In this British costume drama, the turbulent transition from Roman republic to autocratic empire, which changed world history trough civil war and wars of conquest, is sketched both from the aristocratic viewpoint of Julius Caesar, his family, his adopted successor Octavian Augustus, and their political allies and adversaries, and from the politically naive viewpoint of a few ordinary Romans, notably the soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo and their families.
Includes Episodes:
The Stolen Eagle
How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic
An Owl in a Thornbush
Stealing from Saturn
The Ram Has Touched the Wall
Egeria
Pharsalus
Caesarion
Utica
Triumph
The Spoils
Kalends of February
Passover
Son of Hades
These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Testudo et Lepus (The Tortoise and the Hare)
Heroes of the Republic
Philippi
Death Mask
A Necessary Fiction
Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus (No God Can Stop a Hungry Man)
De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)