Rome is a multiple Emmy Award-winning historical drama, produced in Italy for television by the BBC (UK), HBO (USA), and RAI (Italy). The show's first season originally aired on HBO between August 28 and November 20, 2005, subsequently broadcast on BBC One between November 2, 2005 and January 4, 2006, and on Rai Due between March 17 and April 28, 2006.
The show's second and final season opened on January 14, 2007 and ended on March 25, 2007 in the USA. In the UK the second season started on June 20, 2007, on BBC Two and ended on July 24, 2007.
While chronicling the lives and deeds of the rich, powerful and "historically significant," the series also focuses on the lives, fortunes, families and acquaintances of two common men: Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, two Roman soldiers mentioned historically in Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico. The fictionalized Vorenus and Pullo manage to witness and often influence many of the historical events presented in the series.
Season 1 depicts Julius Caesar's civil war of 49 BC against the traditionalist conservative faction in the Roman Senate, his subsequent rise to absolute dictatorship over Rome and his eventual fall, spanning the time period from the end of his Gallic Wars (52 BC or 701 ab urbe condita) until his assassination on March 15, 44 BC (the infamous Ides of March). Against the backdrop of these cataclysmic events, we also see the early years of the young Octavian, who is destined to become the first Emperor of Rome, Augustus.
Season 2 chronicles the power struggle between Octavian and Mark Antony following Caesar's assassination, spanning the period from Caesar's death in 44 BC to Octavian's final defeat of Antony at Actium in 31 BC.
Lucius Vorenus - Kevin McKidd
Titus Pullo - Ray Stevenson
Julius Caesar - Ciaran Hinds (Season 1; cameo in Season 2)
Pompey Magnus - Kenneth Cranham (Season 1)
Atia of the Julii - Polly Walker
Mark Antony - James Purefoy
Marcus Junius Brutus - Tobias Menzies
Servilia of the Junii - Lindsay Duncan
Niobe - Indira Varma (Season 1; cameo in Season 2)
Gaius Octavian - Max Pirkis (Seasons 1/2), Simon Woods (Season 2)
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