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Rome premiered on HBO on August 28, 2005. The year is 52 B.C. Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. The ruling class has become extravagantly wealthy, with a precipitous decline in the old values of Spartan discipline and social unity. There is now a great chasm between the classes. Legal and political systems have weakened, and power has increasingly shifted to the military. After eight years of war, Gaius Julius Caesar has completed his masterful conquest of Gaul, and is returning to Rome. He brings with him legions of battle-hardened, loyal men, unimaginable riches in slaves, gold and plunder, and a populist agenda for radical social change. The aristocracy is terrified, and threatens to prosecute him for war crimes if he enters Rome. The delicate balance of power lies in the Senate with Caesar's old friend, partner and mentor, Pompey Magnus. Such is the situation when two soldiers of Caesar's 13th Legion, Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, are ordered into the wilds of Gaul to retrieve their legion's stolen standard, the unifying symbol of Caesar's legion, setting off a chain of circumstances that will entwine them in pivotal events of ancient Rome. An intimate drama of love and betrayal, masters and slaves, and husbands and wives, Rome chronicles epic times that saw the fall of a Republic and the creation of an empire.
Cast
Character
Actor
Lucius Vorenus
Kevin McKidd
Titus Pullo
Ray Stevenson
Julius Caesar
Ciaran Hinds
Pompey Magnus
Kenneth Cranham
Atia Of The Julii
Polly Walker
Marc Antony
James Purefoy
Marcus Junius Brutus
Tobias Menzies
Servilia Of The Junii
Lindsay Duncan
Niobe
Indira Varma
Gaius Octavian
Max Pirkis
Octavia Of The Julii
Kerry Condon
Quintus Pompey
Rick Warden
Porcius Cato
Karl Johnson
Marcus Tullius Cicero
David Bamber
Timon
Lee Boardman
Episodes
Season 1 (2005-2006)
(12 Episodes In Season 1)
The Stolen Eagle (Original Air Date 8/28/2005)
How Titus Pullo Brought Down The Republic (Original Air Date 9/4/2005)
An Owl In A Thornbush (Original Air Date 9/11/2005)
Stealing From Saturn (Original Air Date 9/18/2005)
The Ram Has Touched The Wall (Original Air Date 9/25/2005)
Egeria (Original Air Date 10/2/2005)
Pharsalus (Original Air Date 10/9/2005)
Caesarion (Original Air Date 10/16/2005)
Utica (Original Air Date 10/30/2005)
Triumph (Original Air Date 11/6/2005)
The Spoils (Original Air Date 11/13/2005)
Kalends Of February (Original Air Date 11/20/2005)
Season 2 (2006-2007)
(10 Episodes In Season 2)
Passover (Original Air Date 1/14/2007)
Son Of Hades (Original Air Date 1/21/2007)
These Being The Words Of Marcus Tullius Cicero (Original Air Date 1/28/2007)
Testudo Et Lepus (Original Air Date 2/4/2007)
Heroes Of The Republic (Original Air Date 2/11/2007)
Philippi (Original Air Date 2/18/2007)
Death Mask (Original Air Date 3/4/2007)
A Necessary Fiction (Original Air Date 3/11/2007)
Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus (Original Air Date 3/18/2007)
Rome premiered on HBO on August 28, 2005. The year is 52 B.C. Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. The ruling class has become extravagantly wealthy, with a precipitous decline in the old values of Spartan discipline and social unity. There is now a great chasm between the classes. Legal and political systems have weakened, and power has increasingly shifted to the military. After eight years of war, Gaius Julius Caesar has completed his masterful conquest of Gaul, and is returning to Rome. He brings with him legions of battle-hardened, loyal men, unimaginable riches in slaves, gold and plunder, and a populist agenda for radical social change. The aristocracy is terrified, and threatens to prosecute him for war crimes if he enters Rome. The delicate balance of power lies in the Senate with Caesar's old friend, partner and mentor, Pompey Magnus. Such is the situation when two soldiers of Caesar's 13th Legion, Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, are ordered into the wilds of Gaul to retrieve their legion's stolen standard, the unifying symbol of Caesar's legion, setting off a chain of circumstances that will entwine them in pivotal events of ancient Rome. An intimate drama of love and betrayal, masters and slaves, and husbands and wives, Rome chronicles epic times that saw the fall of a Republic and the creation of an empire.
