August 28, 2005 - March 25, 2007
HBO Historical Drama - 22 Episodes
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The series is a historical drama depicting the period of history
surrounding the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire;
a change driven by civil warfare between populists and conservatives, the decay of
political institutions, and the actions of ambitious men and women.
Half a century before the dawn of Christianity,
Rome has become the wealthiest city in the world,
a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people — epicenter of a sprawling empire.
Founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition,
the Republic was created to prevent any one man from seizing absolute control.
It is a society where soldiers can rise up from provincial commoners to become
national heroes, even leaders of the Republic. But as the ruling class became
extravagantly wealthy, the foundations have crumbled, eaten away by corruption
and excess, and the old values of Spartan discipline and
social unity have given way to a great chasm between the classes.
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.
"Rome" is the saga of two ordinary Roman soldiers and their families.
An intimate drama of love and betrayal, masters and slaves, and husbands and wives,
it chronicles epic times that saw the fall of a republic and the creation of an empire.
The series begins in 52 BC, as Gaius Julius Caesar has completed his masterful
conquestof Gaul after eight years of war, and is preparing to return to Rome.
He heads home with thousands of loyal battle-hardened men, huge amounts
of loot in gold and slaves, and a populist agenda for radical social change.
Terrified, the aristocracy threatens to prosecute Caesar for war crimes as soon as
he sets foot in Rome. Caesar's old friend and mentor, Pompey Magnus, attempts to
foment mutiny in order to maintain the balance of power.
Two of Caesar's soldiers, Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, thwart Pompey's plan and in
the process, win the eternal gratitude of Caesar and the Julian clan, affording the
two plebian officers an intimate view of the ruling class.
The fates of Pullo and Vorenus become entwined with those of Caesar, Mark Antony, Cleopatra
and the boy Octavian, a strange and awkward child who, by political guile
and bloody force, will become the first emperor of Rome.
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