HBO's: Rome
Created by: * Jot Ariston, 2009-07-14 11:54:02
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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.
PulloTalk (104 posts)
The "Rome" Wine Bar (352 posts)
Rome's Historical Characters (54 posts)
Meet Caesar, Cicero, Cato, Brutus, Pullo, Vorenus, and the scheming women of Rome.
LOL - true, Topi (* Heraklia Aelius, Mar 16, 2007 - 11:15 )
But, but, but, Herky, and a blue one at that... (* Topiltzin Tupac, Mar 16, 2007 - 11:03 )
Poscam amo! (* Mamerca Aemilius, Mar 16, 2007 - 06:23 )
All 54 posts...
Episode V: The Ram Has Touched the Wall (26 posts)
Episode VII: Pharsalus (24 posts)
Rome 2: Episode XIII: Passover (25 posts)
ROME 2, Episode XVI: Testudo et Lepus (20 posts)
Rome 2: Episode XIV: Son of Hades (19 posts)
ROME 2: Episode XV: These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero (19 posts)
Episode IV: Stealing from Saturn (13 posts)
ROME 2 Episode XX: A Necessary Fiction (21 posts)
Rome 2, Episode XVII: Heroes of the Republic (15 posts)
Rome 2 Episode XXI: DEUS IMPEDITIO ESURITORI NULLUS (NO GOD CAN STOP A HUNGRY MAN) (22 posts)
ROME 2 Episode XIX: Death Mask (25 posts)
Episode XII: Kalends of February (25 posts)
Rome 2 Episode XVIII: PHILIPPI (24 posts)
Episode VIII: Caesarion (115 posts)
Rome 2 Episode XX(FINAL): De Patre Vostro (17 posts)
Episode XI: The Spoils (18 posts)
Episode X: TRIUMPH (12 posts)