2000
170 min
Every city has its secrets.
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world. The Republic was founded on principals of shared power, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling...and two soldiers unwittingly become entwined in the historical events of ancient Rome. A drama of love and betrayal, masters and slaves, husbands and wives, Rome chronicles a turbulent era that saw the death of a republic and the birth of an empire.
S02: With the 44 B.C. assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar and the near-simultaneous death of Niobe, wife of Caesar's faithful bodyguard Lucius Vorenus. Diverted from his post after learning that Lucius, his assumed grandson, was in fact Niobe's illegitimate son, Vorenus now descends into near-madness over his failure to protect Caesar, his role in his spouse's death, and the rumored murder of his estranged daughters.
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Premiere DateAug 28, 2005
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- Kevin McKidd as Lucius Vorenus
- Ray Stevenson as Titus Pullo
- Ciarán Hinds as Julius Caesar
- James Purefoy as Mark Antony
- Polly Walker as Atia of the Julii
- Tobias Menzies as Marcus Junius Brutus
- Lindsay Duncan as Servilia of the Junii
- Nicholas Woodeson as Posca
- Kerry Condon as Octavia of the Julii
- David Bamber as Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Max Pirkis as Gaius Octavian
- Chiara Mastalli as Eirene
- Lee Boardman as Timon
- Ian McNeice as Newsreader
- Simon Woods as Gaius Octavian Caesar
- Tommaso Sacco as Centurion
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S02E03 These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Brutus and Cassius struggle to raise foreign armies to oppose the Cesarean party. Mark Antony's plans to change his post-consul proconsular governorship from Macedonia to Gaul are derailed when Cicero delivers an in-absentia message to the Senate, and throws his support behind Octavian. Vorenus struggles to contain an all-out gang war in the Aventine Collegium, of his own making,that he blames on Pullo. In the house of the Julii, Octavia passes the hours in a drug induced daze, while a duplicitous youth named Duro, planted amongst the Julii by Servilia, looks for the chance to set a deadly plan in motion.
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