians and bronze age Celts and charge wildly at the Roman lines in a disorganized rabble. In reality, the Gauls would have been equipped with different (and less outrageous) gear not too dissimilar to that of the Romans (who got their famous helmets and lorica hamata ''from'' the Gauls) and fought in a standard massed formation.

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