'Hispania, the legend') is a Spanish adventure drama television series starring Roberto Enríquez, Lluís Homar, Ana de Armas, Juan José Ballesta, Jesús Olmedo, Manuela Vellés and Nathalie Poza, among others.
Set in the 2nd century BC in the Iberian Peninsula, it consists of a retelling of the myth around Lusitanian leader Viriathus and his resistance against Roman conquest efforts.
The plot consists of the retelling of the Viriatus' resistance against the Romans during the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in the 2nd century BC.
[1] The struggle of Viriatus (Roberto Enríquez), a humble and courageous shepherd, pits him against the Roman praetor Servius Sulpicius Galba (Lluís Homar).
[1] Several gross departures from historical plausibility in the fiction have been described, including the "unfortunate" onomastics chosen for the rebels,[13] featuring Roman, Greek or even Persian names,[14] or the notion of the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula sharing a sort of common "patriotic consciousness" describing themselves collectively as "Hispanos" [sic],[15] when rather tribal societies with different languages existed at the time.