400 years after the Republic's birth Rome has become the wealthiest city in the world, home to over 1 million people and the epicentre of one of the greatest empires history has ever known, but with this phenomenal success has come corruption and excess, the very principles of Rome's founding fathers are under threat and its time as a Republic is drawing to a close. Rome is a magnificent and full blooded dramatisation of the Empire's rebirth.
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ROME SEASON 1 DISC 2 (2005)
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400 years after the Republic's birth Rome has become the wealthiest city in the world, home to over 1 million people and the epicentre of one of the greatest empires history has ever known; but with this phenomenal success has come corruption and excess, the very principles of Rome's founding fathers are under threat and its time as a Republic is drawing to a close. Rome is a magnificent and full blooded dramatisation of the Empire's rebirth.
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ROME SEASON 2 DISC 1 (2007)
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Taking off exactly where Season 1 finished. Passover; Caesar is dead, but Mark Antony is still alive and is convinced by Octavian, via Atia, to stay in Rome. Caesar's will is read out and Octavian and Antony have a quarrel. Friends, Romans, Countrymen Lend Me Your Ear.... (they left that bit out).... and Son of Hades; Lucius Vorenus takes a walk on the dark side.
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ROME SEASON 2 DISC 2 (2005)
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These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero; Marcus Agrippa has come to Rome on Octavius's behalf to negotiate with Cicero and Vorenus continues his dark reign over the Aventine. Antony tries to bully Cicero in to handing over Gaul to him, but Cicero baulks and flees to join Octavian. Testudo et Lepus; Octavian's forces defeat, but do not wipe out, Antony's. Vorenus and Pullo rescue the former's children and Brutus and Cassius's forces in Asia Minor grow stronger.
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ROME SEASON 2 DISC 3 (2005)
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Heroes of the Republic; Octavian returns to Rome and tries to seize power but risks defeat by the scheming Cicero. Octavian and Antony ally against Brutus and Cicero. Philippi; the battle of Philippi takes place.
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ROME SEASON 2 DISC 4 (2005)
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Death Mask; Servilia squats outside Atia's home and Octavian and Antony stitch up a political marriage between the two families. A Necessary Fiction; Octavian takes a bride and Antony returns to Egypt.
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ROME SEASON 2 DISC 5 (2005)
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Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus; Antony spends his time wearing make-up, and in bed with Cleopatra, and Atia and Octavia arrive in Egypt only to be humiliatingly rebuffed. De Patre Vostro; following his defeat at Actium, by Agrippa, Antony falls on his sword and Cleopatra has a date with an asp. Finally, while peace reigns in Rome, Caesarion, in true shaggy dog style, finds out his his real dad is!
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THE TWELVE TASKS OF ASTERIX (1976)
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Caesar offers the villagers a deal, if they can successfully complete 12 tasks he will hand over the Empire, if not, they must surrender…fortified by magic potion Asterix is well up for it. Loosely based round the Twelve Tasks of Hercules.
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THE TWELVE TASKS OF ASTERIX (1984)
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The Romans are beginning to suspect that our invincible heroes are really gods, so Caesar offers the villagers a deal, if they can successfully complete 12 tasks he will hand over the Empire, if not, they must surrender….. fortified by magic potion Asterix is well up for it. Here they are; 1) Run faster than Asbestus, champion of the Olympic Games. 2) Throw a javelin farther than Verses, the Persian. 3) Beat Cilindric, the German. 4) Cross a lake! 5) Survive the hypnotic gaze of Iris, the Egypti
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