User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 304: A Magical War Game, Review/@comment-5616268-20121022202332/@comment-4933386-20121029140214

A lot of animes and movies based on Roman Histories... and you should read some of the previous Sorcerer's Magazines in this wiki, they've got a page called Real Tail which contains some of the real life histories in some names of the anime...