Bull's Blood Baths Bogus Bullshit

HBO Rome.html: "Perhaps the most glaring error/anachronism took place in the first episode, when Atia took a shower in bull�s blood. This ritual was called the taurobolium; it was practiced by the eunuch priests of Cybele and also by the male adherents of the cult of Mithras, which became a major rival to Christianity...but the earliest known performance of the taurobolium in Rome was about a century after ROME takes place. A hundred-year anachronism may not seem a big deal, but imagine watching a drama about the American Civil War...and seeing Hare Krishnas chanting in railway stations! "

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At 62, Englishman Anthony Everitt recalls taking precisely one science course in high school. But he knew his classics ... According to Everitt, it is the toothsome stew of civility, theaters, dinner parties, politics and "paroxysms of really appalling violence" that continues to mesmerize. After Cicero was murdered, his head and right hand were hammered to the speakers' platform in the Roman Forum. But first, the wife of one of his enemies, Fulvia, reportedly stuck hairpins through the great orator's tongue.