Will You see Gibson's "The Passion"?

[The_Rorschach]

"Funnier yet is the fact that the Latin is perhaps 5the largest historical innacuracy. While some of the players (pilot certainly) would have known Latin, the common tongue was Greek. The Roman army and the Roman civil service were multicultural, and the language they all had in common and spoke to each other wasn't Latin, it was Greek."

That is a debatable point Herr Burbank. See, though Greek was a far more popular language, it was fashionable to be as Roman as possible even outside of the Roman Empire. I mean, just consider the remarkable leverage Paul recieved once he claimed his Roman citizenship - An appearance before Caesar himself in Rome, if memory serves. In a society where every privilege could be bought, from the citizenship to the broad strip on their toga, true cultural currency was covetted - And for good reason.

You say it is innaccurate that they mostly spoke Latin, but from everything I have studied from the period, I would say its a fair representation. Sure, languages mixed promiscuously, but the common tongue of the Roman soldiers, and their sycophants and sympathizers would still have been Latin. I mean, would you say a documentary on 20th Century California filmed a few hundred years from now should be spoken in Spanish because there are large segments of the population that are ignorant of the Queen's English?