For one thing, it's been 10+ years since I had a TV in my house, and I have never seen Caligula OR Sparticus.
For another, you keep citing emperors and senators, then saying that's how the common man was. Then you say we have no writings about the common man, but its okay, because we have a wealth of written records about day-to-day life and the common man.
*Now* you're babbling irrelevant crap about mortality rates as if showed anything but your own pompous propensity to bluster loud wet farts from your mouth!
Shut up! Read Pliny the Elder or Plutarch or someone and *decide* what you think, or just have another scotch and go to freaking bed.