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When are there Roman armour and gladiuses in the remake of 'Clash of The Titans'? I have only seen the movie once but I remember the Greeks looking more accurate than most recent movie hoplites - more 5th Century BC accurate, I mean! - with metal thorax armour, xiphos swords, greaves, aspis shields, and perikaphalaia ("Corinthian helmets")... and the images on google seem to confirm this:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/clash-of-the-titans/images/f/fb/Wrath_SS_25.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120106173539

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/greek-sentries-pose-for-a-portrait-at-the-world-premiere-of-the-clash-picture-id526245100

Compare to historical reconstructions of hoplites (7-5th Centuries):

This is a Roman legionary:

Only Tribunes looked remotely similar to the Greeks of 'Clash of The Titans' but not enough.

"One episode was devoted to Bacchae, and thus featured Bacchus in a major role. As opposed to, say, Dionysus."-Is actually a uniquely complicated case

Bacchus is a actually used in both Greece and Rome, the name probably not being Indo-European in origin at all. The Strictly Roman name for Dionysus was Liber. But they knew the name Bacchus pretty well because of a Bacchus themed cult the migrated into Rom around 200 B.C.