What is it about Ancient Rome that keeps bringing back film and television makers? Art, plays, film and television have long plundered this time period for inspiration and ideas. Is it the memory of a civilization that appears to be a lot closer to the modern world than say the Middle Ages or the Renaissance? An era that serves as a mirror - and warning - to all great world powers that followed it after?? These are all important questions but the real magic of this era is that you can show people a thoroughly immoral world this means cruelty, blood, gore and sex. Here is a clue:Spartacus! Spartacus!! Spartacus!!!