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The Roman Empire
With the release of Gladiator II in cinemas, Matthew Sweet brings us the music of the Roman Empire from Spartacus to Cleopatra and Quo Vadis to Ben Hur.
With the release of Gladiator II in cinemas, Matthew Sweet brings us the music of the Roman Empire - as told by Hollywood - from Alex North's scores for Spartacus and Cleopatra, Miklos Rozsa's epic music for the equally epic Quo Vadis and Ben Hur. Matthew also asks if the music we now think of as Roman sounds anything like what the Romans themselves would have heard.
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