Several gross departures from historical plausibility in the fiction have been described, including the "unfortunate"
onomastics chosen for the rebels, featuring Roman, Greek or even Persian names, or the notion of the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula sharing a sort of common "patriotic consciousness" describing themselves collectively as "
Hispanos" , when rather tribal societies with different languages existed at the time. Likewise, the series moves the association of the myth of Viriathus from the Lusitanian space to a "more fluid" Iberian space. Hence, in the light of a number of historical inacuraccies and the problematic nature of the recreated imaginaries, Elena Cueto Asín and David R. George argue that "
Hispania, la leyenda crosses the boundaries of what is dramatically permissible in historical fiction". According to Fernando Gil González, the series, based on "the old '
Schultenian' precepts of
nationalist and romantic nature", "is an outdated soap opera based on out-of-context anachronistic events and falsified data about the figure of Viriato". == Accolades ==