Arthur, also known as Artorius Castus (Clive Owen), is portrayed as a Roman cavalry officer, the son of a Roman father and a Celtic mother, who leads a military force of Sarmatian auxiliary cavalry in Britain at the close of the Roman occupation in 467 A.D. He and his men guard Hadrian's Wall against theWoads, a Celtic people who resist Roman rule, based on the historical Picts,[1] led by the mysterious Merlin (Stephen Dillane). He is not the first...
