Nero’s Men Wear Purple in “Pompeii”
In the movie “Pompeii,” Kiefer Sutherland plays Nero, who was one of the last Roman Emperors. In the film he’s seen wearing purple along with his top men, but his top men would not have been wearing that color. The dye would have existed back then, but Nero actually made wearing purple a crime punishable by death for anyone else aside from himself.