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• Revealing mistakes: In the charge that precipitates the climactic battle, the legionaries of the Roman front line are shown advancing with shields in the left hand, swords in the right. Except for one in the lower foreground: his right hand is empty, he is advancing into combat with only a shield. As soon as he makes contact with a member of the rebel army, he falls on his back even though he hasn't actually been attacked yet.
  
  
• Factual errors: Pompey and Crassus are made "consuls of the Roman Empire". But there was no "Roman Empire" until Augustus was named Emperor by the Senate. At the time, there was only the Roman Republic. The proper title would have been "Consuls of the Republic".
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When it is revealed to Spartacus that his wife is pregnant he picks her up and yells, "I'm gonna have a son." This is obviously dubbed as his jaw fails to move at all
  
  

• Factual errors: At the end Caesar proposes Crassus and Pompeius made "Co-Consuls". Consuls were *always* elected in pairs in the Roman Republic, and they were *elected*, not chosen. When Agrippa says "Never in the history of the Republic" he's cut off before he can say what we think he says, but it's not true if he were going to say that Consuls never came in pairs. They always did, even in Imperial times.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Spartacus is fighting in the arena with sword and shield he has his sword in his right hand and shield in his left, except in one brief shot where the film was obviously reversed.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Spartacus is about to cut Crixus's throat, the fillings in Crixus's mouth are visible.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Spartacus kills a gladiator in the arena by slitting his throat after their fight. The dagger, clearly visible in the following shot, is clean.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Cinna has the scar over his left eye. When he runs out to fight Spartacus at the start of the slave rebellion, the scar is over his right eye. When he falls to the ground, it is back over his left eye again.
  
  

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