Ben-Hur: Reflections of Culture

Roman has a lot of things they are connected with Greek. Roman respect their leaders very well, so when they are welcoming the leader, they will have big parades, and everyone made a long path for the leader to go. In the parade, there are people playing formal serious music to show that important people are coming, and people spill/spray flowers to make the path look pretty, the important people such as leader ride on a cart thing with 3 horses pulling it. The palace of the emperor is really huge, and there is a long stairs to go up to the palace. The emperor usually sit in the center of the place where the emperor can see everybody on top. The palace looks really formal, solemn, there are 2 fire sets on each side of the emperor, there is also a big bird thing which I think they put it because it looks strong and hard to defeat, and they have their empire flags around the palace. The emperor is a really big and important person, so everything that he wants has to be done, even if it might be bad. When the emperor swing his hands around the crowd, everybody starts clapping and cheering, and when he make a stop hand gesture, then the entire crowd stops talking directly, this thing shows that the emperor has a lot of the power.

Roman soldiers, leaders, and emperor dine together a lot, it's like they are having diner party. In the diner party, there are people performing dancing, and after they watch the performance, they have kind of like maids to serve them food. There are rich man from countryside that likes horses. Roman people wears different clothes when they are having dinner, they wear a kind of robe with a scarf-ish thing tied around the waist.

There is a disease that is pretty bad in Roman, it's called the "Liversity", or something like that, it is a disease that his/her skin might get ruin or destroyed, because you are really sick, the disease passes, when the person has that disease breathes on you, then you will get the disease too. This is so far what I seen for Roman culture from this Ben-Hur movie.