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• LUCI VOREN"FORTUNE PISS ON ME."ONE OF THE TWO PROTAGONISTS. WE FIRST MEET HIM AS A CENTURN OF THE 13TH LEGN GL WHO HAS NOT SEEN HOME NOR HIS FAY FOR 8 YEARS AND WISH FOR NOTHG BUT TO GO BACK TO THEM. VOREN IS AN IMPECBLY HONT AND HONORABLE MAN WHO VALU TRADN, LAW AND LOYALTY TO THE ROMAN REPUBLIC ABOVE ALL... SOMETHG THAT WILL BRG HIM NUMERABLE PROBLEMS. PLAYED BY KEV MCKIDD. ABIVE PARENT: TO HIS DGHTERS AND TO NBE'S SON OCSNALLY, THOUGH HE FLIP-FLOPS. THIS IS DUE TO THE NASTY TEMPER MENTNED BELOW. BLASPHEMO BOAST: "I AM THE SON OF HADES, I FUCK CONCORD IN HER ARSE!" BASH BROTHERS: WH T PULLO. BATTLE CRY: "THIRTEEN!!!" BEARD OF SORROW: AFTER NBE AND CAAR'S ATH, AS WELL AS THE SUPPOSED ATH OF HIS CHILDREN. BERSERK BUTTON: PEOPLE WHO ARE DISLOYAL, AS THE GREEK MERCENARY WHO SUGGTED BETRAYG POMPEY FOUND OUT. BREAK THE HGHTY: HIS PRCIPL CMBLE WHEN NONTED BY REAL PROBLEMS THE HIGHER UP HE GO THE SOCIAL LADR. BREAK THEM BY TALKG: DO THIS TO CLEOPATRA BY POTG OUT THE AL SHE'S MA WH OCTAVIAN TO KEEP HER CROWN AND HER SON BY CAAR SAFE IS WORTHLS AS OCTAVIAN WON'T KEEP HIS WORD.CLEOPATRA: I'VE MA A PACT WH OCTAVIAN. I KEEP MY CROWN AND NO HARM WILL E TO MY PEOPLE.VOREN: OCTAVIAN MAY LET YOU HE N PARA YOU THROUGH THE FOM YOUR CROWN. TO ANTONY'S CHILDREN, HE WILL SHOW PUBLIC MERCY AND KDNS, BUT CAARN? ANOTHER SON OF CAAR? OCTAVIAN WILL KILL HIM!CLEOPATRA: [STARTG TO PANIC] NO! HE'S JT A CHILD!VOREN: HE'LL DIE. BODYGUARD BETRAYAL: ALBE AN ACCINTAL VERSN. CAAR PROMOT VOREN TO SENATOR AND ORRS THE MAN TO STAY BY HIS SI WHILE SHOWG HIM THE ROP, UNTG ON HIS REPUTATN TO TER ANY ASSASSATN. THE NSPIRATORS HAVG FOUND OUT THE SECRET OF HIS WIFE'S FILY, REVEAL THE SECRET ON THE DAY OF CAAR'S ASSASSATN SO HE WILL SH HOME STEAD OF FOLLOWG CAAR TO THE SENATE HOE. CANNOT SP IT OUT: HIS PHILOSOPHY OF STOICISM SERV HIM WELL WAR, BUT LEAV HIM VIRTUALLY UNABLE TO SPEAK OF SOFTER THGS.VOREN (TO NBE, SCERELY BUT LAMELY): IT SADNS ME THAT YOU ARE UNHAPPY. BEE I HAVE EP AFFECTN FOR YOU. CELIBATE HERO: DEVOTED TO HIS WIFE SPE BEG SEPARATED FOR YEARS ON MPAIGN. THOUGH HE IS SEEN HAVG SEX WH A PROSTUTE LONG AFTER NBE'S ATH. COLONEL BADASS: AS A CENTUR PRIM PIL, A "FIRST SPEAR CENTURN", HIS STAT AND RPONSIBILI APPROXIMATE (THOUGH NOT PLETELY, SEE DRILL SERGEANT NASTY BELOW) ROUGHLY TO THAT OF A LITENANT COLONEL A MORN ARMY. HE'S ALSO CENTURN OF THE PRIME (OR SIMPLY 1ST) COHORT, A HORT THAT WAS DOUBLE THE SIZE OF AN ORDARY HORT, RRIED THE LEGNARY EAGLE, AND WAS MA UP OF THE CREAM OF THE LEGN; TO MAND ONE WAS NSIRED THE ZENH OF A MON SOLDIER'S REER AND RRIED A GREAT AL OF PRTIGE. COMILLY MISSG THE POT: IN A DARK ATHBED GAG, HE BSH OFF HIS CHILDREN NOT WANTG TO SEE HIM SAYG: "THEY'RE STUBBORN LIKE THEIR MOTHER." COSMIC PLAYTHG: SEE HIS CHARACTER QUOTE ABOVE. CREEPY SOUVENIR: HE RRI A GERMANIC WARRR'S PENIS AS A LUCKY CHARM. HE ALSO KEEPS ERAST FULMEN'S HEAD AFTER PATG HIM. CULTURED WARRR: HE OFTEN C EXAMPL OM ROMAN HISTORY DURG HIS HONOR BEFORE REASON RANTS, SOMETIM TALKS ABOUT OTHER CULTUR (EG. THE EGYPTIAN GODS) AS IF HE'S READ UP ABOUT THEM AND THE REASON HE WAS SENT ON THE MISSN TO FD CAAR'S STOLEN EAGLE THE FIRST PLACE WAS BEE HIS SUPERR OFFICER THOUGHT HE WAS CLEVER. HIS BADASS QUALIFITNS ARE IMPECBLE. AS HE IS ON OPERATNS SI FOREIGN UNTRI, HIS POSN AS CENTUR PRIM PIL AND LATER PREFECT WOULD MEAN LEARNG ABOUT ENEMY CULTURE AND TRADNS WAS PART OF HIS JOB. DELIBERATE VALU DISSONANCE: MANY, BUT MOST NOTABLY ONE SUATN WHERE LUCI VOREN CIS THAT THE MOST ETHIL THG TO DO IS KILL A LTLE BOY. IT'S HEARTBREAKG TO SEE HOW TORN HE IS BETWEEN "DOG THE RIGHT THG" AND KILLG HIS WIFE'S BASTARD, AND LISTENG TO HIS STCT TO NOT KILL A CHILD. DRILL SERGEANT NASTY: ONE THE PILOT, MELLOWS LATER EPISOS. AS A CENTUR PRIM PIL THE OVERALL DISCIPLE OF THE LEGN WOULD BE ONE OF HIS (MANY) RPONSIBILI. FIERY REDHEAD: ROMANS LL ATTENTN TO HIS STRAWBERRY BLOND HAIR, WHICH IS FAIRLY RARE FOR A ROMAN. HE ADMS THAT HE LOOKS GLISH, BUT SISTS THAT HE'S A PURE-BORN ROMAN. IN SPE OF HIS STIFF PERSONALY, HE'S QUE HOT-BLOOD. FIRE-FED FRIENDS: WH PULLO, AND STRANGELY ENOUGH WH MARK ANTONY BY THE END OF THE SERI. ALTHOUGH VOREN DON'T APPROVE OF ANTONY'S HEDONISTIC WAYS, HE EVENTUALLY REALIS THEY SHARE THE SAME SELF-STCTIVE URG. HEROIC BSOD: ONCE THE UNSTOPPABLE RAGE HAS WORN OFF, VOREN HAS ONE OF THE AFTER BELIEVG HIS WHOLE FAY IS AD. PULLO GETS MARC ANTONY TO LIVER A GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF, MAN! AND GIVE HIM THE JOB OF NNG ROME'S UNRWORLD. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH PULLO. HISTORIL DOMA CHARACTER: THE SURVIVG WRGS OF THE ACTUAL, HISTORIL CAAR MENTN ONE 'LUCI VOREN', CENTURN. VERY LTLE ELSE IS KNOWN OF HIM, ALTHOUGH 'S SAFE TO ASSUME HIS IMPORTANCE HAS BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED. THE REAL LUCI VOREN ACTUALLY BELONGED TO THE 11TH LEGN. HONOR BEFORE REASON: MUCH OF HIS SENSE OF HONOR IS DELIBERATE VALU DISSONANCE, HOWEVER. HOW ABOUT A SE?: ALIENAT HIS OWN FAY ON HIS RETURN AFTER EIGHT YEARS MPAIGNG BEE HE HAS NO IA WHO TO TREAT THEM. FORTUNATELY VOREN REALIS HOW HE'S BEHAVG, AND IS WILLG TO TAKE ADVICE OM PULLO ON HOW TO SWEET-TALK WOMEN. HYPOCRE: HE'S AGHAST AT THE THOUGHT OF CROSSG THE RUBIN WH CAAR, BUT PROUDLY REUNTS HOW HIS FATHER "RO WH SULLA." SULLA WAS THE GENERAL AND DICTATOR WHO LNCHED A MILARY COUP A GENERATN BEFORE EXACTLY LIKE CAAR HAD DONE, AND UNLIKE CAAR SUBJECTED ROME TO A REIGN OF TERROR. THIS IS A SUBTLE WAY OF SHOWG THAT VOREN'S NSTUTNAL NSERVATISM IS HIGHLY NTEXTUAL. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: AS MUCH OF A SCREWUP AS HE IS AS A FATHER, HE DO LOVE HIS CHILDREN, AND DO HAVE SOME OF HIS OWN PERSONAL MORALS. MR. FANSERVICE: HE'S RATHER HANDSOME (AT LEAST BY MORN STANDARDS), AND GETS A FAIR AMOUNT OF SHIRTLS SCEN - THOUGH NOT ON THE SAME LEVEL AS MARK ANTONY. MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?: AFTER DRIVG HIS WIFE TO SUICI AND CHASG HIS CHILDREN AWAY WH HATEFUL CURS, HE VELOPS A THOAND-YARD STARE. MY MASTER, RIGHT OR WRONG: BEE OF HIS SENSE OF LOYALTY. NAïVE NEWER: VOREN'S MPAIGN AS MAGISTRATE EXPOS HIM TO THE DIRTY ALGS BEHD ROME'S SUPPOSED TO BE SACRED POLIL STUTNS. NO GUY WANTS TO BE CHASED: AS A TRADNALLY MD ROMAN MALE, VOREN REF HAVE SEX WH CLEOPATRA WHEN ORRED TO DO SO. SHE TAK OFFENSE SO HE SENDS PULLO TO PLATE HER, WHO HAS NO SUCH SCPL. NOT SO ABOVE IT ALL: THOUGH RATHER THAN BE ABOVE THE SILLS HE STARTED OFF ABOVE THE RPTN. VOREN EVENTUALLY GO OM BEG A HONORABLE SOLDIER TO THE GODFATHER OF ROME'S CRIMAL UNRWORLD. HE ROLLED HIS EY FOR PULLO SLEEPG WH PROSTUT, ONCE SGLE HE MORE OR LS WILL ONLY SLEEP WH PROSTUT AND IS ANNOYED WHEN GAIA REF TO TAKE MONEY. ODD COUPLE: WH PULLO. OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN: IT'S AMAZGLY FUNNY TO PARE THAT TO THE DIRTBAGS HE SERV, WHO WOULD SCREW ANYTHG THAT MOV. O.O.C. IS SER BS: WHENEVER VOREN WANTS TO DRK 'S A BAD SIGN. ANTONY CELEBRAT HIM CHUGGG A GLASS OF WE. PAPA WOLF: WILL GO TO ANY LENGTHS TO GET HIS CHILDREN BACK SEASON 2. UNFORTUNATELY THEY NEVER FIVE HIM FOR HAVG GOT THEM TO THAT SUATN THE FIRST PLACE. WHEN A DROVER'S SON APPEARS TO HAVE IMPREGNATED VORENA THE ELR (ACTUALLY NBE'S CHILD), HE POTS OUT THAT THIS ENTL HIM TO LEGALLY SLAY THE YOUNG MAN. VORENA PLEADS WH HIM AND HE GDGGLY NCES TO THEIR MARRIAGE. THE PATRIARCH: PLAYED FOR DRAMA; UNR ROMAN LAW HE HAS ABSOLUTE THORY OVER HIS FAY. HE N LEGALLY KILL HIS WIFE FOR FILY REGARDLS OF THE CIRCUMSTANC AND HER ILLEGIMATE SON AS WELL, AND POSSIBLY EVEN HIS OWN CHILDREN FOR HAVG ASSISTED HER THIS CEPTN. PERFECTLY ARRANGED MARRIAGE: WH NBE. AFTER A ROCKY START, THEY GROW TO LOVE EACH OTHER... OR AT LEAST HE DO. PERPETUAL FROWNER: VOREN SEEMS TO OWN EVEN WHEN HE S. PET THE DOG: HIS TREATMENT OF CAARN SHOWS A SOFT SI. PROFSNAL KILLER: ERAST FULMEN HIR HIM TO BE ONE, BUT VOREN HAS TROUBLE ACCEPTG AND QUS. THIS IS THE ORIG OF THEIR NFLICT. PUNCTUATED! FOR! EMPHASIS!: DELIVERS ONE TO CLEOPATRA WHILE MAKG NO ATTEMPT TO DISGUISE HIS DISGT AT THE FACT SHE DUCED ANTONY TO M SUICI WHILE ALG WH OCTAVIAN BEHD HIS BACK.CLEOPATRA: I LET YOU LIVE BEE ANTONY WAS FOND OF YOU. DO NOT TT ME NOW!VOREN: KISS. MY. ARSE! RED ONI, BLUE ONI: HE'S STIFF AND HONORABLE TO A FLT NTRAST TO PULLO'S MORE LACKADAISIL AND IMPULSIVE PERSONALY. IN THE SEND SEASON, HOWEVER, HIS EP-SEATED RAGE TO THE FOREONT, MAKG PULLO SEEM MORE SEDATE BY PARISON. REPORTS OF MY DEATH WERE GREATLY EXAGGERATED: HE WAS PRUMED AD DURG HIS EIGHT-YEAR MPAIGN GL. RETURNG WAR VET: TO HIS SORROW, HE REALIZ VLENCE IS HIS ONLY TALENT. ROCK BOTTOM: VOREN IS DISGRACED AFTER HIS FAILURE TO PROTECT CAAR, BUT REF TO M HONORABLE SUICI AS HE BELIEV HE SERV HIS TORMENT AFTER FAILG TO PROTECT HIS FAY AS WELL. AS HAPPENS THE ATH OF ERAST FULMEN HAS THROWN THE CY TO CHAOS AS RIVAL GANGS FIGHT FOR SUPREMACY, AND VOREN IS JT THE MAN MARC ANTONY NEEDS TO FIX THE SUATN; DISGRACED, BUT STILL BOUND BY OATH TO OBEY HIM. SO HE ORRS VOREN TO TAKE FULMEN'S PLACE. SANY SLIPPAGE: IN THE SEND SEASON HE IS GRAPPLG WH THE DISSOLUTN OF ROME, AND OF HIS FAY. HE N'T PE. 10-MUTE RETIREMENT - HOW MANY TIM HAS THIS MAN FAILED TO STAY AWAY OM POLICS? UNCERTA DOOM: IT'S NEVER SHOWN IF HE SURVIV HIS WOUNDS THE SEASON 2 FALE, DUE TO THE SERI BEG NCELLED. UNDYG LOYALTY: TO HIS LEGN, TO HIS CY, TO HIS IENDS - TO THE ATH. LAMPSHAD:OCTAVIAN: THAT MAN TURNS LOYALTY TO A VICE. UNSTOPPABLE RAGE: MORE THAN ONCE. BUT THE STAND-OUT EXAMPLE IS WHEN HE SLGHTERS ERAST FULMEN'S ENTIRE GANG. WHAT THE HELL, HERO?: VOREN HAS AN UNFORTUNATE AMOUNT OF THE. LAMPSHAD BY ONE OF HIS TERACTNS WH MARK ANTONY. VOREN HIMSELF HAD THIS REACTN WHEN PULLO KILLED ONE OF HIS SLAV JT BEE SAID SLAVE WAS A RELATNSHIP WH THE GIRL PULLO LOV. WHOLE-PLOT REFERENCE: NOT EXPLICLY ALLUD TO, BUT VOREN'S CHARACTER ARC (AN UPSTANDG ROMAN SOLDIER WHO SUFFERS OM TRANSNG TO CIVILIAN LIFE—AT THE EXPENSE OF HIS FAY AND LOVED ON—EVENTUALLY TRANSNG TO SOMEONE WHO RPECTABLE ROMAN SOCIETY SPIS) OW A LOT TO ANOTHER ROMAN FIGURE OF LEGEND: GNAS MARCI CORLAN—WHO WILLIAM SHAKPEARE HIMSELF MA A PLAY OUT OF. THE KEY DIFFERENCE IS THAT WHILE CORLAN SEEMS TO HAVE WILLED HIMSELF TO MECHANIL LACK OF SYMPATHY, VOREN'S CHARACTER IS WRTEN TO BE VERY DOWN TO EARTH, WHOSE FLAWS ARE VERY REGNIZABLE. WI-EYED IALIST: SORT OF. HE STILL BELIEV THE REPUBLIC, WHILE EVERYBODY ELSE SE AS ROTTEN TO THE RE. YOU, GET ME COFFEE: THE FIRST TIME THEY ARE EGYPT, VOREN HAS TO REMD PULLO TO GO FORM WH THE OTHER SOLDIERS. THEY ARE IENDS, BUT HE STILL OUTRANKS HIM. YOU OWE ME: ANTONY MANDS LOYALTY UNTIL ATH OM VOREN RETURN FOR TAKG HIM BACK TO THE LEGNS. HE GETS , AS VOREN IS THE ONLY MAN WHO STANDS WH ANTONY UNTIL THE END.T PULLO"HERE I E, GIRLS! I'M GONNA DRK ALL THE WE, SMOKE ALL THE SMOKE, AND FUCK EVERY WHORE THE CY!"THE OTHER PROTAGONIST. PULLO IS AN IMPULSIVE, BOISTERO AND WHOLLY IRREVERENT LEGNARY THE 13TH LEGN SERVG UNR VOREN, WHOM HE BEIENDS AFTER GOG ON A MISSN WH HIM. THE TWO THEN RETURN TO VOREN' HOE ROME AS HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS. PLAYED BY RAY STEVENSON. THE ALHOLIC: DRKS HEAVILY, AT LEAST EARLY ON THE SERI. ANTI-HERO: HE'S A MURRER WH A HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER, BUT HE'S ONE OF OUR HERO. ASCEND EXTRA: THE WRGS OF GAI JULI CAAR REALLY DO MENTN ONE 'T PULLO,' MEMBER OF HIS LEGNS. ALTHOUGH THE HISTORIL PULLO WAS A CENTURN, NOT A FOOT SOLDIER. THE REAL T POLLO BELONGED TO THE 11TH LEGN. BASH BROTHERS: WH VOREN. BATTLE CRY: "THIRTEEN!!!" BEEN THERE, SHAPED HISTORY: IT'S EVEN LAMPSHAD "HOW T PULLO BROUGHT DOWN THE REPUBLIC" WHERE PULLO'S GAMBLG PROBLEM AND MURR OF A NMAN CULMATED AN ATTEMPTED REVENGE KILLG THAT KICKED OFF CAAR'S EVENTUAL RETURN TO ROME AND HIM DISSOLVG THE REPUBLIC. BERSERK BUTTON: INSULTG THE 13TH LEGN. BLOOD KNIGHT: HE LOV TO FIGHT, AND HE'S GOOD AT . HE'S FIRST DISTGUISHED TO THE DIENCE THE FIRST EPISO BY BREAKG FORMATN ONCE HE'S ROTATED TO S ONT TO CRACK MORE HEADS FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN HE WANTS TO (AND GETS PUNISHED FOR THIS). BODY HORROR: GETS A SKULL ACTURE DURG A STREET BRAWL. THE TREATMENT OF THE TIME (CENTURI BEFORE THE VENTN OF ANTHETIC) A'T PRETTY. WH PULLO PHYSILLY RTRAED AND SCREAMG, A PHYSICIAN SAWS A HOLE HIS SKULL, TWEEZERS TO REMOVE SHARDS OF BRIS OM HIS BRA, AND NAILS A METAL PLATE PLACE OVER THE HOLE. THE NAILS ARE WHAT FALLY E PULLO TO BLACK OUT PA. BOISTERO BISER: PULLO IS VERY ROWDY, VERY LOUD AND VERY ADLY. BISER WH A SOFT CENTER: HE'S LIKE A BATN OF A TEDDY BEAR AND A GRIZZLY BEAR. CATCHPHRASE: PULLO LIK BRAGGG ABOUT HIS SEXUAL NQUTS, REAL OR IMAGED, ALMOST ALWAYS SCRIBG WOMEN AS "WET AS OCTOBER!" CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: HE TOOK A LEVEL KDNS AFTER MARRYG EIRENE. CHIVALRO PERVERT: WH EIRENE. CLTER F-BOMB: "I'M T FUCKG PULLO, CUNT!" COOL UNCLE: TAK ON THIS ROLE FOR THE CHILDREN AFTER VOREN LEAV THEM HIS RE. CRAZY JEALO GUY: KILLS EIRENE'S POOR LOVER, WHO WAS VERY KD, POLE, AND RPECTFUL TO HIM. EVEN BAD MEN LOVE THEIR MAMAS: PULLO IS A BTISH SOLDIER AND AN OCSNAL MURRER-FOR-HIRE (THOUGH NOT WHOUT HIS BETTER MOMENTS), BUT HE HONORS HIS SLAVE MOTHER'S MEMORY. FIRE-FED FRIENDS: HE AND VOREN ARE IALLY ENEMI, BUT THEIR SHARED EXPERIENC QUICKLY TURN THEM TO IENDS. FOIL: MOST OF HIS CHARACTER TRAS STAND NTRAST TO VOREN. WHERE HE IS MUTABLE, VOREN IS STIFF. WHERE PULLO IS A CHARMER, VORNEN IS DOUR. WHERE PULLO IS IMPULSIVE, VOREN IS RPONSIBLE. WHILE BOTH ARE PRONE TO STCTIVE RAG, PULLO IS MORE PRONE TO SUDN VLENCE, BUT ALSO MORE LIKELY TO SHG SOMETHG OFF. THE GAMBLG ADDICT: LAMPSHAD BY VOREN SEASON TWO. GLADIATOR GAM: PULLO IS SENTENCED TO FIGHT AND DIE THE ARENA. AFTER BEG PROVOKED HE KILLS FIVE OF THE GLADIATORS STEAD A MOMENT OF AWOME. HAPPILY MARRIED: TO EIRENE. EVEN THOUGH HE KILLED THE MAN SHE LOVED A F OF RAGE. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH VOREN. HEROIC BSOD: PULLO HAS ONE TOWARDS THE END OF SEASON ONE WHEN VOREN REJECTS HIM. AND ANOTHER ONE FOLLOWG EIRENE'S ATH. HOT-BLOOD: AS AN ILL-FATED SUOR OF EIRENE DISVERS. INTERGENERATNAL FRIENDSHIP: WH OCTAVIAN. INTERPLAY OF SEX AND VLENCE: WH GAIA AS THEY E CLOSE TO A "NOT IF THEY ENJOYED IT" RATNALIZATN. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: DPE HIS EXTREMELY QUTNABLE MORALS AND VLENT NATURE, HE IS VERY LOYAL AND IS VERY GOOD WH CHILDREN. AT LEAST TO CHILDREN OF HIS IENDS. HE ALSO ACTS AS A MENTOR TO OCTAVIAN, TEACHG HIM TO BEHAVE MORE "LIKE A MAN." LOVABLE SEX MANIAC: HE HAS NO MORAL STIGMA AGAST HAVG SEX WH ANY WOMAN WHO IS WILLG. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT: TO EIRENE. MALE FRONTAL NUDY: IN SEASON TWO. MAJOR INJURY UNRREACTN: YOU DONE WH FLOGGG ME? I WAS JT BEGNG TO ENJOY ... MURR THE HYPOTENE: HE IS ONLY ABLE TO MARRY EIRENE AFTER HE KILLS HER BETROTHED. BUT SHE ONLY BEGS TO E AROUND AFTER SEEG THAT HE REGRETS . NAY-THEIST: FOR MOST OF SEASON 1, PULLO IS MORE OFTEN THAN NOT NTEMPTUO OF THE GODS AND THE MORAL STANDARDS THEY SUPPOSEDLY REPRENT (NOT HELPED THAT HE IS SURROUND BY PEOPLE WHO ARE VETERATE HYPOCR ABOUT — EXCEPT MAYBE VOREN). COME SEASON 2, HIS GROWG MORAL PASS AND HIS WNSG OF VOREN'S FALL TO THE DPAIR EVENT HORIZON BEGS TO STIR SOMETHG HIM. NOMAL HERO: AN AFFABLE IEND AND ALLY WHO'D DO ANYTHG FOR THOSE HE R ABOUT. HE'S ALSO PABLE OF GROTQUE VLENCE AND MURR WHOUT A SEND THOUGHT OR A TWGE OF NSCIENCE. LAMPSHAD WHEN VOREN IS ASKED TO SUM UP HIS CHARACTER.CLEOPATRA: IS HE A GOOD MAN?VOREN: DEFE "GOOD." ODD COUPLE: HE AND VOREN ARE A STUDY OPPOS, BUT FORM AN UNBREAKABLE IENDSHIP. PROFSNAL KILLER: BE ONE WHEN VOREN THROWS HIM OUT OF HIS HOME. IT'S A FALLEN-ON-HARD-TIM JOB. RED ONI, BLUE ONI: IS THE RED TO LUCI'S BLUE. HE IS MORE IMPULSIVE, BUT ALSO MORE FLEXIBLE. IN THE FIRST SEASON, HE A LOT OF TROUBLE, BUT THE SEND SEASON, VOREN'S RIGIDY TO THE FOREONT. SCREW THE MONEY, I HAVE RUL!: CICERO ATTEMPTS TO BUY PULLO WHEN HE IS SENT TO ASSASSATE HIM, BUT PULLO CL THE OFFER AND DO THE JOB, EVEN THOUGH HE ADMIR THE MAN AND DON'T HI .CICERO: I HAVE A GREAT AL OF MONEY. I DON'T SUPPOSE...PULLO: SORRY. NORMALLY I'D BE TEMPTED, BUT YOU'RE FAR TOO IMPORTANT. IMAGE THE FS! I GET BACK AND I HAVEN'T DONE MY JOB! TORTURE TECHNICIAN: SUBVERTED. OCTAVIAN ASSUM PULLO'S VLENT NATURE AND YEARS THE ARMY HAVE GIVEN HIM PARTICULAR SKILL, OR AT LEAST GENERAL KNOWLEDGE, OF HOW TO TORTURE A MAN TO ATH. HE HASN'T, AS THE 13TH HAS S OWN DITED TORTURER, SO OCTAVIAN JT HAS PULLO CUT OFF THE MAN'S FGERS UNTIL HE STARTS TALKG. UNDYG LOYALTY: TO VOREN. THERE'S REALLY NOTHG PULLO WOULDN'T DO FOR HIM. HIS WIFE EVEN LAMPSHAS , PLAG THAT HE LOV VOREN MORE THAN HE LOV HER. UNSTOPPABLE RAGE: ONCE YOU GET HIM ANGRY YOU WILL REGRET . UNWTG INSTIGATOR OF DOOM: PULLO'S GAMBLG RELATED TROUBL AND ANTAGONISMS LEAD TO A BRAWL ONT OF THE SENATE WHICH BEGS TO TOPPLE THE REPUBLIC WHEN BE A POLIL CINT. LATER, HE GETS CLEOPATRA PREGNANT AND THAT SETS THE STAGE FOR HER DOWNFALL. WHAT DID I DO LAST NIGHT?: GETS DNK AND DON'T REMEMBER THAT HE LEFT EIRENE A TAVERN UNTIL VOREN ASKS WHERE SHE IS. AFTER SOME SEARCHG THEY FD THE RRECT TAVERN AND FD HER BEG HELD AS LLATERAL FOR AN UNPAID BAR TAB.NBE OF THE VORENI"I DON'T WANT PEOPLE DYG MY HOE!"VOREN' WIFE THROUGH AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE AND MOTHER OF TWO DGHTERS, BOTH NAMED VORENA. AT THE START OF THE SERI SHE HAS BEEN CHARGE OF THE VORENI HOEHOLD FOR EIGHT YEARS WHILE HER HBAND WAS AT WAR GL. SHE ALSO HAS A SON OM HER BROTHER -LAW WHO SHE TRI TO PASS OFF AS HER ELST DGHTER'S WHEN VOREN RETURNS HOME. PLAYED BY INDIRA VARMA. ALOOF BIG SISTER: TO LY. ARRANGED MARRIAGE: HOW HAPPY IS BATABLE. CASSANDRA TTH: SHE FEARS THAT THEIR RAPID SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT WILL LEAD TO THE FAT PUNISHG THEIR FAY. SHE'S RIGHT. DUE TO THE DEAD: HER CHILDREN AND SISTER BATHE AND DRS HER RPSE, SPE THE FEAR THAT VOREN WILL RETURN AND KILL THEM ALSO. A REMORSEFUL VOREN DO RETURN AND GIV HER A PROPER BURIAL. DRIVEN TO SUICI: AFTER VOREN DISVERS HER SECRET THE FIRST SEASON FALE. THE GLOR WAR OF SISTERLY RIVALRY: SHE'S UALLY AT ODDS WH HER SISTER, NOT LEAST DUE TO HAVG HAD AN AFFAIR WH HER BROTHER--LAW. GEO PERD DRS: EVEN MAK THEM HERSELF. HOEWIFE: NOT ONLY BEE OF HER HBAND'S TRADNAL ROMAN VALU, BUT BEE SHE HAD TO DO SO WHILE HE WAS AWAY MPAIGNG GL. I CHOOSE TO STAY: WHEN ERAST AND HIS GANG ARE G TO KILL THEM, SHE SENDS HER CHILDREN AWAY TO THE UNTRY BUT CHOOS TO STAY AND SHARE HER HBAND'S FATE. IRONY: GUS WHO END GOG AGAST THAT QUOTE? NOUVE RICHE: DOWNPLAYED; HER IENDS THK SHE'S PUTTG ON AIRS WHILE NBE FDS HERSELF BEG PATRONIZED BY THE LIK OF ATIA. SHE FEARS THEY ARE ADVANCG TOO FAR TOO FAST AND WILL ALL E CRASHG DOWN. TEEN PREGNANCY: NBE WAS ONLY 13 WHEN SHE MARRIED AND HAD CHILDREN. THIS WAS THE NORM ROMAN TIM.EIRENE"I'M PLEGANT! WHATEVER YOU LL !"A GERMANIC SLAVE THAT VOREN AND PULLO RCUE OM A BAND OF POMPEIAN SOLDIERS EARLY SEASON 1. PULLO IS STANTLY FATUATED WH HER, AND AFTER A WHILE HE HAS HER EED AND MARRI HER. PLAYED BY CHIARA MASTALLI. BETIFUL SLAVE GIRL: SHE'S QUE LOVELY, AND T PULLO IS IMMEDIATELY FATUATED WH HER. HOWEVER UNLIKE WHAT IS UAL FOR THIS TROPE SHE IS NOT A MS. FANSERVICE. BETTY: TO GAIA'S VERONI. CUTE MUTE: SHE SEEMS MUTE AT FIRST, BUT THIS IS REALLY JT A BATN OF BEG THE QUIET ONE AND HER LIMED KNOWLEDGE OF LAT. DAMSEL DISTRS: HOW SHE IS TRODUCED. POMPEY'S MEN PTURE HER FOR THEIR OWN E, AND PULLO E HER. DEATH BY CHILDBIRTH: DI AS A RULT OF BLOOD LOSS WHEN SHE MISRRI. INVOKED BY GAIA SECRETLY GIVG HER SILPHIUM, A (NOW EXTCT) PLANT ED TO DUCE ABORTN BACK ANCIENT TIM. EVIL TATED THE PLACE: WHEN PULLO IS TRYG TO SUPPORT VOREN THROUGH HIS HEROIC BSOD AFTER HIS FAY'S ATH, EIRENE WANTS TO LEAVE AS IF THEY MAKE A CHILD THERE WILL GROW UP TO BE A MONSTER. VOREN KEEPG A SEVERED AND ROTTG HEAD AS A CREEPY SOUVENIR DO NOT HELP THGS. KILL THE CUTIE: COURTY OF GAIA. LONGT PREGNANCY EVER: BEE OF HBO'S CISN TO NCEL THE SHOW THE SEND SEASON, THE WRG TEAM HAD TO PACT THE STORY L PLANNED FOR THE SEND, THIRD AND FOURTH SEASONS TO ONE ORR TO GIVE THE STORY SOME CLOSURE. THIS LED TO EIRENE REMAG PREGNANT DURG HISTORIL EVENTS THAT HAPPENED OVER THE SPAN OF TWO WHOLE YEARS. A MATCH MA STOCKHOLM: TO MORN EY HER AGREEG TO MARRY THE MAN WHO MURRED HER PREV FIANCE. HOWEVER OM HER POT-OF-VIEW THERE ARE GOOD REASONS FOR THIS — PULLO IS GENUELY REMORSEFUL AND SMTEN WH HER, AND FOR ALL HIS FLTS IS A POWERFUL PROTECTOR, ALLIED TO ANOTHER MAN WHO IS GOG UP THE WORLD. ONLY KNOWN BY THEIR NICKNAME: IT'S NOT UNTIL THE VERY LAST EPISO SHE IS THAT HER REAL NAME IS REVEALED - ALA. IN REAL LIFE, THE ROMANS ED TO GIVE THE SLAV NEW NAM BASED ON THEIR PERCEIVED QUALI. EIRENE PARTICULAR IS GREEK FOR "PEACE". THE RIVAL: TO GAIA. UNEQUAL PAIRG: PULLO PLETELY MISUNRSTANDS THEIR RELATNSHIP AT FIRST. IT'S NOT A RCUE ROMANCE — EIRENE IS GRATEFUL BUT ONLY SLEEPS WH PULLO BEE HE'S THE IEND OF HER MASTER AND SHE THKS SHE DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER CHOICE. SHE'S ACTUALLY LOVE WH ANOTHER SLAVE. PULLO BUYS HER EEDOM AND ONLY THEN FDS OUT SHE'S TENDG TO MARRY THIS MAN, WHOM HE THEN BEATS TO ATH A JEALO RAGE. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ACCENT?: HER GERMANIC ORIGS ARE NOT REVEALED UNTIL THE LAST EPISO SHE'S . WIDOWED AT THE WEDDG: PLAYED WH; ON THE DAY PULLO PROPOS TO HER, 'S VOREN WHO IS WIDOWED. YOU NO TAKE CANDLE: LEARNS TO SPEAK LAT BUT NOT PERFECTLY.THE VORENI CHILDRENVORENA THE ELR, VORENA THE YOUNGER AND LUCI. ALL OF THEM NAMED AFTER LUCI VOREN. BRATTY TEENAGE DGHTER: VORENA THE ELR, THOUGH SHE HAS BETTER REASONS THAN MOST FOR THIS TROPE. DECEASED PARENTS ARE THE BT: DUE TO THEIR POOR RELATNSHIP WH THEIR FATHER, THEY (PECIALLY VORENA THE ELR) TEND TO TURN A BLD EYE TO THE NUMERO WRONGS OF THEIR MOTHER NBE — NAMELY, THAT SHE CHEATED ON HER HBAND WH HER SISTER'S SPOE AND ME UP WH A LIE TO VER THE INTY OF THE CHILD SHE NCEIVED OM HER FILY, CLAIMG LTLE LUCI TO BE VORENA'S CHILD, WHICH KICKED OFF ALL THEIR FAY DRAMA THE FIRST PLACE. VORENA NEVER PLAS THAT HER MOTHER SACRIFICED HER HONOR TO SAVE HER OWN, POSSIBLY BEE WAS NBE WHO RAISED THEM WHILE VOREN WAS OFF TO WAR. THEY ARE ALSO PLETELY UNWILLG TO ACCEPT THAT VOREN DIDN'T KILL NBE. DEFILED FOREVER: VOREN REF TO FD A HBAND FOR ELR VORENA, AS HE BELIEV THAT ANYONE WHO WOULD ACCEPT A FORMER PROSTUTE WOULD NOT BE WORTHY OF HER. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: NBE'S ATH, FOLLOWED ALMOST IMMEDIATELY BY ERAST FULMEN TAKG AND SELLG THEM AS SLAV. EASILY FIVEN: THE CHILDREN WERE ENRAGED AT VOREN' FOR THE ATH OF THEIR MOTHER, AND WHEN HE SHOWS UP DYG THEY STILL DON'T WANT TO SEE HIM. BUT VORENA THE ELR EVENTUALLY RELENTS AND WEEPS AS SHE SE HIM ON HIS ATHBED. THE YOUNGER TWO ARE SEEN LOOKG SAD THE BACKGROUND. FAY THEME NAMG: AS WAS CTOM AT THE TIME BOTH OF VOREN' DGHTERS WERE NAMED FOR HIM (VORENA THE ELR AND VORENA THE YOUNGER). BABY LUCI HAS HIS GRANDFATHER'S (ACTUALLY STEPFATHER'S) FIRST NAME AND PRUMABLY GNOMEN AS WELL. HOT-BLOOD: YOUNG LUCI IS ALWAYS EAGER FOR A FIGHT. LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: WHEN ELR VORENA REF TO FIVE HER FATHER, SHE TELLS PULLO THAT WAS HER FATHER WHO TGHT HER TO BE SO HARD AND UNPROMISG. PULLO N ONLY AGREE. MA A SLAVE: BY ERAST FULMEN. THE MOLE: ELR VORENA BE ONE FOR MEMM TO SPE HER FATHER. NOT ALLOWED TO GROW UP: BEE OF HBO'S SCREWG THE SEND SEASON. OTHERWISE THE YOUNGER VORENI WOULD HAVE BEEN REST AT LEAST ONCE PER SEASON TO ACUNT FOR THE TIME PASSED. ONE-STEVE LIM: THE VORENAS. THIS WAS VERY MON BACK ANCIENT ROME, WOMEN'S NAME WOULD BE THE FEME VERSN OF THEIR FATHER'S. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: THEY HATE THEIR FATHER FOR KILLG THEIR MOTHER (EVEN THOUGH TECHNILLY WAS HER OWN FLT THAT SHE DIED) AND G THEIR DOWNFALL, SO LOOK TO PULLO AS A FAY PATRIARCH THEY N LIKE AND RPECT. WHEN VOREN RETURNS HOME UNEXPECTEDLY AFTER EVERYONE ASSUMED HE WAS AD, VORENA THE ELR HAS TO PRETEND THAT NBE'S CHILD IS HERS. FORTUNATELY THERE'S A YOUNG MAN EAGER TO MARRY HER WHO IS WILLG TO TAKE THE RISK THAT VOREN WILL LEGALLY KILL HIM FOR HAVG FILED HIS DGHTER OUT OF WEDLOCK. THE QUIET ON: ONLY VORENA THE ELR, PLAYED BY BRISH ACTRS CORAL AMIGA, HAD REAL L. THE YOUNGER CHILDREN WERE PLAYED BY ITALIAN ACTORS THAT DIDN'T KNOW ENGLISH. SEX SLAVE: VORENA THE ELR SEASON 2. STEPFORD SER: SHE PRETENDS TO LOVE HER FATHER, BUT EVENTUALLY THE FA CRACKS. TAKG THE VEIL: VORENA THE ELR TOWARDS THE END OF THE SERI, JOG HER NT LY THE TEMPLE. THIS IS UNFIVABLE!: NONE OF THEM FIVE VOREN FOR KILLG THEIR MOTHER, THOUGH 'S IMPLIED THEY RENCILE AT THE END.LY"YOUR HBAND IS A DAMN FOOL! YOU HEAR ME?! HE IS A FOOL!"NBE'S YOUNGER SISTER AND BARREN WIFE TO GREEK FISHMONGER EVANR. PLAYED BY ESTHER HALL. ANNOYG YOUNGER SIBLG: TO NBE. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: FIRST IS EVANR'S ATH, AND THEN SHE AND HER NEPHEW AND NIEC ARE MA SLAV. EASILY FIVEN: LY IMMEDIATELY IS AT VOREN ATHBED AND IS WEEPG. THE GLOR WAR OF SISTERLY RIVALRY: IS (QUE REASONABLY) UPSET WH NBE. TO HER CRED, THEY EVENTUALLY RENCILE, AS SHE TIR OF THEIR NFLICT. IN VO VERAS: SEEG HER HBAND PLAYG WH THE CHILD, SHE GETS JEALO AND THEN DNK, THREATENG TO TELL VOREN THE TTH. WHILE EVANR IS TRYG TO FORCE HER TO LEAVE, THEIR STGGLE BREAKS A HOEHOLD IDOL, A SIGN OF BAD LUCK. LAW OF INVERSE FERTILY: SHE N'T NCEIVE. HER SISTER HAS AN AFFAIR WH HER HBAND AND ENDS UP PREGNANT, GIVG BIRTH TO A SON NONE THE LS. MA A SLAVE: BY ERAST FULMEN. SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: SHE'S THE ONLY ONE OF VOREN' FAY WHO HAS SOME SYMPATHY FOR HIM AND EVEN FENDS HIM ONT OF HIS ANGRY CHILDREN, BEE SHE HAS BEEN WRONGED BY NBE AS MUCH AS VOREN. TAKG THE VEIL: HER WAY OF PG WH THE TRAGEDI SHE'S SUFFERED.EVANR PULCHLY'S HBAND, A GREEK FISH ALER. PULLO AND OCTAVIAN KILL HIM SECRETLY TO PROTECT THE VORENI HONOR.PLAYED BY ENZO CILENTI. COLD-BLOOD TORTURE: HE'S TORTURED FOR A LONG TIME BEFORE HE DI, STARTG WH HIS THUMBS BEG CUT OFF. GET IT OVER WH: FACED WH TORTURE HE IMMEDIATELY NFS TO SLEEPG WH NBE AND TELLS THEM TO GO AHEAD AND KILL HIM. PULLO IS ENTIRELY WILLG TO DO SO, BUT OCTAVIAN REALIS PULCH IS ONLY SAYG THIS TO AVOID REVEALG SOMETHG ELSE UNR TORTURE. EVENTUALLY HE BREAKS AND PLEADS WH THEM TO PUT HIM OUT OF HIS MISERY. INACTN DISTRACTN: HE NFS TO HIS AFFAIR WH NBE TO PROTECT HIS SON. UNFORTUNATELY OCTAVIAN ISN'T FOOLED AND SISTS THAT PULLO KEEP TORTURG HIM UNTIL HE BREAKS. NEVER FOUND THE BODY: BEE THEY THREW HIS BODY THE SEWER. PREPARE TO DIE: OCTAVIAN ADVIS HIM, UNEMOTNALLY, THAT HIS CHOIC ARE IMMEDIATE ATH OR SLOW, AGONIZG ATH. THIS IS UNFIVABLE!: BY ROMAN STANDARDS, HIS CRIME IS NOT ONLY SLEEPG WH ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE (WHICH WOULD EXPOSE VOREN TO RIDICULE) BUT GETTG HER PREGNANT WH HIS OWN CHILD. WHEN HE FALLY ADMS THIS, AN OUTRAGED PULLO MURRS HIM ON THE SPOT, WHICH WOULD ACTUALLY BE A MERCY BY THAT STAGE.    JULII HOEHOLD GAI JULI CAAR"OUR MEN MT W OR DIE. POMPEY'S MEN HAVE... OTHER OPTNS."THE FAMO ROMAN GENERAL AND STATEMAN TURNED DICTATOR. PLAYED BY CIARáN HDS. ACCINTAL HERO: HE SAVED VOREN' FAY OM BEG MURRED BY ERAST FULMEN AND HIS GOONS BY VIRTUE OF HIS TIMELY ARRIVAL WH AN ARMED RT, IMMEDIATELY SRG THE CRIMALS OFF. THE ACE: ROME'S FT GENERAL AND S NSUMMATE POLICIAN; NONE OF HIS NTEMPORARI OR SUCCSORS N MATCH HIM BOTH. WHILE OCTAVIAN IS A MORE THLS STATMAN, HE LACKS ANY KD OF ARY SKILL. WHILE ANTONY IS SOLDIER'S SOLDIER LOVED BY HIS LEGNS, HE IS CRASS, A TERRIBLE STATMEN AND HATED BY THE ROMAN POLIL ELE. AFFABLY EVIL: HIS MANIPULATIVE AND THLS MOMENTS ARE VERY EASY TO OVERLOOK THANKS TO HIS MAGIC AND SOFT-SPOKEN CHARISMA. ANTAGONIST MOURNG: CAAR IS VISIBLY DISTURBED WHEN PRENTED WH POMPEY'S HEAD, FOR NUMERO REASONS. NOT ONLY WAS POMPEY AN OLD, PERSONAL IEND OF CAAR, AND NOT ONLY DID HIS EXECUTN BY THE EGYPTIANS DISPT CAAR'S PLANS TO PUBLICLY FIVE HIS RIVAL, BUT THE ACT ALSO NSTUTED AN ACT OF WAR, AS POMPEY WAS STILL A HEAD OF STATE FOR THE ROMAN REPUBLIC. CAAR: HE WAS A NSUL OF ROME! ASSKICKG LEADS TO LEARSHIP: ONE OF THE REASONS WHY HE ROSE TO SUCH POWER. AT THE START OF THE SERI, HE'S JT FISHG THE NQUT OF GL, A FEAT FOR THE ANNALS OF HISTORY. HIS ALREADY NSIRABLE POWER AS PRONSUL AND SURVIVG TRIUMVIR BED WH HIS RENOWNED ARY GENI ALLOWS HIM TO BEE MASTER OF ROME NO TIME. HIS VICTORY OVER FORMER FELLOW TRIUMVIR POMPEY THE CIVIL WAR LEADS TO CAAR BEG CLARED DICTATOR FOR LIFE, PRACTICE A PROTO-EMPEROR AND KG ALL BUT NAME. BADASS CAPE: AS PER THE UNIFORM OF A ROMAN GENERAL. BENEVOLENT BOSS: HE TREATS POS LIKE A BELOVED BROTHER, REWARDS HIS SOLDIERS' LOYALTY, AND IS QUICK TO FIVE HIS OPPONENTS WHO SURRENR. BLOOD ON THE DEBATE FLOOR: HIS FAMO ATH. CHSMASTER: SUBVERTED; HIS PRAGMATIC VILLAY AND EMPATHY E HIM TO SPARE THE LIV OF HIS EVENTUAL ASSASSS. THOSE WHO FOLLOW HIS FOOTSTEPS DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE. THE CHOSEN ONE: HE GAS THIS STAT BY BRIBG THE CORPT CHURCH. COLD HAM: CAAR'S SOLEMNY IS UNMATCHED ROME. HIS EVERY SENTENCE REMBL A LECTURE, LIVERG PSED WISDOM WHOUT BEG SMUG, MOST OF THE TIME. CULTURE CLASH: THE EGYPTIANS PRENT HIM WH THE HEAD OF POMPEY, THKG THEY ARE GOG TO GA HIS FAVOR BY LIVERG THE HEAD OF HIS ENEMY. CAAR IS STEAD ENRAGED AT BEG PRENTED WH THE HEAD OF AN ELR STATMAN. DARK SECRET: CAAR HAS EPILEPSY AND IS TERRIFIED THAT ANYONE MIGHT FD ABOUT . THIS IS BEE ACRDG TO ROMAN TRADN EPILEPSY WAS A RULT OF HAVG BEEN CURSED BY THE GODS, AND THE PEOPLE WOULD REFE TO BEG LED BY A MAN SUBJECT TO . DIDN'T SEE THAT COMG: HIS LCULATED LENIENCY TOWARDS HIS POLIL ENEMI FAMOLY BE CAAR'S UNDOG WHEN A PLETHORA OF HIS REMAG ANTAGONISTS SUCCSFULLY NSPIRE TO ASSASSATE HIM. EASILY FIVEN: CAAR N BE THLS BUT MANAG TO F THIS TROPE FAIRLY WELL. HE SPAR VOREN AND PULLO SEVERAL TIM AND HIS RPONSE TO BT AND CICERO TRYG TO SURRENR IS TO HUG THEM, APOLOGISE TO BT WHILE KISSG HIS CHEEK, BEG THEM TO TELL HIM THAT POMPEY, AN EVEN BIGGER ENEMY, IS STILL ALIVE, AND THEN, DRAG THEM OFF TO HAVE FOOD SCE MT HAVE BEEN AWHILE SCE THEY HAD A CENT MEAL. MORE THAN ONE CHARACTER POTS OUT THAT FIVG PEOPLE IS CAAR'S SHTICK, DOG DOUBLE DUTY AS A WAY TO BE SEEN AS A REASONABLE AUTHORY FIGURE AND TO MAKE PEOPLE BEHOLN TO HIM. ACRDG TO THE DVD COMMENTARY THIS WAS ALSO A WAY OF HUIATG HIS ENEMI, GIVEN ROMAN VALU (IF HE'D CLAPPED BT AND CICERO CHAS, WOULD HAVE SHOWN THEM AS WORTHY OPPONENTS). ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: HE PRIVATELY MOURNS THE ATH OF HIS DGHTER, THEN SAYS "POMPEY WILL NEED A NEW WIFE". IT SHOWS HIS POLIL MDNS AND TENNCY TO E PEOPLE AS PAWNS. ET TU, BTE?: MIGHT NOT HAVE SAID THE WORDS, BUT HIS EY TOLD ANYWAY. FATAL FLAW: PRI. IT'S ONLY HUBRIS IF I FAIL. HORRIBLE JUDGE OF CHARACTER: HE UNRTIMAT BT AND NEVER FULLY GRASPED THE SHEER EXTENT OF SERVILIA'S HATRED FOR HIM. FATHER TO HIS MEN: TTH TELEVISN. CAAR TOOK GREAT RE OF HIS SOLDIERS AND KNEW MANY OF THEM BY NAME. THEY FOLLOWED HIM OUT OF LOVE, NOT DUTY. FOUR-STAR BADASS: ONE OF HISTORY'S MOST FAMO ARY MANRS FACT. LARGE HAM: JT OCSNALLY, VOKED AS A PART OF HIS PROJECTED PUBLIC PERSONA, BEG OVERLY THEATRIL HIS ENARMENT TOWARDS BT AND CICERO AND HIS SPEECH. THERE'S ALSO HIS DRSG DOWN OF VOREN AND PULLO, WHICH ADMTEDLY WAS A GREY AREA (SPE HAVG CLED TO PTURE POMPEY, THEY DID JT PROVE THEMSELV LOYAL AND DIFFICULT TO KILL):(DISCSG POMPEY) HOI POLLOI N UNRSTAND A REASON LIKE THAT. HE REF TO MEET ME FACE TO FACE, MAN TO MAN. [ MOCK ANGER] HE REF TO MEET ME!(AFTER VOREN ADMS HE LET POMPEY GO SPE REMAG A MAJOR THREAT) AND WHO BY THE SONS OF DIS GIV YOU THE RIGHT TO MAKE SUCH JUDGMENT?! LIKE A SON TO ME: OCTAVIAN, HIS GREAT-NEPHEW WHO HE POSTHUMOLY ADOPTS. BT AS WELL. THE MAN BEHD THE MAN: WHEN PULLO IS PTURED AFTER RRYG OUT A NTRACT KILLG FOR ERAST FULMEN, CAAR IS SPECTED OF BEG BEHD BEE THE MAN WAS A VOL OPPONENT OF CAAR AND PULLO WAS A FORMER MEMBER OF HIS LEGN. IT'S EVENTUALLY REVEALED THAT CAAR DID FACT PAY ERAST FOR THE H. MANLY TEARS: HE CRI WHILE NDUCTG POMPEY'S FUNERAL. MIGHT MAK RIGHT: HE'S PERFECTLY AWARE HE'S STAGG A ARY UP THAT NEEDS TO BE DRSED UP AS SOMETHG LEG, SO HE THE ASSLT ON TRIBUNE ANTONY AS A PRETEXT FOR WAR. NECSARY EVIL:POS: THE ROMAN PEOPLE ARE NOT CRYG OUT FOR CLEAN ELECTNS. THEY ARE CRYG OUT FOR JOBS. THEY ARE CRYG OUT FOR CLEAN WATER, FOR FOOD, FOR STABILY AND PEACE. NICE TO THE WAER: HE'S IENDLY TO HIS SLAVE SERVANTS. NOT SO STOIC: CAAR OFTEN APPEARS WARM AND GENIAL BUT EVEN THAT IS JT PART OF HIS IMAGE. HE FALLY LOS HIS OL WHEN VOREN RMS HIM HE REFED TO PTURE POMPEY. PHOTO OP WH THE DOG: HE'S BELOVED BY THE PEOPLE OF ROME. PHYSIL GOD: HE BEGS TO SEE HIMSELF AS THIS, TO ANTONY'S DISFORT. THE PLAN: TO LE THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AS THE MOST POPULAR AND POWERFUL DICTATOR TO DATE. PERSONA NON GRATA: HE'S CLARED A PUBLIC ENEMY BY THE SENATE, PROVOKG A CIVIL WAR. REASONABLE AUTHORY FIGURE: ACTS LIKE ONE WHEN THE SUATN LLS FOR . ROG SPEECH: JULI CAAR HAS TO TAKE HIS LEGN TO ITALY ILLEGALLY. HE A MASTERFUL LE THE SAND SPEECH TO MAKE THEM FOLLOW HIM UNANIMOLY. SELF-FULFILLG PROPHECY. CAAR APPOTS BT ERNOR OF MACEDONIA, AS BT "IS EVERY WALL WH A KNIVE AT CAAR'S THROAT". IT DON'T S WELL WH BT, AND THE RT IS HISTORY.BT: ONLY TYRANTS NEED TO WORRY ABOUT TYRANT KILLERS! SLEAZY POLICIAN: NOTHG TOO BAD, BARELY PAR FOR THE URSE. CAAR LIBERALLY BRIB, SPS THE TTH AND MANIPULAT PEOPLE ON HIS WAY TO THE TOP. HE'S NOT ABOVE THE OCSNAL MURR BY NTRACT OF HIS POLIL OPPONENTS EHER. SHUT UP, HANNIBAL!: HE LIVERS A SUCCSN OF THIS "CAARN," TO PTOLEMY XIII'S URT WHEN THEY TRY TO WEASEL OUT OF THEIR BTS TO ROME: POS: IT'S LAW. POTH: ROMAN LAW. CAAR: IS THERE SOME OTHER FORM OF LAW, YOU WRETCHED WOMAN? POTH: ONE THOAND APOLOGI. FIVENS. PTOLEMY XIII: (RIS UP AND THROWS THE MISSIVE BACK AT CAAR'S FEET) THERE! THAT'S YOUR PAYMENT! THEODOT: SORRY... CAAR: HIS MAJTY FETS HE IS A VASSAL TO ROME. PTOLEMY XIII: (OFFEND) VASSAL? VASSAL? I AM NO VASSAL! I AM KG! I... CAAR: SIT. DOWN. (HE DO) TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME: A TALL, TANNED ROMAN GENERAL WHO'S A PHYSILLY CHARMG GUY. TYRANT TAK THE HELM: PLAYED WH. CAAR BEG DICTATOR FOR LIFE IS A NIGHTMARE FOR HARDLE REPUBLINS AND IS THE REASON FOR HIS ASSASSATN, BUT THE EDICT IS GREETED WH DIFFERENCE BY ORDARY CIZENS AND THE SHOW SELF DON'T PAT CAAR A BAD, SPOTIC LIGHT. THE DISCSN WHETHER HE WAS A TYRANT OR NOT BE A CCIAL POT THE AFTERMATH OF HIS MISE. UTOPIA JTIFI THE MEANS: HOW HIS ACTNS ARE JTIFIED.GAI OCTAVIAN"IT'S NOT THE KILLG. IT IS THE WAVG ABOUT OF SWORDS I FD TED. I DARE SAY I N KILL PEOPLE READILY ENOUGH, AS LONG AS THEY'RE NOT FIGHTG BACK."ONE OF THE MA PROTAGONISTS. A BRILLIANT YET ANTISOCIAL YOUNG MAN WHO THROUGH YEARS OF MANIPULATN, BE ROME'S FIRST EMPEROR.PLAYED BY MAX PIRKIS HIS TEENAGE YEARS AND BY SIMON WOODS AS A YOUNG ADULT. 0% APPROVAL RATG: FDS HIMSELF THIS POSN WHEN MARC ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA CUTS OFF THE GRA SHIPMENTS. PEOPLE BLAME OCTAVIAN BEE THEY N'T BELIEVE THEIR POPULAR WAR HERO ANTONY WOULD TURN AGAST THEM. IT TAK ALL HIS POLIL SAVVY TO TURN THE POPULACE AGAST ANTONY. BREAK THE CUTIE: IT HAPPENS, BUT HE BE MUCH STRONGER (AND MORE THLS) AS A RULT. BROTHER–SISTER INCT: WH OCTAVIA. BTAL HONTY: ONE OF HIS TRAMARKS. THE CHSMASTER: ANOTHER OF HIS TRAMARKS. HE IS BETTER AT THAN HIS FAMO UNCLE, PECIALLY BEE HE NEVER LETS HIS EMPATHY TO GET THE WAY OF HIS PLANS. DEADPAN SNARKER: FREQUENTLY ENGAG THIS, GIVG HIM SOME OF THE BT ONE-LERS ON THE SHOW. EVEN BAD MEN LOVE THEIR MAMAS: SUBVERTED WHEN HE BE AN ADULT THE SEND SEASON, AND REGARDS ATIA WH NTEMPT. BUT AFTER EVERYTHG SHE'S DONE TO HIM, 'S PLETELY UNRSTANDABLE. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: WHILE HE IS PERFECTLY WILLG TO KILL NOCENT PEOPLE, HE DO HATE ADULTERY AS A PLORABLE VICE. MALY BEE OF HIS MOTHER’S BEHAVR. EVEN AFTER WRG THE PROSCRIPTN LISTS TO MURR OFF SR OF POSSIBLE POLIL OPPONENTS AND WEALTHY ROMANS, HE UTTERLY REF TO PERM THE MURR OF WOMEN, STATG AS MUCH WHEN HE BELIEVED HIS MOTHER WANTED HIM TO ADD SERVILLA TO THE LISTS. HE'S ALSO FIERCELY LOYAL TO HIS IENDS, PROBABLY BEE HE DON'T MAKE IENDS EASILY. FX AFFABLY EVIL: HE OFF AS POLE AND WELL-MANNERED, BUT THE CHARA EASILY SLIPS TO SHOW HE IS THLS, VIC, AND POWER-HUNGRY.OCTAVIAN: I WAS ALL SWEETNS AND LIGHT WH HER. CHARM SELF.MAECENAS: Y. THAT IS YOUR MOST DISHEARTENG MANNER. FROM NOBODY TO NIGHTMARE: AT THE BEGNG OF THE SHOW HE IS NOT TECHNILLY A "NOBODY", AS HE IS A MEMBER OF THE POWERFUL ROMAN ARISTOCRACY. STILL, HE IS ONLY THE YOUNGT MEMBER OF ONE OF THE FAI THAT ARE VYG FOR POWER THE LAST DAYS OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC. AT THE END HE HAS OUTWTED, OUTMANVERED OR MURRED ALL HIS OPPONENTS AND HAS BEE THE UNDISPUTED LER OF ROME. HIS TRIUMPHANT SE DURG THE FAL CELEBRATNS OF HIS VICTORI IS CHILLG. THIS LAMPSHAD BY A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HIS SISTER AND HIS RIGHT-HAND MAN.AGRIPPA: HE'S A POWERFUL MAN.OCTAVIA: SO EVERYONE SAYS, I NNOT BELIEVE — MY LTLE BROTHER.AGRIPPA: YOUR LTLE BROTHER HAS AN ARMY TEN THOAND STRONG. HAPPILY ARRANGED MARRIAGE: OCTAVIAN AND LIVIA SEEM TO F THIS TROPE, IF A VERY TWISTED VERSN OF . HISTORIL BETY UPDATE: WHILE ROMAN HISTORIANS SAID HE WAS HANDSOME, THE REAL AUGT WAS SHORT, SWARTHY, AND TH, HAD A FEW ROTTG TEETH, AND HAD A UNIBROW, ACRDG TO SUETONI.'SUETONI: THE TWELVE CAARS: "[AUGT'S] TEETH WERE SMALL, FEW, AND YED; HIS HAIR, LIGHT AND RATHER CURLY; HIS EYEBROWS MET ABOVE THE NOSE; HE HAD EARS OF MORATE SIZE, A NOSE PROJECTG A LTLE AT THE TOP AND THEN BENDG WARD, AND A PLEXN TERMEDIATE BETWEEN DARK AND FAIR. JULI MARATH, AUGT' EEDMAN AND RERR, MAK HIS HEIGHT 5 FEET 7 CH; BUT THIS WAS AN EXAGGERATN, ALTHOUGH, WH BODY AND LIMBS SO BETIFULLY PROPORTNED, ONE DID NOT REALIZE HOW SMALL A MAN HE WAS, UNLS SOMEONE TALL STOOD CLOSE TO HIM." HISTORIL VILLA UPGRA: UNLIKE MASTREAM HISTORIL ACUNTS WHO ACTUALLY ARGUED AGAST PROSCRIPTNS FOR WEEKS BEFORE RELUCTANTLY RELENTG, OCTAVIAN IS THE ONE WHO WR AND PROPOS THE PROSCRIPTN MURR LISTS DURG HIS TENURE THE SEND TRIUMVIRATE WH LEPID AND ANTONY MUCH TO THEIR SHOCK AND OFF AS MUCH MORE LLO AND CEL THAN HE IS PORTRAYED HISTORIL ACUNTS. HE IS ALSO PICTED DOG VAR THGS, SUCH AS HAVG SEX WH HIS SISTER AND PARTICIPATG THE TORTURE-MURR OF EVANR, FOR WHICH NO HISTORIL EVINCE EXISTS. INFO DUMP: A GREAT AL OF ROMAN POLICS ARE REVEALED THROUGH OCTAVIAN. INTERGENERATNAL FRIENDSHIP: WH T PULLO. AN ODD FRIENDSHIP TOO, SCE PULLO IS IMPULSIVE AND VISCERAL, WHILE OCTAVIAN IS EVEN MORE SELF-NTROLLED AND CEREBRAL THAN VOREN. INTERPLAY OF SEX AND VLENCE: WH HIS WIFE LIVIA. JT THE FIRST CIZEN: JTIFIED FOR POLIL REASONS.ATIA: MY NGRATULATNS, YOU'RE GOOD AS KG NOW.OCTAVIAN: NOT KG, MERELY FIRST CIZEN. LEGACY CHARACTER: SE HIMSELF AS THIS AFTER CAAR NAM HIM ADOPTIVE SON AND SOLE HEIR HIS WILL. LONELY AT THE TOP: PLAYED WH BUT SENTIALLY AVERTED. HIS MOTHER AND SISTER PRETTY MUCH HATE HIM BY THE END OF THE SERI. HE VALU HIS RELATNSHIP WH PULLO AND VOREN (PECIALLY THE FORMER) TO A TOUCHG GREE BUT OFF AS MOSTLY ONE-SID. HE DO HAVE A SUPPORTIVE WIFE AND TE COMPANNS MAECENAS AND AGRIPPA BY HIS SI THOUGH. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT: WH LIVIA. MANIPULATIVE BASTARD: ONE OF THE BT OF THE SERI. MISTAKEN FOR GAY: HE HELPS POS TAKE CAAR TO A CLOSET TO ATTEND HIM WHILE CAAR IS HAVG A SEIZURE SO NOBODY ELSE SE . LATER, ATIA SE OCTAVIAN AND CAAR GETTG OUT OF THE CLOSET AND THKS THAT HER SON AND UNCLE ARE HAVG AN AFFAIR... AND SHE IS LIGHTED WH THE IA SCE ULD PROVI HER WH MORE POWER. NO SYMPATHY: NONE TOWARDS ANYONE. NON-ACTN GUY: OCTAVIAN JT ISN'T F TO BE A WARRR, WHICH ADMS HIMSELF. SO HE MANIPULAT THE WARRR-TYP TO KILLG EACH OTHER. THE PATRIARCH: TURNS TO THIS WHEN CAAR DI. THE PLAN: VERY GOOD AT MAKG THE. RED ONI, BLUE ONI: BLUE TO MARK ANTONY'S RED. SECRET-KEEPER: AFTER HE DISVERS THAT CAAR HAS EPILEPSY. SIBLG THEME NAMG: HIS SISTER IS NAMED OCTAVIA. THIS WAS MON ROMAN CTOM, AS SEEN THE VORENI EXAMPLE LISTED BEFORE. SMART PEOPLE PLAY CHS: OCTAVIAN PLAYS A CHS-LIKE GAME HIS FAL SCENE. THE STOIC: RARELY EMOT AND BARELY CRACKS A SE AND TALKS A PLETE MONOTONE. TIME-SHIFTED ACTOR: MAX PIRKIS PLAYED OCTAVIAN AS A CHILD BUT WAS TOO YOUNG TO PORTRAY HIM AS A MAN HIS TWENTI SO SEASON TWO HE IS REPLACED BY SIMON WOODS. TOOK A LEVEL BADASS: WHEN HE FIRST MAK HIS MOVE TO POLICS BY BORROWG AGAST JULI CAAR'S ASSETS (WHICH ANTONY IS NOW G FOR HIMSELF) ANTONY IS SO FUR HE BEATS OCTAVIAN AND THEY PART AS ENEMI SCREAMG ABE AT EACH OTHER. IN SEASON 2, OCTAVIAN DISVERS THAT ANTONY'S WIFE IS CHEATG WH ONE OF HIS GENERALS. HE SILENC ATIA WH A SGLE WORD, THEN WHEN ANTONY GO TO THROTTLE HIM JT LOOKS HIM THE EYE AND DAR HIM TO DO , THREATENG TO EXPOSE ANTONY TO PUBLIC RIDICULE IF HE DON'T LEAVE ROME FOR EGYPT. HE THEN HAS HIS MOTHER AND SISTER PLACED UNR HOE ARRT. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: BY THE TIME HE RETURNS TO ROME AS AN ADULT, HE APPEARS TO HAVE TRANSNED TO AN UNSYMPATHETIC VILLA. TE COMPANNS: WH MAECENAS AND AGRIPPA. UNRTIMATG BADASSERY: THOUGH PERHAPS HERE BETTER LLED 'UNRTIMATG MAGNIFICENT BASTARDRY'. IN PARTICULAR, THE ENTIRE SEND SEASON NSISTS OF PEOPLE DISMISSG OCTAVIAN AS A THREAT BEE OF HIS 'YOUTH AND EXPERIENCE' ONLY TO FD THEMSELV OUTMANVERED, MARGALIZED, AND OFTEN AD FOR UNRSTIMATG HIM. WISE BEYOND THEIR YEARS: EVEN AS A CHILD, HE HAD AN ALMOST IGHTENG GRASP OF POLIL STRATEGI. THOUGH WAS IALLY NSTCTED THAT SPE HIS WISDOM, HIS ELRS NSTANTLY MEANED AND DISRPECTED HIM DUE TO A SIGNATED LACK OF EXPERIENCE, WHICH OCTAVIAN MAK THEM SUFFER FOR LATER. XANATOS SPEED CHS: OCTAVIAN'S BT TACTIC. HE EVEN THIS TO BEE THE FIRST EMPEROR. YOUNG CONQUEROR: THOUGH ONLY BEE HE'S SMART ENOUGH TO REC PETENT GENERALS AND LEAVE THE FIGHTG TO THEM. YOUNG FUTURE FAMO PEOPLE: AT THE START OF THE SERI.MARK ANTONY"I SHALL BE A GOOD POLICIAN. EVEN IF KILLS ME. OR IF KILLS ANYONE ELSE, FOR THAT MATTER."JULI CAAR'S RIGHT HAND MAN AND A TALENTED SOLDIER AND POLICIAN HIS OWN RIGHT, THOUGH HE IS HAMPERED BY HIS MANY FLAWS. IN THE AFTERMATH OF CAAR'S ATH, HE IS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL MEN ROME, PUTTG HIM DIRECT NFLICT WH OCTAVIAN, CAAR'S HEIR. PLAYED BY JAM PUREFOY. AFFABLY EVIL: A HATE-FILLED MAN OF RAPAC AND SELF-AGGRANDIZG STCTS, BUT HE'S QUE GENIAL. HIS METHODS OF TIMIDATN, PARTICULAR, ARE ALWAYS OF THE IRON-FIST--THE-VELVET-GLOVE TYPE. ANYTHG THAT MOV: AS HE PUTS , "I'M NOT RISG OM THIS BED UNTIL I'VE FUCKED SOMEONE." SEE THE NOTE FOR REALLY GETS AROUND. APPEAL TO FORCE: ANTONY TENDS TO GET HIS WAY BY RORTG TO THREATS OF PHYSIL ERCN AND VLENCE, AS SEEN HIS "NEGOTIATN" WH CAAR'S ASSASSS. LATER DENSTCTED, AS HIS RELIANCE ON BTE POWER WDS UP WH HIM OUTMANVERED BY THE WEAKER, BUT MORE POLILLY SAVVY OCTAVIAN. ARRANGED MARRIAGE: MARRI OCTAVIA TO SECURE A PARTNERSHIP WH OCTAVIAN. BADASS BOAST: MARK ANTONY BUGGERS BOYS LIKE OCTAVIAN FOR HIS MORNG SNACK, MEANGFULLY UNRSTAT HIS MASTERFUL SPEECH AS "I GOT A B RRIED AWAY" AND "HAS AN ANGRY MOB THAT WILL ROAST AND EAT YOUR 'MEN OF QUALY' THE ASH OF THE SENATE HOE!" BEARD OF SORROW: MARK ANTONY GROWS A BEARD AFTER OCTAVIAN CSH HIS REBELLN. ACRDG TO HISTORIL ACUNT, THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED. BELLIGERENT SEXUAL TENSN: WH BOTH ATIA AND CLEOPATRA. BERSERK BUTTON: TOO MANY TO UNT. TELLG HIM THAT "A WOMAN'S ROLE ALWAYS SUED YOU BT" IS PROBABLY THE ONE TO AVOID. BETTER TO DIE THAN BE KILLED: FAMOLY MS SUICI RATHER THAN BE KILLED BY OCTAVIAN. BLOOD KNIGHT: LAMPSHAD BY CAAR HIS FIRST SCENE, WHEN BT ASKS WHY HE KEEPS SUCH A VULGAR MAN AROUND. "HE LIK TO FIGHT." BREAD AND CIRC: TRYG TO VOKE A 0% APPROVAL RATG, HE CUTS OFF GRA SHIPMENTS OM EGYPT TO ROME FOR PRAGMATIC REASONS, KNOWG THE MON PEOPLE WILL BLAME OCTAVIAN FOR THE LACK OF FOOD. BRILLIANT, BUT LAZY: WHEN HE PUTS HIS MD TO , HE N BE ALMOST AS CUNNG, CHARISMATIC, AND DOMATG AS THE NEXT MAN, BUT HE UALLY DON'T BOTHER TO TRY, PREFERRG TO DULGE SOME VICE OR ANOTHER. BYRONIC HERO: HE HAS MANY ADMIRABLE QUALI — BRAVERY, ARY SKILL, POPULARY AND LOV TO PARTY. UNFORTUNATELY HE'S ALSO VLENT, FICKLE, SELFISH AND LOV TO PARTY. THE CHARMER: EMPHASIZ HIS EXUBERANT CHARISMA AND WARTIME ROGUISH CHARM TO WOO MANY FEMAL CLUDG THE EQUALLY CHARMG CLEOPATRA, SPIRE LOYALTY HIS MEN, AND MATA A LEVEL OF POPULARY AMONG THE PLEBEIANS TO POT OF HAVG A PERSONALY CULT. CHEWG THE SCENERY: HE HAS HIS MOMENTS. CONSIR THE BELOW EXAMPLE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND CASSI, HAVG SENTIALLY ORRED THE LATTER AND BT OUT OF ROME.CASSI: [SNEERG] YOU MAY WISH AS YOU WILL. WE YET HAVE ALL THE SENATE BEHD AND ALL THE MEN OF QUALY. [ANTONY SLOWLY WALKS OVER TO HIM]ANTONY: AND I HAVE AN ANGRY MOB, THAT WILL ROAST AND EAT YOUR "MEN OF QUALY" IN THE ASHES OF THE SENATE HOUSE! CO UNTERPT: HAPPENS OCSNALLY. COUNTRY MATTERS: WHOLEHEARTEDLY EMBRAC THIS TROPE, TO THE POT THAT "JUNO'S CUNT!" IS HIS TCHPHRASE. CURB-STOMP BATTLE: POLILLY SPEAKG TO BT AND HIS FACTN THE OPENG OF SEASON 2. HE'S ABLE TO TURN THE ROMAN PEOPLE AGAST THEM NEAR EFFORTLSLY AND SPE THEM HAVG NTROL OF THE CY BY THE BEGNG OF THE EPISO BY THE END THEY'RE FLEEG FOR THEIR LIV WH ANTONY AS THE SOLE AND ABSOULTE LER OF ROME. DA CHIEF: TO VOREN. DEAD GUY ON DISPLAY: ALONG WH CLEOPATRA DURG THE SERI FALE. DEADPAN SNARKER: ANTONY N BE VERY WTY AND FLIPPANT, AND IS FOND OF SNI MENTS. DEMOCRACY IS BAD: ANTONY PLAYS THE ELECTNS RD WHEN NEGOTIATG THE AFTERMATH OF CAAR'S ASSASSATN. THE NSPIRATORS ARE HORRIFIED AS THEY WOULD HAVE TO VALIDATE THEIR TAKEN FOR GRANTED POWERS. THEY REACH A PROMISE AND NO MOCRACY IS NEED. DISSONANT SERENY: DURG THE BATTLE OF PHILIPPI, OCTAVIAN IS PEERG TO THE DT KICKED UP BY TWO VIRTUALLY INTIL ROMAN ARMI SLOGGG OUT HAND-TO-HAND.OCTAVIAN: WHAT'S GOG ON?ANTONY: (SUALLY MUNCHG ON SOME BREAD) NOOOO IA. THE DRAGON: TO CAAR. DRAGON THEIR FEET: THE MAJOR REMAG OBSTACLE THAT THE NJURORS AGAST CAAR HAVE TO OVERE. AFTER CAAR'S ASSASSATN, ANTONY IS STILL A NSUL MANDG CAAR'S POWERBASE, ROURC AND FLUENCE. DRAMATILLY MISSG THE POT: ANTONY HAS BEEN FEATED ACTIUM, HE'S SO DNK VOREN N BEAT HIM BAT, AND HIS LUDICRO HOPE FOR SGLE BAT AGAST OCTAVIAN IS BSHED OFF. ALL ANTONY N DO IS STILL PARTY AND WHEN VOREN STARTS HEAVILY DRKG, ANTONY IS JT PROUD. DYG AS YOURSELF: IN ROMAN ATTIRE AND BY A PROPER ROMAN SWORD. ENEMY ME: TEAMS UP WH OCTAVIAN AGAST THE SENATORIAL FORC, SPE THE TWO LOATHG EACH OTHER. ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: STROLLG TO CAAR'S TENT VERED BLOOD, BANTERG WH BT, AND THEN, WHEN GIVEN A MISSN TO ACPLISH ON A STRICT BUDGET, UNABASHEDLY STEALG HALF THE MONEY ANYWAY. ONE OF HIS FIRST OUTDOOR ACTIVI HAS HIM FORNITG WH A FORCIBLY PEASANT GIRL WHILE HIS GUARDS WATCH AND HIS HORTS WA, ON THE WAY TO ROME WHEN TIME IS AT THE SCENE. HERE IS A MAN WHO SETS HIS APPET ABOVE EVERYTHG ELSE. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: AS MUCH OF A PRAVED AND HORRID MAN HE N BE, HE IS BLATANTLY DISGTED WH ATIA FOR HER SELFISH OPPORTUNISM AND HER ATTEMPT TO MANIPULATE HIM TO BETRAYG CAAR AND TAKG OVER ROME FOR HER WISH. HE SRNFULLY LLS HER A "WICKED OLD HARPY" FOR THIS. WHEN CLEOPATRA URG HIM TO MURR ATIA AND OCTAVIA, HE ALSO REF. EVIL VERS EVIL: HIS NFLICT AGAST OCTAVIAN. FACE DEATH WH DIGNY: "IT'S A GOOD PLACE TO DIE AT ANY RATE. COULD'VE BEEN A DCH GL. MEN THAT KNEW ALEXANR ... ONCE STOOD HERE." FETS TO EAT: NOTICEABLY AVERTED HIS SE. IT DON'T MATTER WHAT OTHER CRAZY SH IS GOG DOWN, WHAT STATE HE'S , HOW PREOCCUPIED HE MIGHT BE: IF THERE'S FOOD AND DRK GOG, ANTONY WILL HAVE A BE TO EAT AND A MUG OF WE, AND HE'LL EVEN MENT ON THE QUALY. HE'S NOT A BIG EATER, BUT HE NEVER FETS TO KEEP HIMSELF GOG. FOUR-STAR BADASS: THE ONE THG HE'S GOOD AT IS FIGHTG. UNFORTUNATELY OCTAVIAN FDS A BETTER GENERAL. GOG NATIVE: IN EGYPT, WH THE PERTENT BCHERI ATTACHED TO THE POST. THIS IS EVENTUALLY ED AGAS HIM. GUYLER: WHEN HE'S EGYPT. THIS IS PRENTED AS EXCSIVE EVIL EYHADOW BY THE PROPAGANDISTS. HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER: AS QUE A FEW PEOPLE FD OUT THE HARD WAY. HANDSOME LECH: GOOD-LOOKG, F AND UNQUTNGLY VIRILE. HAS A TYPE: RICH AMB BLOODTHIRSTY MOTHERS. ALTHOUGH OM DIFFERENT WORLDS CLEOPATRA IS PRETTY SIAR TO ATIA. THE HEDONIST: SPEND A GREAT LOT OF HIS TIME DULGG DRKG, HAVG SEX, PARTYG AND SPENDG MONEY WH WAR BEG THE ONLY THG THAT N MAKE HIM STOP. CICERO AND OCTAVIAN NEVER HATE TO E THIS AGAST HIM. HISTORIL VILLA DOWNGRA: IN THE SHOW, WHILE ANTONY GO ALONG WH THE PROSCRIPTNS 'S SHOWN TO BE OCTAVIAN'S IA AND HE'S RATHER SHOCKED WHEN 'S FIRST SUGGTED. MOST HISTORIL ACUNTS SUGGT WAS THE OTHER WAY ROUND. HOT-BLOOD: SEE SHOOT THE MSENGER. HUNK I BANGED YOUR MOMOCTAVIAN: I SEE YOU'RE STILL THE SAME C, ARROGANT LECH YOU ALWAYS WERE. (STRIS OUT)ANTONY: THAT'S RIGHT, JT THE SAME. AND STILL FUCKING YOUR MOTHER!! IMPLIED DEATH THREAT: A RUNNG GAG WH THE CHARACTER. INAQUATE INHEROR: THOUGH OUTSTANDG MANY WAYS, WH A WEEK AFTER CAAR'S ATH 'S CLEAR HE'S UNFORTABLE WEARG THE GREAT MAN'S SHO, EHER ARILY OR POLILLY. IT HAS BEEN AN HONOR: IN A BTERSWEET TOUCH, ANTONY IS SURPRISED WHEN VOREN SAYS GOODBYE TO HIM WH THOSE PARTG WORDS.ANTONY HAS ? LOVE EPIPHANY: OFFSCREEN BUT SCRIBED BY ANTONY TO OCTAVIA, THAT HE KNOWS ATIA IS AWFUL, BUT HE STILL LOV HER. LOVE TRIANGLE: FOR ALL HIS FILY, THERE IS GENUE LOVE BETWEEN HIM AND ATIA, AND LATER CLEOPATRA. UNFORTUNATELY EVEN ANTONY N'T HOLD THE AFFECTNS OF TWO TERMED AND POWERFUL WOMEN AT THE SAME TIME. HE CHOOS CLEOPATRA OVER ATIA (AND HIS LEGAL WIFE OCTAVIA) GIVG OCTAVIAN THE TOOL HE NEEDS TO STROY HIS REPUTATN. MALE FRONTAL NUDY: A SEASON ONE EPISO HAS VOREN BEG SUMMONED TO SPEAK TO HIM WHILE HE (ANTONY) IS BEG CLEANED WH OIL, BUCK NAKED. MANIPULATIVE BASTARD: WHILE HE UALLY PREFERS A BLUNT APPROACH, HE OUTMANVERS EVERYONE DURG THE LOGI OF CAAR AND GETS TO NTROL ROME THE AFTERMATH. MY MASTER, RIGHT OR WRONG: PLAYFUL EXAMPLE WH CAAR. ATIA TRI TO TURN ANTONY TO THE STARSCREAM BUT BACKFIR FOR HER WHEN ANTONY REALIZ OUT LOUD "WHAT A WICKED OLD HARPY YOU (ATIA) REALLY ARE". NO-HOLDS-BARRED BEATDOWN: TWICE; ONE THE ROMAN SENATE AND ANOTHER EGYPT. HE DON'T STOP UNTIL THE OFFENR IS AD. "NOT SO DIFFERENT" REMARK: GETS ONE OM VOREN, OF ALL PEOPLE. IN EGYPT THEY TALK ABOUT THEIR BYRONQUE/DOOMED SHARED NATURE:VOREN: YOU'RE NO WARD, BUT YOU DO HAVE A STRONG DISEASE YOUR SOUL. IT WILL EAT AWAY AT YOU UNTIL YOU DIE [...] I REGNIZE THE SYMPTOMS, I HAVE THE SAME SICKNS. THE PURGE: AFTER HE MAK PEACE WH OCTAVIAN, MARK ANTONY HANDS HIM A LOOOOOONG LIST OF ROMAN CIZENS HE WANTS SLGHTERED. THE NEXT DAY HE UP WH MORE NAM, AS HE'S GOT SO MANY ENEMI TAK A WHILE TO REMEMBER THEM ALL. REALLY GETS AROUND: ATIA MANDS THAT WHEN THEY MARRY HE WILL GET RID OF ALL SLAV (MALE AND FEMALE) HE HAS BEDD. RED ONI, BLUE ONI: RED TO OCTAVIAN'S BLUE. WHICH IS FUNNY NSIRG WHEN THEY RELUCTANTLY CHOOSE TO HAVE AN ALLIANCE (WHAT IS TO BE THE SEND TRIUMVIRATE), OCTAVIAN WEARS THE STANDARD RED-AND-GOLD ROMAN ARMOR WHILE MARK ANTONY WEARS CTOM BLUE-AND-WHE ARMOR. ROG SPEECH: SUBVERTED FOR ANTONY'S SPEECH AFTER CAAR'S FUNERAL (THE ONE THAT BEME KNOWN AS SHAKPEARE'S FAMED, ALTHOUGH ENTIRELY FICTNAL, "FRIENDS, ROMANS, UNTRYMEN" SPEECH). WE SEE THE RULTS OF HIS SPEECH, AND EVEN HAVE SEVERAL CHARACTERS SCRIBE WHAT HAPPENED, BUT NONE OF THE ACTUAL SPEECH IS SHOWN OR HEARD. SHOOT THE MSENGER: OR BEAT HIS BRAS OUT WH THE SCROLL HE WAS READG OM. SLEAZY POLICIAN: MAK NO SECRET OF EHER. SLOUCH OF VILLAY: HE'S VISIBLY BORED AND LAID-BACK WHEN HE'S PRIDG OVER SENATORIAL SSNS. UNDYG LOYALTY: TO CAAR. ANTONY GETS FUR WHEN ATIA SUGGTS HE SWCH TO POMPEII'S SI WHEN THEY THK CAAR IS GOG TO LOSE. AND HE IS EVEN MORE FUR WHEN CAAR IS MURRED BY BT AND THE OTHERS. THE STARSCREAM: WHEN CAAR IS TRAPPED GREECE AND WANTS HIS HELP, ANTONY IS SHOWN LAYG HIS RPONSE. FORTUNATELY ATIA OVERPLAYS HER HAND. TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME THE UN-FAVOURE: HE LED CAAR'S ARMI, HELD ROME WHEN HE WAS AWAY AND BEME CONSUL THE SENATE FOR CAAR. THIS UNTS FOR NOTHG AND HE IS CLEARLY HURT WHEN HE FDS OUT THAT CAAR LEFT EVERYTHG TO OCTAVIAN AND NOTHG TO HIM. THE ISSUE REMAS A SORE POT BETWEEN HIM AND OCTAVIAN. VILLA WH GOOD PUBLICY: CUTS OFF THE GRA SUPPLI TO ROME, BUT THE PEOPLE BLAME OCTAVIAN STEAD. OCTAVIAN HAS TO ENGEER THE CIRCUMSTANC THAT TURN THE PEOPLE AGAST HIM. WACKY FRATBOY HIJKS: IN EGYPT. THIS BEG ROME, THEY ARE TAKEN UP TO ELEVEN. WHAT YOU ARE THE DARK: CAAR LLS FOR HIS HELP WHILE ON THE VERGE OF FEAT GREECE, AT THE SAME TIME HE GETS AN OFFER OF AMNTY OM POMPEY. ANTONY LAYS HIS RPONSE UNTIL ATIA'S NAKED AMBN SNAPS HIM OUT OF . IRONILLY HE LOS HIS ENTIRE LEGN A STORM, BUT THAT'S THE CLOST HE EVER TO BETRAYG CAAR.ATIA OF THE JULII "I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. I N SEE YOU. YOU ARE SWEARG NOW THAT SOME DAY... SOME DAY YOU WILL STROY ME... REMEMBER, FAR BETTER WOMEN THAN YOU HAVE SWORN TO DO THE SAME. GO AND LOOK FOR THEM NOW."CAAR'S NIECE AND MOTHER TO OCTAVIAN AND OCTAVIA, PL LONG-TIME LOVER OF MARK ANTONY. ATIA IS AN EXTREMELY AMB AND EVIL MATRIARCH SUPREME THAT STOPS ALMOST AT NOTHG TO GET WHAT SHE WANTS. SHE'S THE REAL POWER FORCE THE JULIAN HOEHOLD... AT LEAST, UNTIL OCTAVIAN GROWS OLD ENOUGH TO OVERLE HER. PLAYED BY POLLY WALKER. ABIVE PARENTS: ESPECIALLY TO OCTAVIA, AT FIRST. SHE IS ALWAYS ONE TO OCTAVIAN FAVOR OF ANTONY WHICH B HER BACK HARD LATER ON. BADASS BOAST: BIS THE QUOTE, THERE IS ALSO "BY THE FIVE FURI, IF I WAS NOT A GENTLE WOMAN, I WOULD HAVE YOU FLAYED, AND HUNG OM A BRACKET AT THE DOOR!" BELLIGERENT SEXUAL TENSN: WH MARK ANTONY. BIGGER IS BETTER BED: FIRM BELIEVER THIS. BLOOD BATH: IN THE FIRST EPISO ATIA TAK A SHOWER THE BLOOD POURG DOWN OM A SLGHTERED BULL DURG A RUAL TO ENSURE THE SAFE TRAVELG OF HER SON TO GL. BREAK THE HGHTY: BY THE END OF THE SERI HER SON IS THE MOST POWERFUL MAN THE KNOWN WORLD AND WILL REMA THAT TO THE DAY HE DI, PART BEE OF HER NSTANT SCHEMG AND HER UPBRGG OF HIM. YET THE LOVE OF HER LIFE HAS ABANDONED HER AND THEN MTED SUICI, AND BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG LIVIA HAS SURPASSED HER FLUENCE OVER AND RPECT OM OCTAVIAN. PL, OCTAVIAN HIMSELF NOW SEEMS TO TAKE A SADISTIC PLEASURE MAKG HIS MOTHER QUIETLY SUFFER, AND WILL NO DOUBT ENSURE SHE LIV BY THE STANDARDS OF A PROPER ROMAN MATRON (I.E. HIS L) OM NOW ON. BAD LIAR: ATIA IS AN ABYSMAL LIAR. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN OCTAVIA ASKS IF SHE'S KILLED HER HBAND HER NIAL IS CREDIBLY FALSE AND THEATRIL. THE CHSMASTER: SHE LIK TO THK SHE'S THIS, BUT SCE HER PLANS FAIL AT LEAST HALF THE TIME AND SHE SEEMS TO ACT ON WHIM A LOT, SHE'S MORE OF A SMUG SNAKE. CLGY JEALO GIRL: NOT THAT SHE DON'T KNOW THAT ANTONY SCREWS AROUND, BUT GO TO THIS MO WHENEVER SHE THKS HE MIGHT HOOK UP WH A SER RIVAL FOR HER AFFECTNS. CO UNTERPT: WH ANTONY A FEW TIM. COMPOSE CHARACTER: THE HISTORIL NSULTANT JONATHAN STAMP STATED THAT THE CHARACTER'S MA FLUENCE WAS A NOBLEWOMAN NAMED CLODIA—A SISTER (AND ALLEGED LOVER) OF ONE OF CICERO'S ENEMI. THIS CLODIA WHO ALSO HAD A REPUTATN FOR PROMISCUY AND GENERAL ALPHA BCH BEHAVR. AT THE SAME TIME, HER DALLIANCE WH ANTHONY, NTUED AGE OF THUGS TO DO HER BIDDG AND PERSISTENT ATTEMPTS AT BEG A POWER-BROKER ALSO MAKE HER A FACSIE OF ANTHONY'S REAL LIFE THIRD WIFE, FULVIA—WHO HAD ED A NEGATIVE REPUTATN AND HAD A MASSIVE VTED TERT MAKG ANTONY THE SUPREME POWER ROME. MUCH OF THE JTIFITN THIS ATIA GIV TO ANTHONY TO STAY ROME STEAD OF FOLLOWG CAAR TO HIS MPAIGNS WERE THE VERY SAME THGS FULVIA DID ORR TO NSOLIDATE POWER AFTER THE ASSASSATN OF CAAR. DELIBERATE VALU DISSONANCE: THE DON'T MANAGE (NOR AIM) TO MAKE ATIA SYMPATHETIC TO THE VIEWER, BUT THEY DO MAKE HER AN UNEXPECTEDLY FUNNY CHARACTER. EXAMPL CLU NONCHALANTLY DISCSG HOW THE FAY SHOULD M MASS SUICI, BEG OVERJOYED WHEN THKG THAT HER SON AND UNCLE HAVE AN CTUO AFFAIR OR THREATENG TO HAVE HER SON'S BOOKS BURNED IF HE DON'T GO TO A BROTHEL AND LOSE HIS VIRGY. DISPROPORTNATE RETRIBUTN: I DON'T LIKE THAT PLEBEIAN IEND OF MY DGHTER. SHE'S A BAD FLUENCE. LET'S HAVE HER ENTIRE FAY MURRED, HER HOE SACKED AND THE POOR GIRL GANG RAPED. ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: PARADG AROUND NAKED ONT OF HER SON. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: IS UTTERLY APPALLED BY HER SON'S ACTNS THROUGHOUT THE SERI, RANGG OM HAVG CT TO DISGRACG OCTAVIA AND KNOWGLY HUIATG HER ONT OF MARK ANTONY. EVIL IS PETTY: "AND YOUR [HBAND'S] SLAV, WHAT A FS [OVER YOU DIVORCG HIM]! I SWEAR YOU MT BE FEEDG THEM TOO MUCH!" EVIL MATRIARCH: ATIA IS THE EPOME OF THIS TROPE, AT LEAST ACRDG TO MORN VALU. WHEN JUDGED BY ROMAN VALU, IS CLEAR THAT HER ACTN, EVEN THE MOST THLS ON, ARE DONE OUT OF A GENUE NCERN FOR HER CHILDREN'S SURVIVAL THE CUT-THROAT WORLD OF ANCIENT ROMAN POLICS. THOUGH THAT STANDARD BE MOOT LATER THE SERI WHEN HER MOTIV BEE FIXED ON SELF-TERT AT THE ST OF HER CHILDREN. EVIL REDHEAD: SHE HAS RED HAIR. FX AFFABLY EVIL: ATIA N BE CREDIBLY CHARMG AND IENDLY TO MORTAL ENEMI AND PEOPLE SHE IS PLANNG TO TORTURE AND MURR (NAMELY SERVILIA). SHE N MASTERFULLY LIVER L SUCH AS "EAT SH AND DIE" A PLEASANT MANNER, BEE TO ATIA, WOULD BE A WEAKNS TO SHOW ANGER ONT OF A FOE. IN PRIVATE HOWEVER, SHE IS MORE PASSNATE AND GENUE. FEMME FATALE: HAS NO PROBLEM G SEX AND EMOTNAL MANIPULATN TO GET HER WAY. FORTUNE SAVE US FROM THE QUEEN: ONE HAS TO NCLU SHE'D BE THIS, IF MARK ANTONY HAD GONE WH HER PLAN OF MARRYG HER AND PROCLAIMG HIMSELF KG. GEO PERD DRS: WEARS SEVERAL OF THEM. HISTORIL VILLA UPGRA: ATIA IS PORTRAYED AS SCTIVE, MANIPULATIVE AND EVIL. THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO HISTORIL EVINCE FOR THIS; TAC ACTUALLY SCRIB HER AS A P, VOTED MOTHER AND AN IAL ROMAN MATRON. OH, AND HER ENMY WH LIVIA WAS VENTED BY THE SERI, TOO; BY THE TIME OCTAVIAN HAD MET AND MARRIED LIVIA, ATIA HAD BEEN AD FOR FIVE YEARS! IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: A RUNNG GAG WH THE CHARACTER. ANTONY TURNS UP AT HER HOE HAVG BARELY PED ASSASSATN. FIRST SHE'S OVERJOYED HER LOVER IS ALIVE, THEN MOMENTS LATER SHE'S DROPPG SNI MENT ABOUT HOW HE DIDN'T STOP CAAR'S ASSASSATN SPE BEG UNARMED. SHE PLAG ABOUT HAVG TO FOLLOW HIM OOP NORTH WHERE HE N RAISE AN ARMY, BUT WHEN ANTONY SAYS SHE DON'T HAVE TO E SHE ACC HIM OF TENDG TO TAKE ONE OF HIS OTHER GIRLIENDS ALONG. IT'S PERSONAL: HER WAR WH SERVILIA TAK A NASTY EDGE ON FDG THAT SERVILIA HAS SCED HER DGHTER AND TRIED TO TURN OCTAVIA AGAST HER FAY. JERKASS: ALBE OFTEN PLAYED FOR BLACK COMEDY. KARMA HOUDI WARRANTY: SHE HAS HER EX-SON--LAW MURRED, A RICH PLEB GIRL'S FAY KILLED AND THE GIRL HERSELF GANG-RAPED AND RCED TO POVERTY. THERE'S NO OBV PUNISHMENT FOR THIS, THOUGHT SHE SORT OF GETS HER PPANCE WHEN OCTAVIAN ARRANG FOR ANTONY TO MARRY OCTAVIA STEAD OF HER LIKE SHE WANTED. LADY MACBETH: MOSTLY TO MARK ANTONY, BUT A RATHER EFFECTIVE ONE. LONELY AT THE TOP: ATIA ENDS THE SERI AS THE MOTHER OF THE MOST POWERFUL MAN THE ROMAN EMPIRE ONCE OCTAVIAN BE EMPEROR — BUT SHE'S PLETELY HIS POWER, HAS LOST ALL FLUENCE OVER HIM AND HIS WIFE LIVIA CLEARLY NOW HAS HIS EAR. HER CEL PERSONALY HAS PLETELY ISOLATED EVERYONE AROUND HER, CLUDG HER CHILDREN. THE MAN SHE LOVED MOST SPURNED HER FOR SOMEONE ELSE AND HAS MTED SUICI, LEAVG HER PLETELY ALONE A LUXUR BUT UTTERLY MEANGLS EXISTENCE. MANIPULATIVE BCH: HANDS DOWN ONE OF THE BT. MS. FANSERVICE: POLLY WALKER HAS AN AMAZG BODY, WHICH IS SEEN NU SEVERAL TIM. HER FIRST APPEARANCE HAS HER EMERGG OM A BATH, SHOWG OFF EVERYTHG. MYSTER VEIL: IS IMPLIED TO BE THE VEILED WOMAN WHO PUBLICLY HUIAT SERVILIA WH A TRMATIC HAIRCUT. MY BELOVED SMOTHER: TOWARDS BOTH HER CHILDREN BUT FAILS TO BE THIS TO OCTAVIAN ONCE HE'S GROWN UP. MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?: WHEN ATIA REALIZ TOWARDS THE END OF THE SEND SEASON WHAT A LD-HEARTED AND CEL MONSTER OCTAVIAN HAS BEE, SHE SPENDS THE LAST EPISO REFLECTG ON WHAT A GOOD HONT BOY HE WAS WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. IT FALLY SKS TO ATIA THAT THE MANIPULATN AND THGS SHE FORCED HIM TO DO THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE FOR HER OWN SELFISH AIMS IS WHAT ED HER SON TO BEE WHAT HE IS NOW.ATIA: HE WASN'T LIKE THAT AS CHILD, HE WAS A GOOD HONT BOY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED....I'M TO BLAME PROBABLY. OBVLY EVIL: AS NICE AS POLLY WALKER N BE TO THE EY, SHE PLA LOOKS EVIL WHEN DRSG AS A ROMAN PATRICIAN WOMAN. PET THE DOG: SHE DO SHOW GENUE RE FOR HER CHILDREN, EVEN IF SHE IS ALWAYS PUTTG THEM THE MIDDLE OF HER PETTY SCHEM. SHE APPEARS TO BE MORE SYMPATHETIC TOWARDS OCTAVIA THE LATTER HALF OF SEASON 2, DURG HER VILLAO BREAKDOWN. PYRRHIC VICTORY: AT THE END OF THE SHOW SHE HAS FULFILLED HER LIFELONG AMBN TO BRG HER HOEHOLD TO PREEMCENCE THE REPUBLIC AND TO BEE THE FIRST LADY OF ROME. BUT SHE HAS LOST THE ONLY MAN THAT SHE (PERHAPS) HAS REALLY LOVED. AND, SPE HER BADASS BOAST, HER POSN IS FAR OM SECURE. THE LER OF ROME IS THE ONE MAN SHE NNOT EASILY MANIPULATE: A SON WHO SPIS HER AND HAS NO QUALMS ABOUT G HER FOR HIS OWN GOALS. AND HER DGHTER--LAW CLEARLY VI FOR HER POSN AND IS AS THLS AND UNMERCIFUL AS HER HBAND. THE SAD LOOK ON HER FACE WHEN THE EFFIGI OF MARK ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA PASS DURG OCTAVIAN’S TRIUMPHAL PROCSN TELLS ALL. SHUT UP, HANNIBAL!: A RARE VILLAO EXAMPLE, BUT SHE DO LIVER ONE TO LIVIA. THOUGH BY THIS TIME, ATIA'S STAT AS A VILLA HAS YED. THE RIVAL: TO SERVILIA, LIVIA, CALPURNIA (ARGUABLE UNKNOWN RIVAL THIS SE) AND EVEN CLEOPATRA HERSELF. IN SHORT, ATIA DON'T LIKE ANY OTHER WOMAN THAT DAR TO SEEM PABLE OF GAG PROMENCE THE JULIAN HOEHOLD. SMUG SNAKE: LEAVG TO THE EVABLE BREAK THE HGHTY. NOTABLLY EVERY CHARACTER WH POWER THROUGHOUT THE SERI JT TREATS HER AS AN IRRATN. SPARED BY THE ADAPTATN: THE REAL-LIFE ATIA DIED ONLY A YEAR AFTER HER UNCLE, JULI CAAR. STEALTH INSULT: A RUNNG GAG WH THE CHARACTER, AND LAMPSHAD BY HER DGHTER. ATIA N'T SEEM TO PRAISE SOMEONE WHOUT PUTTG THEM DOWN THE SAME BREATH.THANK YOU, DGHTER. I REALLY APPRECIATE THE LTLE CHATS WE HAVE BETWEEN YOUR DG BG. THE VAMP: SC ANYONE SHE FANCI. VIRG-SHAMG: ATIA FIRMLY BELIEV THIS. WHICH IS WHY SHE ARRANG FOR OCTAVIAN TO VIS A BROTHEL, SO THAT HE N BEE A REAL MAN. WOMAN SRNED: SHE TAK OFFENSE ON CLEOPATRA FOR STEALG ANTONY AND PS OCTAVIAN AGAST THEM (EVEN MORE). WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS A HAMMER…: TIMON AND HIS MEN ARE THIS FOR ATIA. THE ONLY REASON SH A THREAT IS BEE SHE HAS HIM TO RELY ON, AS SH A TERRIBLE SCHEMER AND MANIPULATOR. WOULD HURT A CHILD SENDS HER OWN CHILD ON A DANGERO MISSN TO GL, THEN THREATENS A MN THAT IF HE DON'T E BACK SAFELY SHE'LL E THE EY OF HIS CHILDREN FOR BEADS. SHE ATTACKS OCTAVIAN AFTER DISVERG HE'S HAD CT WH HIS SISTER. YOU JT TOLD ME: BY ATIA TO EXPOSE OCTAVIA'S RELATNSHIP TO AGRIPPA.OCTAVIA OF THE JULII"PLEASE, CASTOR, LET MOTHER [KILL ME]! I WON'T NY HER ONE LAST PLEASURE. IT WOULD BE UNDGHTERLY."OCTAVIAN'S OLR SISTER AND WOOBIE SUPREME OF THE SERI. BEG THE ONLY WOMAN OF MARRYG AGE THE FAY MAK HER THE PERFECT UNWTG PAWN OF ATIA AND LATER OCTAVIAN TO GA POLIL FLUENCE. PLAYED BY KERRY CONDON. ACCINTAL PORNOMANCER: POOR OCTAVIA. FIRST THERE'S HER ARRANGED MARRIAGE TO GLABI, WHICH SHE IALLY DIDN'T WANT, BUT SHE ENDS UP LIKG HIM. THEN SHE HAS TO GET DIVORCED OM GLABI SO THAT SHE N BE OFFERED TO POMPEY, WHO ( THE ROMAN MANNER) HAS PRE-MARAL ANAL SEX WH HER BUT ENDS UP MARRYG SOMEONE ELSE. THEN SHE FALLS FOR SERVILIA AND HAS SEX WH HER, WHO THEN ERC HER TO HAVE SEX WH HER BROTHER FOR RMATN. IN SEASON TWO, MUCH TO HER OWN SURPRISE AFTER BEG PASSED AROUND SO MUCH, SHE FALLS FOR AGRIPPA BUT IS FORCED TO MARRY MARK ANTONY AND BEAR HIS CHILD. IT'S HTED THE FALE THAT SHE AND AGRIPPA MIGHT GET BACK TOGETHER. ARRANGED MARRIAGE: SET UP WH POMPEY AND ACTUALLY GONE THROUGH WH ANTONY. BIG SISTER INSTCT: MOST PROMENT WHEN SHE SH TO FORT OCTAVIAN AFTER HE'S CHOKED BY ANTONY, HOLDG HIM WHILE SHE SCREAMS AT THE OLR MAN AND LLS HIM AN ANIMAL FOR HIS TREATMENT OF HER BROTHER. SADLY, DON'T LAST, AND BY THE END OF THE SERI SHE APPEARS TO SPISE HIM FOR HIS SETTG UP OF HER AND ATIA TO BE HUIATED BY ANTONY. BUTT-MONKEY: OF THE JULII. SHE IS MANIPULATED BY SERVILIA TO HAVG SEX WH HER BROTHER, HER FIRST HBAND IS KILLED, ADDICTN, SELF-HARM (DURG HER BSOD. BRATTY TEENAGE DGHTER: ATIA HILARLY SE HER AS THIS.OCTAVIA: MOTHER, I WOULD RATHER WERE NOT YOU WHO KILLED ME. IF YOU HAVE NO OBJECTNS. ATIA: WHY EVER NOT? YOU N'T STILL BE ANGRY WH ME! BREAK THE CUTIE: GO THROUGH ONE OF THE SERI' HARSHT, RULTG HER BEG AN APATHETIC DEADPAN SNARKER, NO LONGER RG ABOUT POLICS OR HER FAY OR EVEN FIGURG OUT WHO FATHERED HER DGHTER. LAMPSHAD BY ATIA:ATIA: HAVE I CHANGED AT ALL, DO YOU THK, SCE HE LAST SAW ME? OCTAVIA: NO. YOU'RE JT EXACTLY AS YOU WERE. HE'LL FALL TO YOUR ARMS A LIRIUM OF LOVE. ATIA: DO YOU MEAN THAT? OCTAVIA: NO. ATIA: YOU'VE BEE VERY MEAN, YOU KNOW. MEAN AND BTER. BROTHER–SISTER INCT: SERVILIA ENURAG HER TO DO THIS ORR TO GET OCTAVIAN TO REVEAL SECRETS ABOUT CAAR. SHE DO SLEEP WH HIM BUT HE SE RIGHT THROUGH THE SE. DEADPAN SNARKER: BE ONE BY THE END OF THE SERI. IT NS THE FAY. FAY THEME NAMG: AS WAS CTOM AT THE TIME. SHE AND HER BROTHER OCTAVIAN HAD A FATHER NAMED OCTAVIAN. IN SEASON TWO HER DGHTER'S NAME IS ANTONIA (THOUGH 'S UNCLEAR IF ANTONY IS THE FATHER, OR IF AGRIPPA IS). FUNCTNAL ADDICT: SMOK DGS (POSSIBLY HASHISH OR OPIUM) DURG ONE LOW POT. HAPPILY MARRIED: TO GLABI. ATIA OF URSE HAS THEM DIVORCED AND ULTIMATELY GLABI KILLED. HEROIC BSOD: MORE THAN ONCE. MAMA'S BABY, PAPA'S MAYBE: HER BABY EHER BELONGS TO MARK ANTONY OR AGRIPPA. MORALY PET: TO SERVILIA, WHO REF TO LET HER HIRED ASSASS KILL OCTAVIA EVEN AFTER THEIR RELATNSHIP HAS FELT APART. FOR OCTAVIAN SEASON ONE, BUT SUBVERTED BEE SEASON 2 SHE ENDS UP JT A PAWN HIS SCHEM. LOOKG FOR LOVE ALL THE WRONG PLAC: HER BROTHER, HER MOTHER'S RIVAL, AND HER BROTHER'S GENERAL WHO IS TOO LOYAL TO HIM TO LIE ABOUT THE AFFAIR. STAR-CROSSED LOVERS: WH AGRIPPA TAKG THE VEIL: ATTEMPTS TO DO THIS PARTWAY THROUGH HER BREAK THE CUTIE AND FAILS WHEN OCTAVIAN BRIB THE PRITS TO SEND HER BACK TO HER FAY. TOKEN GOOD TEAM MATE: THOUGH SHE BE DARKER AND MORE CYNIL AS THE SHOW GO ON. UNWTG INSTIGATOR OF DOOM: OCTAVIA TURNS OUT TO BE DIRECTLY RPONSIBLE FOR THE ATHS OF JULI CAAR AND NBE. SCED BY SERVILIA, OCTAVIA ASKS OCTAVIAN TO TELL HER SOME SECRET THAT SHE N PASS TO SERVILIA AND THE POMPEIIAN MP (THEY, OF URSE, EXPECTG TO BE ABOUT CAAR) BUT ALL OCTAVIAN TELLS HER IS VOREN' WIFE'S AFFAIR. SERVILIA IALLY DISMISS THIS PIECE OF RMATN BUT BE EFUL WHEN VOREN BE CAAR'S GLORIFIED BODYGUARD, AND IS ED TO DRIVE HIM AWAY OM CAAR SO BT AND . N KILL HIM, UNLEASHG THE WHOLE SEND ROUND OF WAR AND POLIL ASSASSATNS. MEANWHILE, VOREN NONTS NBE AND SHE KILLS HERSELF OUT OF HONOR. IT ONLY GETS WORSE. WH CAAR AD, VOREN IS ALSO VULNERABLE AND ERAST FULMEN GO TO HIS HOE TO KILL HIM. HOWEVER, SCE VOREN IS OUT TO BURY HIS WIFE, HE ONLY FDS HIS CHILDREN AND SISTER--LAW THERE, AND HE ENSLAV THEM TO GET BACK AT VOREN.LIVIA DSILLA"OH, I DON'T MD REALLY, BUT IS REALLY I WHO SHOULD GO FIRST. IF YOU NSULT THE PRITS, I'LL THK YOU'LL FD THE WIFE TAK PRECENCE."OCTAVIAN'S WIFE, A SMART, NO-NONSENSE YOUNG PATRICIAN GIRL WHO HAS NO FEAR OF CHALLENGG ATIA. PLAYED BY ALICE HENLEY. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: APPEARS PUBLIC AS THE PERFECT WIFE OF A NSUL. ATIA QUICKLY AND ACCURATELY PEGS HER AS A POWER-HUNGRY RIVAL NO DIFFERENT THAN HERSELF. BRAY BTE: IN PUBLIC EVENTS AND EVEN PRIVATE DNERS SHE SEEMS SOMEWHAT DZY. IN PRIVATE SHE IS AS CLEVER AS OCTAVIAN, QUICKLY DUCG HIS REAL GOALS AND IS EVEN AMED BY HIS EXPLOATN OF HIS MOTHER. EVIL COUNTERPART: TO OCTAVIA. TO HER FAY (AND PECIALLY HER MOTHER), OCTAVIA IS LTLE MORE THAN A TOOL THAT N BE ED TO FE POLIL ALLIANC AND GA MORE POWER. LIVIA ALSO MARRI FOR POWER, LIKE OCTAVIA, BUT 'S HER WHO CIS TO DO SO, AND HER MOTHER DO NOT NTROL HER THE LEAST. ONCE MARRIED, OCTAVIA IS SUBMISSIVE AND LETS HER HBAND CI WHAT TO DO WH HER, WHILE LIVIA SOON RES OCTAVIAN . INTERPLAY OF SEX AND VLENCE: OH Y. OCTAVIAN WARNS HER BEFORE THEIR MARRIAGE THAT HE WILL BEAT HER FOR SEXUAL PLEASURE. TURNS OUT HE GETS EVEN MORE TURNED ON BY HER BEATG HIM. PERFECTLY ARRANGED MARRIAGE: NEHER SHE NOR OCTAVIAN ARE VERY NICE, BUT THEY SEEM LIKE A VERY GOOD MATCH. IN REAL LIFE, LIVIA AND OCTAVIAN WERE SEEN AS THE MOL ROMAN UPLE. "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH: SHE RECEIV A BRIEF BUT POWERFUL ONE OM ATIA THE FAL SCENE, AND YOU TELL H THE MARK. SEE THE AWOME PAGE. THE RIVAL: TAK SERVILIA'S PLACE AS ATIA'S. IT'S A PY THE SERI WAS NCELLED EARLY.CALPURNIA"SHE IS A SPECI OF STATUE."POS, ABOUT CALPURNIACAAR'S WIFE. PLAYED BY HAYDN GWYNNE. ARRANGED MARRIAGE: PERFECTLY NORMAL FOR A ROMAN WOMAN, PARTICULARLY A NOBLEWOMAN, BUT NOT GREAT WHEN YOUR HBAND HAS A LIBIDO YOU ULD HOLD UP A HOE WH. CHUCK CUNNGHAM SYNDROME. CALPURNIA IS SEEN LAST THE SEASON 2 PREMIERE. DREAMG OF THGS TO COME: DREAMS OF A FLOCK OF CROWS THAT FORM THE SHAPE OF A SKULL. CAAR DISMISS THE OMEN, SAYG HE'S BEEN HAVG DREAMS LIKE THAT FOR YEARS. HONOR BEFORE REASON: WILL NOT LEAVE ROME UNTIL CAAR'S WILL HAS BEEN READ EVEN AS PEOPLE ULD VERY WELL BE LOOKG TO KILL HER. IRONILLY THE WILL TURNS OUT TO BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVERYONE THKS. I CHOOSE TO STAY: ANTONY IS ENTIRELY WILLG TO FORCE HER TO E WH THEM, BEE WILL LOOK BAD POLILLY IF HE FLE ROME BUT LEAV CAAR'S WIFE BEHD. IRONILLY ANTONY ENDS UP STAYG ANYWAY WHEN OCTAVIAN EXPLAS WHY THE SMARTER MOVE WOULD BE TO STAY PUT AND ATIA BACKS HIM UP. SILK HIDG STEEL: IS THE PERFECT STAY THE KCHEN WIFE OF TRADNAL ROMAN VALU. HOWEVER WHEN SHE PUTS HER FOOT DOWN, EVEN CAAR AND ANTONY HAVE TO GO ALONG. MY SIGNIFINCE SENSE IS TGLG: SHE SENS DANGER AS THE IS DREW NEAR. HER HBAND BSH OFF HER WARNG. SPEFUL SP: CALPURNIA SPS AT SERVILIA'S FACE, TWICE, WHEN THEY FALLY MEET. UNWTG INSTIGATOR OF DOOM: WHEN HIS AFFAIR BE A PUBLIC SNDAL SHE MANDS HER HBAND DIVORCE HER OR GIVE UP HIS MISTRS. BEE WOULD BE POLILLY DISASTRO TO GET A DIVORCE AT THAT STAGE, CAAR VLENTLY DRIV AWAY SERVILIA, G HER TO TURN AGAST HIM HATE.POS"THE ROMAN PEOPLE ARE NOT CRYG OUT FOR CLEAN ELECTNS. THEY ARE CRYG OUT FOR JOBS. THEY ARE CRYG OUT FOR CLEAN WATER, FOR FOOD, FOR STABILY AND PEACE."AN OLD, WISE AND TED GREEK SLAVE OWNED BY CAAR, WHO HE TUTORED WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. NOWADAYS HE ACTS AS HIS PERSONAL MANSERVANT, UNSELOR AND NFINT. HE IS EE TO SPEAK HIS MD, WHICH CLUS A LOT OF SNARK. PLAYED BY NICHOLAS WOOSON. ALMIGHTY JANOR: TO CAAR. THE CONSIGLIERE: CONTU TO PLAY THIS ROLE TO ANTONY EVEN AFTER CAAR DI AND E HIM HIS WILL. HE EVEN TRI TO TE VOREN THE POLIL GAME. CORPT BURECRAT: AS A EEMAN HE QUICKLY ENRICH HIMSELF SELLG POLIL FAVORS, THOUGH HE'S FORCED TO LEAVE HIS WEALTH BEHD WHEN FLEEG EGYPT. HOWEVER HE PUTS HIMSELF A POSN WHERE OCTAVIAN OW HIM A HUGE POLIL FAVOR, SO THERE'S NO DOUBT HE'LL SOON GET BACK ON HIS FEET. THE DOG B BACK: UNLIKE CAAR, ANTONY IS PARTICULARLY CEL TO POS WHEN POS ACHIEV HIS EEDOM, EVEN THOUGH HE RELI ON POS'S ADMISTRATIVE KNOWLEDGE TO N HIS PORTN OF THE EMPIRE. TIRG OF ANTONY'S MOODS. POS STEALS HIS WILL AND SHAR WH OCTAVIAN. HAPPS SLAVERY: IN FAIRNS HE IS A VERY WELL RED FOR SLAVE. AFTER CAAR IS ASSASSATED HE SHEDS MANLY TEARS OVER HIS RPSE, AND RISKS HIS LIFE TAKG THE BODY TO HIS WIDOW'S HOE. HYPERPETENT SIKICK: ACTS AS ROME'S FACTO EXECUTIVE POWER UNR ANTONY, WHO IS BORED BY MOST OF THE THGS RELATED TO STATEMANSHIP. NON-ACTN GUY: AS HE PUTS , 'S NOT THAT HE'S A WARD — IF HE DIED, WHO WOULD LOOK AFTER HIS WIFE? ODD FRIENDSHIP: ALTHOUGH THEY ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT PEOPLE, HE VELOPS A RPECT FOR THE HONT-TO-A-FLT VOREN AND URG HIM TO FLEE EGYPT AS WELL. VOREN REF, BUT LETS POS AND HIS WIFE GET AWAY WHEN HE ULD EASILY HAVE STOPPED THEM, AND EVEN LI TO HIS MANR MARC ANTONY ABOUT THEIR WHEREABOUTS. PERFECTLY ARRANGED MARRIAGE: SOMEWHAT UNEXPECTEDLY WH JOSTA. TRIPL AS UGLY GUY, HOT WIFE AND MAY–DECEMBER ROMANCE. SCREW THIS, I'M OUT OF HERE!: WHEN ATIA AND OCTAVIA BRIEFLY SHOW UP EGYPT, HE AND JOSTA TAKE THE CHANCE TO QUIETLY SLIP AWAY TO THEIR BOAT AND SAFELY PE BACK HOME TO ROME. SECRET-KEEPER: TO CAAR. MORE IMPORTANTLY PLOTWISE, TO MARC ANTONY. WHEN FLEEG EGYPT, POS BRGS THE LAST WILL AND TTAMENT OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, A POLILLY EXPLOSIVE DOCUMENT THAT TURNS ROME AGAST THEM. SERVILE SNARKER: SO VERY MUCH. UNDYG LOYALTY: JT ONE WORD - "DOME!". BUT ONLY TO CAAR, AS TURNS OUT. ONCE A EEMAN, POS EVENTUALLY BETRAYS ANTONY WHEN HE REALIS HE N'T W.MARC AGRIPPA"I WOULD GO WH YOU TO HAS... TO BRA EVEN, IF I THOUGHT WE HAD THE RIGHT."A YOUNG, HUMBLE ROMAN GENERAL OF RAL ORIGS AND OLD IEND TO OCTAVIAN. HE LOV OCTAVIA, BUT HIS LOYALTY TO HER BROTHER WILL NEVER LET HIM PURSUE HER. PLAYED BY ALLEN LEECH. ANGUISHED DECLARATN OF LOVEAGRIPPA: I KNOW YOU ARE KD, AND FULL-HEARTED, AND BETIFUL, AND I WOULD TEAR DOWN THE SKY FOR YOU IF YOU ASKED ME TO. BEWARE THE NICE ON: AGRIPPA IS ONE OF THE KST, MOST CENT CHARACTERS THE SHOW. HOWEVER, HE'S ALSO THE ARY POWERHOE THAT PAV THE WAY FOR OCTAVIAN'S VICTORY. BLOOD KNIGHT: DOWNPLAYED, BUT HE CLEARLY ENJOYS BAT. WHEN MARK ANTONY LEADS A VALRY CHARGE AT THE BATTLE OF PHILIPPI, AGRIPPA WATCH THE HORSEMEN RI OFF LONGGLY UNTIL OCTAVIAN NOTIC AND GIV HIM LEAVE TO JO THE ATTACK, MUCH TO AGRIPPA'S GLEE. FOIL: AGRIPPA AND BT ARE FIVEN FOR A PAST BETRAYAL BUT AGRIPPA REF TO BETRAY OCTAVIAN A SEND TIME, UNLIKE BT DID WH CAAR. FOUR-STAR BADASS: OCTAVIAN'S GREATT GENERAL. EVERY VICTORY OCTAVIAN HAD THE BATTLEFIELD IS THANKS TO AGRIPPA'S PROWS AND CREDIBLE TALENT AS A BATTLE MANR. WHILE NOT TABLISHED TAIL THE SERI, HISTORILLY WAS AGRIPPA WHO ABSOLUTELY CSHED ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA'S FORC BATTLE OF ACTIUM AND STROYED SAID ALLIANCE. HYPERPETENT SIKICK: IN THE ONLY AREA THAT OCTAVIAN FALLS SHORT - ARY SKILL. INNOCENT BLUE EY: PORTRAYED AS MORE NOCENT AND HONT PARISON TO HIS MORE RPT AND CYNIL IENDS. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT: FALLS LOVE WH OCTAVIA ON SEEG HER PLAYG A HARP OF FEMY. NICE GUY: ONE OF THE NICT CHARACTERS WH THE SERI. HE TTS UNNECSARY VLENCE SUCH AS ANTONY'S PURGE OF SENATORIAL ENEMI. HE ALSO STANTLY ADMS TO HAVG AN AFFAIR WH OCTAVIAN'S SISTER ONCE OCTAVIAN LLS HIM OUT ON , AND THEN PROMPTLY APOLOGIZ FOR DOG SO. NOUVE RICHE: WASN'T BORN TO MONEY WHICH IS A SOURCE OF SECURY FOR HIM. NUMBER TWO: TO OCTAVIAN. STAR-CROSSED LOVERS: WH OCTAVIA TE COMPANNS: WH OCTAVIAN AND MAECENAS. UNDYG LOYALTY: TO OCTAVIAN.GAI MAECENAS"A VICTORY IS NO VICTORY UNLS HAS A SONG."ANOTHER IEND OF OCTAVIAN AND THIRD THE TR OF YOUNG MEN THAT GIVE BIRTH TO THE ROMAN EMPIRE. IN NTRAST TO AGRIPPA, MAECENAS IS A POLICIAN OM A WEALTHY URBAN FAY WHO HAS A TALENT FOR RHETORIC AND HIS OWN PERSONAL GOALS BEYOND THOSE OF OCTAVIAN. PLAYED BY ALEX WYNDHAM. ANYTHG THAT MOV: HE WAS BISEXUAL REAL LIFE AND IS IMPLIED TO BE FTG THIS TROPE VERY WELL THE SERI, THOUGH WE NEVER ACTUALLY SEE HIM BED WH ANYONE. NON-ACTN GUY: WHILE AGRIPPA LEADS OCTAVIAN'S ARMI THE FIELD, MAECENAS FIGHTS OCTAVIAN'S BATTL ON A DIFFERENT SCENE. BASILLY HE NS THE WHOLE PR MACHE. SLEAZY POLICIAN: TAK FULL PART OCTAVIAN'S RPT SCHEM. THE SMART GUY: CAN HOLD HIS OWN AGAST OCTAVIAN. TOKEN EVIL TEAMMATE: IS THE LEAST MORALLY SCPULO OF THE THREE. HE ALSO ANIZ A ROBBERY WHICH GO WRONG WHEN MIMEO KEEPS THE GOLD. TE COMPANNS: WH AGRIPPA AND OCTAVIAN.CASTORHEAD SLAVE OF THE JULII HOEHOLD. PLAYED BY MANEDI ALIQUO. A'T TOO PROUD TO BEG: GROVELS FOR MERCY AFTER HE ADVERTENTLY LETS A WOULD-BE ASSASS TO THE HOE, AND ONLY P GELDG BEE ATIA BELIEV THAT NUCHS ARE NOT FASHNABLE AT THE MOMENT. PERCSIVE THERAPY: ATIA IS SHOWN WHIPPG HIM, NOT APPARENTLY BEE HE'S DONE ANYTHG WRONG, BUT JT TO LET OFF SOME STEAM. UNDYG LOYALTY: THOUGH HE'S NEVER ACTUALLY PUT TO THE TT, SO HE ULD HAVE JT BEEN DIPLOMATIC.ATIA: AND THEN YOU MT KILL YOURSELF. YOUR SURVIVAL WOULD BE MOST UNSAVORY.CASTOR: I WOULD NOT DREAM OF LIVG, DOMA.MELAAN OLD FEMALE SLAVE TO THE JULII, WORKG MOSTLY AS A HANDMAIN TO ATIA. PLAYED BY LYDIA BNDI. EVIL OLD FOLKS: IN AN UNQUTNG SERVANT OF HER MISTRS' SCHEM. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: AS JAD AND ACCTOMED TO HER MISTRS' CETLY SH SHOWN TO BE EXTREMELY DISTURBED AND HORRIFIED BY SERVILIAS SCREAMS AS SH TORTURED BY ATIAS MEN. HAPPS SLAVERY: VERY VOTED TO ATIA. NJA MAID: WHEN ANTONY STRIK HER MISTRS, SHE QUICKLY PULLS A KNIFE ON HIM. ANTONY IS NAKED AND UNARMED, SO DON'T DISPUTE THE POT. UNDYG LOYALTY: WOULD KILL (AND DIE) FOR HER MISTRS.GLABITHE FIRST HBAND OF OCTAVIA. PLAYED BY ROBERTO PURVIS. BUY THEM OFF: TRI TO DO THIS TO TIMON, WHO UNFORTUNATELY IS MORE LOYAL TO ATIA. HAPPILY MARRIED: TO OCTAVIA, UNTIL ATIA FORC A DIVORCE ON THEM SO HER DGHTER EE TO MARRY POMPEII. IT'S ALL FOR NOTHG AS POMPEY WAS NEVER TERTED GOG THROUGH WH , MARRYG THE DGHTER OF A SENATOR OPPOSED TO CAAR STEAD. MURR THE HYPOTENE: EVEN AFTER POMPEY MARRI, ATIA REF TO ALLOW OCTAVIA TO GO BACK TO GLABI, SO HER DGHTER WILL BE EE TO MARRY SOMEONE ELSE. WHEN SHE DISVERS THAT HER DGHTER IS SECRETLY VISG GLABI, SHE SENDS TIMON TO MURR HIM. MAKE IT LOOK LIKE AN ACCINT: OR RATHER A RANDOM ACT OF VLENCE DURG A TIME OF CIVIL WAR. PET THE DOG: ASKS FOR HIS SLAV TO BE SPARED, BUT HIS KILLER HAS ORRS TO LEAVE NO WNS. JULIADGHTER OF CAAR AND THE PREV WIFE OF POMPEY. DEATH BY CHILDBIRTH MORALY CHA: JULIA WAS THE ONLY WHO ULD KEEP THE PEACE BETWEEN FATHER AND HER HBAND. EVERYTHG FALLS APART AFTER SHE DI. THIS IS TTH TELEVISN. PERFECTLY ARRANGED MARRIAGE: THOUGH SHE AND POMPEY MARRIED AS AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN CAAR AND POMPEY, THEY EVENTUALLY FELL LOVE OR AT LEAST GREW TO RE FOR EACH OTHER. PLOT-TRIGGERG DEATH: JULIA'S ATH ACCELERAT THE Y OF CAAR AND POMPEII'S IENDSHIP.    JUNII HOEHOLD MARC JUNI BT"ONLY TYRANTS NEED WORRY ABOUT TYRANT KILLERS."A QUIET AND AWKWARD YOUNG PATRICIAN TORN BETWEEN DOG WHAT HE BELIEV 'S RIGHT AND WHAT OTHERS EXPECT OF HIM - PARTICULARLY HIS MOTHER SERVILIA AND HIS PARENTAL SUBSTUTE, JULI CAAR. PLAYED BY TOBIAS MENZI. THE ALHOLIC: HS THE JAR THE SEND SEASON. APOLOGETIC ATTACKER: LOOKS TO BE QUE REMORSEFUL BEFORE LIVERG THE KILLG BLOW TO CAAR CROUCHG MORON, HIDN BADASS: STARTS OFF IGNORANT AND UNTERTED POLICS BUT WHEN PHED TOO FAR HE PROV HIMSELF TO BE HANDY WH A KNIFE AND PABLE OF LEADG AN ARMY TO BATTLE. CULTURE CLASH: WHILE TRYG TO REC MEN FOR A MPAIGN AGAST OCTAVIAN HE THE FACT THAT HE WAS THE MAN THAT GAVE THE LAST STAB THAT KILLED CAAR AS A BADASS BOAST ORR TO IMPRS SOME ANATOLIAN PRC AND MAKE THEM AGREE TO PROVI HIS ARMY. THEY ARE DISGTED STEAD, FDG THAT KILLG AN ALREADY JURED MAN THAT N'T FEND HIMSELF IS WARDLY AND SHAMEFUL. DEADPAN SNARKER: ONE OF HIS TRAMARKS. DEFIANT TO THE END: BT FAC OFF BY HIMSELF AGAST AN ADVANCG ARMY. HE IS OVERWHELMED BUT NOWHERE DO HE SHOW FEAR. DID NOT THK THIS THROUGH: BT AND THE OTHER NSPIRATORS WERE APPOTED BY CAAR, BUT PRENTG HIM AS A TYRANT AND HIS MURR AS A TYRANNICI WOULD MAKE ALL HIS EDICTS AND APPOTMENTS NULL AND VOID, AND THE NSPIRATORS WOULD LOSE ALL THEIR POWER. BT IS TH UNABLE TO JTIFY CAAR'S ATH TO THE PEOPLE SO THEY TURN AGAST HIM. DU, WHERE'S MY RPECT?: AFTER TELLG SOME ANATOLIAN NOBL OF HIM ALG THE ATH BLOW AGAST CAAR, EXPECTG TO BE HAILED AS A HERO AGAST TYRANNY, HE IS PROMPTLY LGHED AT BY THE NOBL AND LABELED A WARD FOR KILLG A MAN WHO WAS ALREADY FATALLY WOUND. ET TU, BTE?: HE WAS THE PERPETRATOR OF THIS TROPE TOWARDS CAAR, THOUGH THE LE IS NEVER ED (EXCEPT BY HIM TOWARDS HIS OWN MOTHER). FACE DEATH WH DIGNY: ALSO A DYG MOMENT OF AWOME AND AN IRONIC ECHO TO HOW CAAR DIED. FAY BS: RELUCTANTLY ENTERS POLICS, WHICH HAS BEEN THE PLAYFIELD OF THE JUNII FOR THE LAST 500 YEARS. A FATHER TO HIS MEN: INVOK THIS WHILE ON THE MARCH TO PHILIPPI; WHILE CASSI SPENDS HIS TIME READG SUPPLY REPORTS AND PLAG ABOUT THE SUATN, BT PREFERS TO WHILE AWAY THE MARCH TALKG AND GETTG IENDLY WH THE SOLDIERS.BT: [REGARDG SOLDIERS] THEY'RE NOT SUCH A BAD LOT, ONCE YOU GET TO KNOW THEM. FOIL: BT LOV CAAR BUT HAT HIS POLICS. GENERATN XEROX: HIS ANCTOR TABLISHED THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AFTER KILLG ROME'S TYRANNIL KG. FOR THIS REASON HIS MOTHER AND THE OTHER NSPIRATORS ARE PRSURG HIM TO TURN AGAST CAAR, ORR TO PRENT HIS ATH AS THE OVERTHROW OF A TYRANT. BT RISTS FOR A WHILE BUT CAAR TOO IS NERVO ABOUT HIS PAST AND TRI TO HAVE HIM SENT ELSEWHERE — PROV THE FAL STRAW. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH CASSI. HONOR BEFORE REASON: FORCIBLY REJECTS THE IA OF POISONG CAAR AND ORRS THAT MARC ANTONY NOT BE KILLED (THOUGH THE NSPIRATORS TRY BEHD HIS BACK). WHEN ANTONY TURNS UP AT HIS HOE TO ARRANGE A TCE AND EVERYONE ELSE ARGU THAT WOULD BE SAFER TO KILL HIM ON THE SPOT, HE REF TO VLATE SACRED HOSPALY. IDLE RICH: AT THE START OF THE SERI, HE'S A PATRICIAN WH LTLE UNRSTANDG OR TERT POLICS, WHICH IS A BLEMISH ON THE JUNII FAY NAME. IGNORED EPIPHANY: SORT OF. IN LATE SEASON ONE HE FEELS BETRAYED BY CAAR AND GIV TO HIS MOTHER, GOG ALONG WH THE PLOT TO KILL THE DICTATOR. HE GO THROUGH WH , BUT THEN ANTONY AND THEY SHARE A LOOK WHERE BT' GUILT IS WRTEN ALL OVER HIS FACE. HE THEN CRI OUT AGONY OVER WHAT HE'S DONE. HOWEVER HE SEEMS TO GET OVER RATHER FAST, AND STAYS ALLIED TO CASSI TO THE VERY END. IRONIC ECHO: "YOU TOO, MOTHER?" WHEN SERVILIA SUGGTS HE SHOULD JO POMPEY'S SI. IN THE SAME SCENE HE EXPLAS TO HIS MOTHER THAT CAAR MAY TAKE ROME BUT EVENTUALLY SOME AMB MAN WOULD KILL HIM... IT HAS BEEN AN HONOR: INVOK THIS WHEN ADDRSG THE SURVIVORS OF HIS ARMY AFTER HIS FEAT AT THE BATTLE OF PHILIPPI, BEFORE TELLG THEM TO SAVE THEMSELV.BT: IT HAS BEEN AN HONOUR AND A PRIVILEGE LEADG YOU, AND I AM SORRY WE ULD NOT DO BETTER. KARMIC DEATH: AT PHILIPPI, HE IS SURROUND BY A REGIMENT OF CAAR'S VETERANS AND STABBED TO ATH A MANNER LIBERATELY REMISCENT OF THE ASSASSATN. MALE FRONTAL NUDY: HILARLY BEME MUCH MORE POPULAR WH THE FANBASE AFTER HE TOOK A NAKED SWIM SEASON TWO. MISTREATMENT-INDUCED BETRAYAL: WHEN CAAR APPOTS HIM ERNOR OF MACEDONIA, BT DON'T TAKE BEG REASSIGNED TO ANTARCTI AND THE PERCEIVED MISTST WELL, WHICH LEADS TO HIM JOG THE NJURATN AGAST CAAR. MOMMA'S BOY: IS VASTATED BY SERVILIA'S REJECTN OF HIM AFTER HE RETURNS TO ROME AND REF TO GO ALONG WH HER SCHEM. MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?: HIS SPERATN AFTER CAAR'S ASSASSATN IS DOWNRIGHT HEARTBREAKG. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: OPENLY STAT TO CAAR THAT HE REGARDS HIM AS HIS FATHER. NEVER FOUND THE BODY: BT'S BODY LAY AMONG OTHER SOLDIERS. THE ONLY THG THAT DIT HIS INTY IS HIS RG BUT THAT GETS STOLEN BY A SVENGER. RIGHT BEHD ME: HAPPENS TO HIM "PHARSAL" WHILE SULTG POMPEY. HE DON'T MD. TRAGIC HERO: IS BASILLY ED AS A PAWN BY HIS OWN MOTHER, WHOSE TE MOTIVE IS NOT PREVENTG A TYRANNY BUT AVENGG HER OWN REJECTN BY CAAR. UNWTG PAWN: IN HIS TRODUCTORY SCENE, CAAR IS G HIM TO NVEY FALSE RMATN TO POMPEY THAT HIS LEGNS ARE ON THE VERGE OF MUTY, SO AS TO APPEAR WEAK AND PROVOKE THE POMPEY FACTN TO STRIKG FIRST. "WELL DONE, SON" GUY: TOWARDS BOTH CAAR AND HIS MOTHER. WHY DON'T YOU JT SHOOT HIM?: REJECTS SAFER ALTERNATIV TO KILLG CAAR LIKE POISON OR ATTACKG HIM HIS SLEEP, BEE SUCH A TYRANNICI IS NOT JT A MON MURR BUT AN HONORABLE ACT.SERVILIA OF THE JUNII"GODS OF THE JUNII, WH THIS OFFERG I ASK YOU TO SUMMON TYCHE, MEGAERA AND NEMIS, SO THAT THEY WNS THIS CURSE. BY THE SPIRS OF MY ANCTORS, I CURSE GAI JULI CAAR. LET HIS PENIS WHER. LET HIS BON CRACK. LET HIM SEE HIS LEGNS DROWN THEIR OWN BLOOD. GODS OF THE FERNO, I OFFER TO YOU HIS LIMBS, HIS HEAD, HIS MOUTH, HIS BREATH, HIS SPEECH, HIS HANDS, HIS LIVER, HIS HEART, HIS STOMACH. GODS OF THE FERNO, LET ME SEE HIM SUFFER EPLY, AND I WILL REJOICE AND SACRIFICE TO YOU."BT' MOTHER AND LONG TIME MISTRS TO JULI CAAR. SERVILIA IS A BTER AND EVIL WOMAN, BUT HER DANGERONS ALWAYS FALLS ONE LEVEL SHORT OF HER MA RIVAL, ATIA OF THE JULII.PLAYED BY LDSAY DUNN. ANTAGONIST MOURNG: IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY, WHEN HER SON RMS HER THAT CAAR IS AD SHE SHEDS A SGLE TEAR. SHE THEN TURNS UP WIDOW'S WEEDS TO VIEW HIS BODY, SPE BEG SPAT ON BY HIS WIDOW. WHEN SHE VIEWS THE BODY HOWEVER, HER EXPRSN IS REFULLY MASKED SO WE DON'T KNOW IF SHE'S HAPPY OR REGRETFUL. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: PLAYS THE POOR VICTIM VERY WELL BUT OFTEN IS JT AS VIC AND MANIPULATIVE AS HER ENEMI. COMPOSE CHARACTER: TAK TRAS OM PORCIA CATONIS, BT' WIFE WHO IS OMTED THE SHOW. COLD-BLOOD TORTURE: IS SUBJECTED TO THIS AT THE HANDS OF ATIA. CURSE: THROWS A BUNCH AT CAAR AND ATIA. DISPROPORTNATE RETRIBUTN: CAAR ENDS HIS RELATNSHIP WH HER FOR POLIL REASONS, BTALLY STRIKG HER WHEN SHE PROTTS HIS MOTIV. IN PAYBACK SHE DO EVERYTHG SHE N TO ENGEER THE ATH OF THE LER OF THE ENTIRE ROMAN EMPIRE, PLUNGG TO CIVIL WAR. DPE HER CLAIMS TO BE STOPPG A WOULD-BE TYRANT, SHE'S ENTIRELY MOTIVATED BY PERSONAL VENGEANCE. DRIVEN TO SUICI: AS A THANATOS GAMB. DYG CURSE: THROWS TO ATIA DURG HER LAST RANT. DYG MOMENT OF AWOME: AS ANTONY PUTS , NOW THAT'S AN EX. DEFIANT TO THE END: WHEN KIDNAPPED BY ATIA SEASON 2 AND FACED WH THE CERTAY OF ATH SERVILIA DONT SHOW ANY FEAR, EVEN WHEN ATIA REVEALS SH PLANNG TO HAVE HER TORTURED AND RAPED BEFOREHAND. EVEN AFTER HOURS OF AGONIZG TORTURE HER RPONCE TO ATIA MANDG SHE BEG FOR ATH IS TO SP HER FACE. EVIL VERS EVIL: HER NFLICT WH ATIA. HYPOCRE: SHE REF TO LEAVE ROME WH HER SON BT, KNOWG THAT CAAR IS RETURNG TO HER AS WELL. HOWEVER WHEN BT RETURNS TO ROME HAVG ACCEPTED CAAR'S PARDON, SHE TREATS HIM WH NTEMPT BEE SHE NOW HAT CAAR. LOVE RUS THE REALM: CAAR LAYS CSHG POMPEY'S FORC TO DALLY ROME WH HER. ATIA GETS WD OF THIS AND HAS HER MNS START A MPAIGN OF OBSCENE GRAFFI MOCKG THEIR RELATNSHIP, FORCG CAAR TO BREAK UP WH HER AND SETTG THE TRAGIC EVENTS MOTN. MANIPULATIVE BCH: THOUGH NOT QUE ON PAR WH ATIA. THE MISTRS: TO CAAR. MY BELOVED SMOTHER: TO BT. HISTORIL VILLA UPGRA: MUCH LIKE ATIA. AT LEAST THE HISTORIL CHARACTER WAS REALLY VOLVED CAAR'S MURR, IF ONLY CINTALLY. NICE JOB FIXG IT, VILLA: HER SCHEM E THE ATH OF HER OWN SON, AND ONLY ENSURE THAT WORSE TYRANTS THAN CAAR E TO LE. THE RIVAL: TO ATIA. SMUG SNAKE: ENGAG EVIL GLOATG TO ATIA BY PERSONALLY RMG HER OF CAAR'S ATH. THANATOS GAMB / TAKG YOU WH ME: CERTALY THOUGHT SHE WAS PULLG ONE, AS SHE KILLED HERSELF AS A HUMAN SACRIFICE TO CURSE ATIA. AND ATIA'S FORTUN DO TAKE A NOSEDIVE AFTER THAT... TRMATIC HAIRCUT / SHAMEFUL STRIP: SHE'S ATTACKED ON THE STREET BY TIMEON'S THUGS AND STRIPPED NAKED, WHILE A VEILED FIGURE (LIKELY ATIA HERSELF) CUTS OFF HER HAIR, RETALIATN FOR GETTG OCTAVIA TO SCE OCTAVIAN. VILLAO BSOD: FOLLOWG BT' ATH. WICKED WCH: SHE CERTALY KNOWS CREEPY RUALS, BUT HAS NO MAGIC POWERS AT ALL. OR DO SHE? WOMAN SRNED: SO VERY MUCH. JT READ THAT QUOTE. WORTHY OPPONENT: ATIA'S FAL WORDS ON THE SERI ACKNOWLEDGE HER AS THIS.CATO THE YOUNGER"AH, SO FACT THIS IS NOT A HUIATG FEAT AT ALL, BUT A RARE SPECI OF VICTORY!"A STUBBORN, STNCH TRADNALIST SENATOR AND FENR OF THE REPUBLIC, AND AS A RULT, A CLARED ENEMY OF CAAR. ALSO HALF-BROTHER TO SERVILIA AND UNCLE TO BT. PLAYED BY KARL JOHNSON. AGE LIFT: THE REAL LIFE CATO WAS ACTUALLY YOUNGER THAN CAAR. COMMANR CONTRARIAN: MAK A REER OUT OF . DEADPAN SNARKER: JT SEE HIS QUOTE ABOVE! DELIBERATE VALU DISSONANCE: WE MT SAVE THE REPUBLIC BY MAKG SURE THOSE DIRTY PLEBS DON'T GET THEIR HANDS ON THE ERNMENT! DEMOCRACY IS BAD: ONE OF HIS BIGGT PROBLEMS WH CAAR. DRIVEN TO SUICI: STABS HIMSELF WH A BREAD KNIFE. THE EEYORE: YOU N ALWAYS UNT ON CATO TO SPEAK NEGATIVELY, PECIALLY WHEN MATTERS ARE AT THEIR WORST. HE MA THIS CLEAR TO SCIP AS A SHORT SHUT UP, KIRK! SPEECH.SCIP: CHEER UP, WE LIVE. WE LIVE AND WHERE THERE'S LIFE, THERE'S HOPE.CATO: I'M AAID IF WE'VE DONE ANYTHG OLD IEND, WE'VE DISPROVED THAT PROVERB. GMPY OLD MAN: OFTEN SHOWN THROUGH SNARK. HEROIC BSOD: AFTER LOSG THE BATTLE OF THAPS, HE KILLS HIMSELF AS HE NO LONGER BELIEV THAT VICTORY IS POSSIBLE, YET IS UNWILLG TO SUBM TO CAAR. LIMED WARDROBE: STANDS OUT AMONG THE SENATE BY WEARG ALWAYS A SIMPLE BLACK TOGA. THE ONLY TIME HE AVERTS THIS IS WHEN PUTTG ON ARMOUR. TOXIC FRIEND INFLUENCE: CATO NSTANTLY GIV POMPEY BAD ADVICE.GAI CASSI LONG"TH EVER FOR TYRANTS!"ANOTHER FELLOW SENATOR AND CLOSE IEND OF BT. HE MASTERMDS CAAR'S ASSASSATN.PLAYED BY GUY HENRY. CASSANDRA TTH: WARNS BT THAT ANTONY IS TOO DANGERO TO LIVE AND MT BE KILLED REGARDLS OF HONOR. BT REF TO LISTEN AND ANTONY SOON RO THE PEOPLE AGAST THEM, THEN FEATS THEIR FORC THE SUBSEQUENT CIVIL WAR. FATAL FAY PHOTO: OR "FATAL PROMISE OF A BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR NEXT YEAR". HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH BT. IN REAL LIFE, PART OF THEIR ALLIANCE WAS CEMENTED ON THE FACT THAT CASSI WAS MARRIED TO BT' SISTER, BUT THIS IS NOT MENTNED THE SHOW. RICH BCH: BELIEV THE SENATE SHOULD BE RTRICTED TO WEALTHY ROMANS. WH CAAR PROMOTG MONERS AND FOREIGNERS SO AS TO LOAD THE SENATE WH HIS OWN LACKEYS, HE BELIEV THE PATRICIAN CLASS WILL SOON BE POWERLS. TOXIC FRIEND INFLUENCE: TURNS BT AGAST CAAR.ELENIA SLAVE PROPERTY OF SERVILIA. PLAYED BY SUZANNE BERTISH. HAPPS SLAVERY: TO SERVILIA, WILLGLY ASSISTG HER HER VENTTA AGAST CAAR. SHIPPER ON DECK: ASSUR SERVILIA THAT CAAR TLY LOV HER UNTIL HE MONSTRAT OTHERWISE. TOGETHER DEATH: AFTER HIS MISTRS KILLS HERSELF AS A HUMAN SACRIFICE, SHE WILLGLY FOLLOWS SU. UNDYG LOYALTY: TO THE POT OF MTG SUICI AFTER HER MISTRS DO.     POMPEII HOEHOLD GNAS POMPEY MAGN"IT SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE TO LOSE. THAT IS ALWAYS A BAD SIGN."ONCE A MIGHTY NQUEROR AND HERO OF THE REPUBLIC, POMPEY IS A JAD CONSUL OF ROME, LIVG MOSTLY ON PAST GLORI BY THE TIME THE SHOW STARTS. WHEN CAAR TRI TO SEIZE POWER HE SIS WH THE SENATE AGAST HIM. PLAYED BY KENH CRANHAM. ALWAYS SOMEONE BETTER: HE'S A GREAT GENERAL HIS OWN RIGHT BUT ULTIMATELY N'T HOLD A NDLE TO CAAR. THIS BOTHERS HIM A LOT. ARRANGED MARRIAGE: HIS MARRIAGE TO JULIA, DGHTER OF CAAR, IS SPECIFILLY POTED AS THE ONLY THG THAT MAK THE TWO GET ALONG. HER DEATH BY CHILDBIRTH SETS THE SHOW MOTN. LATER, AN ATTEMPT TO SOLVE THEIR NFLICT BY MAKG HIM MARRY OCTAVIA FALLS THROUGH. THE CHAS OF COMMANDG: AFTER A SLAVE BRGS POMPEY A MSAGE THAT CAAR HAS REJECTED HIS TERMS, HE'S FACED WH A CISN: SHOULD HE FIGHT OR FLEE? POMPEY THEN TALKS OF HOW ENV HE IS OF THE SLAVE, WHO HAS ALL HIS CISNS MA FOR HIM. COMBAT PRAGMATIST: POMPEY ULD HAVE BEATEN CAAR HAD HE STUCK TO HIS ORIGAL STRATEGY OF WAG HIM OUT UNTIL CAAR'S ARMY NS OUT OF SUPPLI. INSTEAD, HE IS NVCED TO ATTACK HIM HEAD-ON. DEPATN PRENTATN: GETS HIS HEAD ON A PLATE OFFERED TO CAAR BY THE EGYPTIANS, WHO WISH TO GRATIATE THEMSELV WH HIM. CAAR IS SUPREMELY PISSED. DIRTY OLD MAN: THE MARRIAGE WAS NCELLED, BUT HE MA E OF HIS "RIGHTS" WH OCTAVIA ANYWAY. HE'S ALSO SHOWN LEERG AT A RATHER LEWD STAGE PLAY. DUE TO THE DEAD: THE EGYPTIAN KG PTOLMEY XV TELLS CAAR THAT HE PLANNED TO TURN POMPEY'S RPSE TO A MARTE, BUT THE PLANS FELL THROUGH, LEAVG ONLY HIS PRERVED HEAD TO BE PRENTED. CIRCUMSTANC MAKE DIFFICULT TO KNOW IF HIS MISTERS WERE LYG WHEN THEY CLAIM POMPEY'S BODY WAS CREMATED WH FULL HONORS, AND CAAR TAK PAS TO ENSURE HIS HEAD IS AT LEAST SHOWN GIVEN A PROPER FUNERAL. ET TU, BTE?: HE GETS OFFED BY A FORMER SOLDIER OF HIS, NOW WORKG AS A MERCENARY FOR THE EGYPTIANS. FAY-UNIENDLY DEATH: POMPEY IS STABBED AND PATED ONT OF HIS FAY. GLORY DAYS: CLGS TO HIS. GONE HORRIBLY WRONG: HE'S BEHD THE IA OF THE MOTN TO CLARE CAAR AN ENEMY OF THE REPUBLIC, BUT DON'T WANT TO BE ACTUALLY PASSED AS 'S ONLY MEANT AS A WARNG TO CAAR TO MAKE CLEAR HIS POLIL ISOLATN. IT DO PASS WHEN ANTONY IS NOT ABLE TO VETO , TH FORCG CAAR TO CIVIL WAR. GREEN-EYED MONSTER: HE IS JEALO OF CAAR FOR "STEALG THE LOVE OF THE PEOPLE" OM HIM. HEROIC BSOD: AFTER LOSG THE BATTLE OF PHARSAL. A LEGNARY FDS HIM MUTTERG TO HIMSELF, HE DON'T REACT AT THE NEWS OF CAAR'S MEN BEARG DOWN ON THEM, AND DON'T APPEAR TO HAVE ANY FIGHT LEFT HIM WHATSOEVER: WHEN HIS SERVANTS ABANDON HIM AND HIS FAY HE DON'T EVEN BOTHER TO PROTT. HUIATN CONGA: AFTER LOSG AT PHARSAL THE SENATE SIST ON TRAVELG SEPARATELY TO EGYPT, HIS SOLDIERS SERT HIM AND HE'S FORCED TO RELY ON A GREEK GUI WHO TRI TO SELL HIM OUT. FORTUNATELY VOREN IS AN HONOR BEFORE REASON TYPE, AND SEEG POMPEY IS A BEATEN MAN HE ELECTS NOT TO TURN HIM . POMPEY THEN P TO EGYPT ONLY TO BE KILLED BY A FORMER CENTURN OF HIS. KG INGNO: AFTER LOSG THE BATTLE OF PHARSAL, HE P DISGUISED AS A GREEK TRAR. THE MAGNIFICENT: THE LAST PART OF HIS NAME MEANS "THE GREAT." MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY: TELLS CICERO TO EHER GIVE HIM THE SUPPORT OF THE MORATE SENATORS, OR HE'LL PACK UP HIS LEGNS AND SAIL FOR SPA, LEAVG THEM AT THE MERCY OF CAAR. RETIRED BADASS: MORE OR LS. HE HASN'T RETIRED EVERYTHG BUT HE'S NO LONGER LEADG ARMI AT THE START. THAT CHANG. THIRD-PERSON PERSON: IN TWO NOTABLE STANC, UALLY TO HIGHLIGHT THE GLORY OF HIS PAST AND THE SECURY OF HIS LEGACY AGAST CAAR'S RISG STAR. ONE (WHICH IS PRUMABLY HOW HE UALLY DO ) IS TO VOKE THAT HE IS NOT SURRENRG TO CAAR SPE HIS TACTIL DISADVANTAGE (PECIALLY AS IS FACT SOUND STRATEGY). THIS DO, HOWEVER, KD OF HELPS HIGHLIGHT HOW HE'S MORE OF A SMUG SNAKE PAST HIS PRIME, THAT HE N'T EVEN GET THE SENATORS TO PUT THEIR FAH HIM. THIS IS NOT SURRENDER! POMPEY MAGNUS DOES NOT SURRENDER. THE SEND IS MORE PLAYED FOR DRAMA, AS HE EVENTUALLY RELENTS TO VOREN TELLG HOW THE BATTLE OF PHARSAL WENT DOWN. NOTABLY, SPE CLAIMG TO BE A GREEK TRAR, HE'S BEE SO JECTED HE N'T EVEN MATA HIS ALIBI (SLIPPG TO FIRST PERSON). HIS REFERENCE TO "POMPEY MAGN" THIRD PERSON HERE SOUNDS MORE LIKE HE DON'T EVEN NSIR HIMSELF WORTHY OF THE NAME ANYMORE. THE PATHOS OF NVC VOREN TO HAVE MERCY AND LET HIM GO. LUCI VOREN: SURELY POMPEY HAD CAAR AT GREATER DISADVANTAGE. POMPEY MAGN: HE DID... HE DID. IT DIDN'T SEEM POSSIBLE TO LOSE. THAT'S ALWAYS A BAD SIGN. [POMPEY BEGS TO E A STICK TO DRAW THE BATTLEFIELD THE DIRT] THE BATTLEFIELD WAS ON A PLA BY A RIVER AT THE FOOT OF SOME LOW HILLS. LIKE THIS, YOU SEE. THE L MET HERE. MY MEN HELD THEIR GROUND WELL, SO I SENT MY HORS AT HIS RIGHT FLANK. WHICH IS PERFECTLY RRECT, YOU'LL AGREE. LUCI VOREN: I DO. POMPEY MAGN: ONLY THE WARDS WERE REPULSED. REPULSED BY A SGLE HORT OF RERV. TURNED AND FLED, 200 HORS. CRASHED DIRECTLY TO MY LEFT FLANK. ROLLED UP MY LE LIKE A RPET. PUT THE WHOLE DAMN ARMY TO FLIGHT. AND HERE I AM. THAT'S HOW POMPEY MAGN WAS FEATED. THAT'S HOW THE REPUBLIC DIED. UNRTIMATG BADASSERY: CAAR THKS HE'S PAST , BUT POMPEII SHOWS HE'S STILL GOT A FEW TRICKS UP HIS SLEEVE AND CLOSE TO FEATG CAAR GREECE. UNFORTUNATELY HIS STRATEGIC SKILL ISN'T AS GOOD AS CAAR'S TACTIL SKILL ON THE BATTLEFIELD.QUT VALERI POMPEY"KILL HIM TOO, WHAT DO MATTER?"POMPEY'S SON AND A ARY LEAR THE SENATE FACTN.PLAYED BY RICK WARN. COMPOSE CHARACTER: HE IS LOOSELY BASED ON POMPEY'S TWO HISTORIL SONS, GNAS POMPEY THE YOUNGER AND SEXT POMPEY. DEADLY HUG: AFTER SEEG BT PUBLICLY EMBRACE ANTONY, HE'S NFED WHEN ANTONY MAK A SHOW OF APPROACHG HIM ALSO WH HAND OUTSTRETCHED IENDSHIP. UNTIL ANTONY CUTS HIS THROAT WH THE KNIFE HIDN HIS OTHER HAND. THE DRAGON: TO HIS FATHER, WHO SENDS HIM TO REVER THE MISSG TREASURY GOLD. UNFORTUNATELY HIS HIRED THUGS ARE LS THAN RELIABLE AND HE GETS PTURED BY PULLO AND VOREN. DROWNG MY SORROWS: BE ONE AFTER HIS FATHER'S ATH AND FEAT. HE QUICKLY BOUNC BACK AFTER SERVILIA TAK HIM TO HER HOEHOLD AND MAK HIM HER ALLY. HEROIC SEND WD: TURNS UP STARVG, DNK AND DISTRGHT OUTSI BT' HOE SEEKG SANCTUARY, AND WHEN THE SERVANTS THROW HIM OUT STARTS SHOUTG LOUDLY AT THE MAN HE THKS IS SI FOR MAKG PEACE WH CAAR. INSI IS SERVILIA, ALSO AT HER LOWT EBB AFTER HAVG BEEN HUIATED BY ATIA'S THUGS. SHE'S ABOUT TO ORR HE BE SENT AWAY WHEN SHE LISTENS TO WHAT QUT IS SHOUTG AND REALIS THAT HERE IS SOMEONE WHO HAT CAAR AS MUCH AS SHE DO. WHEN BT HOME HE FDS A SMUG QUT RINCE, HLY BATHED, FED, AND AN EAGER PARTICIPANT HIS MOTHER'S SCHEM. IN-SERI NICKNAME: "NEPTUNE'S SURGE". NO GOOD DEED GO UNPUNISHED: AFTER HE'S PTURED STEAD OF HOLDG QUT AS A HOSTAGE AGAST HIS FATHER, CAAR HAS HIM RELEASED AS A SIGN OF MAGNANIMY. ANTONY IS SO AGHAST HE'S REPRIMAND BY CAAR FOR SUBORDATN. HE BE ONE OF THE KEY NSPIRATORS CAAR'S ASSASSATN. OVERZEALO UNRLG: OR AT LEAST HE'S PASSED OFF AT THIS AFTER ATTEMPTG TO KILL MARC ANTONY. NO-ONE IS FOOLED, LEAST OF ALL ANTONY. REFUGE AUDACY: IN REVENGE FOR CAAR'S ATH AND AN EARLIER ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE, ANTONY LMLY WALKS UP TO HIM ON THE STREET AND CUTS HIS THROAT, LEAVG HIS THUGS GAPG NFN. TOKEN EVIL TEAMMATE: HAS NONE OF THE MORAL QUALMS OF BT, AND TRI TO ASSASSATE MARC ANTONY AGAST HIS DIRECT ORRS. TORTURE TECHNICIAN: SERV AS THIS FOR HIS FATHER.CORNELIASCIP'S DGHTER AND POMPEY'S SEND WIFE. THE PROMISE: THAT SHE AND HER FAY WILL RETURN. THEY NEVER DO. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOE?: SHE AND POMPEY'S CHILDREN ARE LAST SEEN WNSG HIM GETTG KILLED.    THE ROMAN UNRWORLD ERAST FULMEN"I TOOK YOUR CHILDREN PAYMENT FOR YOUR MANY SLIGHTS TO ME. I FUCKED THEM. THEN I KILLED THEM. AND THEN I THREW THEM THE RIVER."A THLS BSMAN WHO NTROLS ROME'S MOST POWERFUL CRIMAL GANG, THE AVENTE LLEGIUM, UNR A PRETENSE OF LEGALY.PLAYED BY LORN CRANCH. ALL DEVOURG BLACK HOLE LOAN SHARKS: THOUGH HE REF TO EXTEND CRED TO VOREN, CG THIS TROPE, HE HAS NO ISSUE WH G HIM AS A PAID ENFORCER TO LLECT HIS OWN BTS. ATTACK! ATTACK... RETREAT! RETREAT!: ERAST TURNS UP WH HIS GANG AT VOREN' HOE TO MURR HIM, ONLY TO FD CAAR'S PERSONAL GUARD STANDG OUTSI. HE BEATS A HASTY RETREAT. UNFORTUNATELY HE DON'T FET HIS GDGE AND RETURNS TO THE HOE AFTER HEARG OF CAAR'S ATH. BAD BOSS: ERAST IS FUR THAT VOREN SLAPPED HIS MAN, BEE ONLY HE IS ALLOWED TO CHASTISE HIS OWN MEN, WHICH HE PROMPTLY MONSTRAT BY BREAKG A VASE OVER THE MAN'S HEAD. DEPATN PRENTATN: AN ENRAGED VOREN CHOPS OFF HIS HEAD AND KEEPS AS A TROPHY. DISPROPORTNATE RETRIBUTN: VOREN SLAPS ONE OF HIS MEN, SO HE MANDS VOREN PUBLILLY SUBM TO HIM OR HE WILL KILL HIM, RAPE HIS WIFE AND DGHTERS, AND BURN DOWN HIS HOE. HE'S UNABLE TO RRY OUT HIS THREAT, BUT AFTER CAAR'S ATH HE RETURNS TO VOREN HOME TO GET REVENGE, ONLY TO FD HIS FAY THERE UNPROTECTED. ERAST HAS THEM SOLD TO SLAVERY. THE DON: RUL THE AVENTE LLEGIUM SEASON ONE. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: ERAST THREATENS TO DISJOT ANY OF HIS MEN WHO TAKE PART THE ANARCHY AFTER CAAR'S ATH, AS 'S SUPPOSED TO BE A TIME OF MOURNG FOR A NSUL OF ROME. HE LIVERS THIS THREAT WHILE A ROOM FULL OF HIS MEN DRKG AND WHORG."WE OBSERVE THE FUCKG CENCI!" FACE DEATH WH DIGNY: EVEN AFTER SEEG HOW VOREN AND PULLO HAVE MASSACRED ALL HIS MEN, ERAST DON'T LOSE NTROL TO HIS FEAR. HE TAK A DRK, TNTS VOREN OVER THE ATH OF HIS CHILDREN, THEN LMLY CLOS HIS EY FOR THE ATH BLOW. FX AFFABLY EVIL: HE'S TRODUCED AS THE GUT OF HONOR AT VOREN' FEAST TO ENSURE A SUCCSFUL BS, AND KEEPS UP THE FA OF A SUCCSFUL LOL BSMAN UNTIL HE ORRS VOREN TO BREAK A MAN'S HAND AND THEN CUT HIS THROAT. VOREN WALKS OUT ON HIS, WHICH ERAST TAK AS AN SULT TO HIS THORY. HORRIBLE JUDGE OF CHARACTER: ASSUM THE GRIM, STOIC VOREN WILL MAKE A EFUL ENFORCER, NOT UNRSTANDG HIS PRI AND HONOR. HE THEN UNRTIMAT JT HOW DANGERO VOREN AND PULLO ARE. VOREN TURN THKS ERAST IS JT A SUCCSFUL BSMAN WHO WANTS A BODYGUARD, UNTIL HE'S ASKED TO TORTURE AND KILL A MAN. IRONIC NAME: 'ERAST' MEANS 'LOVER' ANCIENT GREEK. I SHALL TNT YOU: REALISG HE'S ABOUT TO DIE, ERAST CLAIMS TO HAVE RAPED AND MURRED VOREN' CHILDREN. VOREN CUTS HIS HEAD OFF ON THE SPOT, WHICH WAS LIKELY WHAT HE TEND; BETTER A QUICK EXECUTN THAN BEG TORTURED TO ATH. IT'S ALSO A FAL ACT OF SPE, AS WE LATER DISVER THE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN MA A SLAVE. KNEEL BEFORE ZOD: ERAST ORRS VOREN TO KILL A BTOR WHO REF TO PAY UP. VOREN REF AND LEAV HIS ANISATN, WHICH ERAST TAK AS AN SULT. WHEN VOREN STOPS HIS THUGS OM KILLG AN BTED MAN ONT OF HIS SHOP (NOT FOR JT KILLG HIM, MD YOU), ERAST MANDS VOREN MAKE A PUBLIC APOLOGY AND KISS HIS FEET PUBLIC. IF VOREN REF HE'LL BE KILLED, BUT NOT BEFORE SEEG HIS WIFE AND DGHTERS RAPED AND HIS HOE BURNT TO THE GROUND. LEGIMATE BSMEN'S SOCIAL CLUB: AT VOREN' FEAST UPON OPENG HIS BS, NBE TRODUC HIM AS THE GUT OF HONOR, A BSMAN VOLVED OLIV, BUILDG, AND FIRE SURANCE. POLILLY INRRECT VILLA: FULMEN HAT SLAV AND FOREIGNERS.GAIA"I TOLD YOU I'M NOT A WHORE."A FORMER BROTHEL SUPERVISOR TASKED WH KEEPG THE CTOMERS ON LE, WHO IS HIRED BY VOREN AFTER HE TAK OVER ERAST FULMEN'S GANG. WHILE TECHNILLY A SLAVE, GAIA IS A TOUGH AND VDITIVE WOMAN THAT STOPS AT NOTHG TO GET WHAT SHE WANTS.PLAYED BY ZULEIKHA ROBSON. ACTN GIRL: CAN CERTALY HOLD HER OWN A FIGHT AND TAK PART A MOB WAR. BELLIGERENT SEXUAL TENSN: TRI WH VOREN, AND AFTER NOT GETTG A RPONSE, WH PULLO WH MORE SUCCS. CONVENIENTLY TIMED ATTACK OM BEHD: IN A DRAMATIC IRONY SHE'S FATALLY STABBED AFTER SAVG PULLO'S LIFE, ONLY TO BE STRANGLED BY HIM ON HER ATHBED. DEATHBED CONFSN: AFTER BEG WOUND BATTLE, SHE NFS TO PULLO THAT WAS HER WHO MURRED EIRENE. PULLO SUFFOT HER AND THROWS HER BODY THE RIVER. TO THE ANCIENT ROMANS, THIS WAS A WAY OF DAMNG SOMEONE. WHOUT PROPER FUNERAL R, THEIR SOUL WOULD BE UNABLE TO ENTER THE UNRWORLD AND THEY WOULD BE STUCK LIMBO FOR ALL ETERNY. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: SHE GENUELY LOV PULLO, AND HER DEATHBED CONFSN IS MOTIVATED AS MUCH BY GUILT OVER HOW SHE'S WRONGED HIM, AS FEAR OF RETRIBUTN OM THE GODS. MURR THE HYPOTENE: SHE KILLS THE HEAVILY PREGNANT EIRENE BY PUTTG AN ABORTIVE SOLUTN HER TEA AND REPLAC HER PULLO'S BED. "NOT IF THEY ENJOYED IT" RATNALIZATN: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PULLO TRI TO 'PUNISH' HER. QU YOUR WHG: TO PULLO ON HER ATHBED. THE RIVAL: TO EIRENE.SLEEPG WH THE BOSS--> VERONI: TO EIRENE'S BETTY.MASCI"THE TTH? THE TTH IS I HAVE KNOWN YOU AS A BROTHER. THE TTH IS THAT I SAVED YOUR LIFE AT GERIA. TOOK AN ARROW FOR . THE ARROW'S STILL THERE, THE TTH IS I'D DO AGA BROTHER. THE TTH IS THAT I'VE BEEN NOTHG BUT A GOOD SOLDIER TO YOU AND A GOOD FUCKG IEND. DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO PULLO. I'LL SEE YOU HAS."A FORMER LEGNARY OF THE THIRTEENTH. AFTER RETURNG OM GL, VOREN GETS HIM AND HIS OTHER RAS LANDS GERMANIA BUT MASCI LOS HIS NCSN PLAYG DICE. HE THEN RETURNS TO ROME AND JOS THE AVENTE GANG AFTER HEARG THAT VOREN HAS TAKEN OVER .PLAYED BY MICHAEL NARDONE. AND ZOIDBERG: VOREN MAK HIM THIRD--MAND BENEATH PULLO, MUCH TO HIS ANNOYANCE AS MASCI ED TO OUTRANK HIM."OH I GET , THIRD FUCKG MAN AND ALL THAT!" BASH BROTHERS: READ THE QUOTE. DON'T TELL MAMA: HE ASKS VOREN NOT TO TELL HIS FAY WHAT HE DO FOR A LIVG. EVERY MAN HAS HIS PRICE: SO HE WILL NVCE CAAR'S VETERANS TO ACCEPT LAND A FARAWAY PROVCE, VOREN OFFERS HIM A BRIBE. HE REF AT FIRST, BUT WHEN VOREN MAK CLEAR 'S AN OFFER YOU CAN'T REFE HE FOLDS. CAAR IS SURPRISED HE SOLD OUT SO CHEAPLY. THE GAMBLG ADDICT: HE WAS GIVEN LAND AFTER LEAVG THE ARMY LIKE ALL RETIRED SOLDIERS, BUT LOST GAMBLG. NO-RPECT GUY: IS LOYAL TO PULLO AND VOREN BUT HIS NEEDS ALWAYS PLAY SEND FIDDLE TO THEIR RELATNSHIP. HE ENDS THE SERI A CRIPPLE, THOUGH STILL A MEMBER OF THEIR GANG AND THE LEAR WHEN PULLO AND VOREN ARE AWAY. OLD FRIEND: TO PULLO AND VOREN. ROCK BOTTOM: BEG AN UNRWORLD ENFORCER IS AN IMPROVEMENT FOR HIM, AFTER LOSG HIS LAND TO HIS GAMBLG.VOREN: THIS ISN'T THE ARMY, BROTHER. WE HEAR — WE'RE PIMPS, KNIFEMEN, THIEV. YOU SURE YOU'RE SUNK SO LOW? MASCI: I WALKED HERE OM CAPUA. I SLEPT DCH. AND WHEN I GET HERE, THEY SAY A BLACK-HEARTED VILLA HAS TAKEN OVER THE AVENTE LLEGE. HE'S LEAGUE WH THE GODS BELOW, THEY SAY. AND HIS NAME IS LUCI VOREN. WELL I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, "MASCI, OLD BOY, YOUR LUCK HAS CHANGED.". UNDYG LOYALTY: TO VOREN AND PULLO. WRONGLY ACCED: AFTER THE AVENTE'S SECRETIVE AND ILLEGAL TRANSPORT OF GOLD FOR THE TRIUMVIRS GO AWRY AND THE GOLD IS TAKEN, THE NCLN IS THAT AN SI MAN MT HAVE REVEALED KNOWLEDGE OF THE MISSN, AND BOTH VOREN AND PULLO ACCE MASCI WHO WAS CHARGE OF SAID OPERATN. HE WAS NOCENT AND WAS ALMOST KILLED FOR .MEMMCAPTA OF THE CAELIANS GANG AND UNEASY ALLY TO VOREN. PLAYED BY DANIEL CERQUEIRA. BEARD OF BARBARISM: AFTER BEG LOCKED A GE AND STARVED. THE DOG B BACK: HE EVENTUALLY P HIS GE AND WOULD HAVE SUCCEED KILLG PULLO IF WEREN'T FOR GAIA. HUIATN CONGA: PULLO B OFF HIS TONGUE, KEEPS HIM A GE AND FEEDS HIM ON SCRAPS AS A MSAGE FOR OTHERS. LOY LOVERS ARE LOSERS: WHEN VOREN TO SEE HIM ABOUT THE THEFT OF HEROD'S GOLD, MEMM IS DISVERED A BACK ROOM TAKG A BLDFOLD AND NU FEMALE SLAVE OM BEHD. HE DON'T SEEM TO BE ENJOYG MUCH AND NEHER APPARENTLY IS SHE, AND WHEN HIS MEETG IS OVER HE DON'T EVEN GO BACK TO FISH OFF, PREFERRG TO S AND DRK WH HIS MEN. MANIPULATIVE BASTARD: MEMM HAS HIS MAN SCE ELR VORENA, THEN HE "DISVERS" THEM TOGETHER AND NVC HER TO SPY ON VOREN FOR HIM. SMUG SNAKE: UP TO THE MOMENT HE LOS HIS TONGUE. SPICLY SIAR SUBSTUTE: TO ERAST FULMEN.    OTHER ROMANS MARC TULLI CICERO"WHEN NONTED BY A HUNGRY WOLF, IS UNWISE TO GOAD THE BEAST, AS CATO WOULD HAVE DO. BUT IS EQUALLY UNWISE TO IMAGE THE SNARLG ANIMAL A IEND AND OFFER YOUR HAND, AS POMPEY DO."THE RENOWNED ROMAN POLICIAN, TELLECTUAL AND MASTER ORATOR, LEAR OF THE MORATE FACTN THE SENATE. CICERO DISTSTS CAAR'S AND LATER MARK ANTONY'S ACTNS BUT LACKS THE SPE (AND, TO BE FAIR, THE ARY MCLE) TO TAKE DIRECT ACTN AGAST THEM.PLAYED BY DAVID BAMBER. ARCH-ENEMY: TO MARK ANTONY. COMPELLG VOICE: THE ORATOR OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, AND ARGUABLY ONE OF THE GREATT PUBLIC SPEAKERS WHO HAS EVER LIVED. COWARDLY LN: HE'S A NON-ACTN GUY AND NOT PHYSILLY BRAVE, BUT THE END HE STANDS UP TO ANTONY AND FAC HIS ATH WH DIGNY. FACE DEATH WH DIGNY: VERY MUCH SO. ARGUABLY THE MOST DIGNIFIED ATH THE SERI, BEE HE SE G OM A LONG WAY OFF AND DON'T HATE TO DO THE RIGHT THG (I.E. WRE A LETTER TO BT AND CASSI WARNG THEM ABOUT ANTONY AND OCTAVIAN JOG FORC) RATHER THAN TRY TO PE. WHEN HIS KILLER ARRIV, HE DON'T PANIC; HIS MA EMOTN APPEARS TO BE REGRET THAT HE HAS TO DIE, BUT HE OFFERS HIS NECK TO THE SWORD AND EARNS THE RPECT OF HIS KILLER. FORHADOWG: MARK ANTONY THREATENS TO HAVE HIS HANDS CUT OFF AND NAILED TO THE SENATE'S DOORS. GUS WHAT HAPPENS YEARS LATER. GONE HORRIBLY WRONG: IS ONE OF THE CULPRS OF THE CIVIL WAR, AS HE SUPPORTS THE MOTN TO CLARE CAAR AN ENEMY OF THE REPUBLIC. IT WAS MEANT AS A POLIL BLUFF, BUT THE MOTN PASS AS ANTONY IS NOT ABLE TO VETO ONLY SANE MAN: A RARE MORATE AND REASONABLE FIGURE MOST OF THE TIME. PROFSNAL BUTT-KISSER: NOT THROUGH SYPHANCY BUT AS A SURVIVAL TACTIC. "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH: ONE OF THE GREAT MASTERS OF THIS TROPE. THE ONE THAT HE GIV MARK ANTONY IS AN EPIC TAKE THAT! AND QUE POSSIBLY ONE OF HIS BIGGT MOMENTS. SHOO THE DOG: TO HIS SLAV THE DAY OF HIS OWN MURR, SO THEY WON'T BE HURT. SLEAZY POLICIAN: HE TURNS UP TO PRAISE THE NSPIRATORS FOR KILLG CAAR, CLAIMG THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE ALLOWED HIM TO JO. BT POLELY IMPLI THAT HE MIGHT HAVE SUNG A DIFFERENT TUNE IF THEY HAD. THEN CICERO DISVERS THAT MARC ANTONY IS STILL ALIVE AND SUDNLY REALIS HE HAS URGENT BS THE UNTRY. AFTER PRAISG THEM A FAL TIME, HE GO TO LEAVE AND BUMPS TO ANTONY WHO HAS TURNED UP TO DISCS A TCE. EVERYONE ENJOYS HIS DISFURE. SMUG SNAKE: AS LEAR OF THE SENATE, HE OVERTIMAT HIS POWER AND GROSSLY UNRTIMAT OCTAVIAN'S. HE'S ALSO DISDAFUL TOWARDS ANTONY AND CAAR, BUT OFTEN ONLY BEHD THEIR BACKS. HE'S ALSO RATHER WEASELLY, PREFERRG TO REMA A NON-ACTN GUY WHILE OTHERS DO THE DIRTY WORK. WORTHY OPPONENT: CAAR RPECTS HIM, BUT THE FEELG IS NOT MUTUAL.METELL SCIP"WHAT A DREADFUL NOISE PLEBS MAKE WHEN THEY'RE HAPPY."A PROMENT GENERAL THE SENATE FACTN AND MEMBER OF THE FAMO SCIP FAY. HE BE POMPEY'S FATHER--LAW THE FIRST EPISO. PLAYED BY PL JSON. DRIVEN TO SUICI: HAS HIS THROAT CUT. THOSE TWO GUYS: IN A WAY, WH CATO.JOSTA"I'VE BEEN DISHONOURED!"A YOUNG PLEBEIAN WOMAN, DGHTER OF A RICH MERCHANT AND CLOSE IEND OF OCTAVIA. PLAYED BY CALA RUTHERFORD. BRALS BETY: COM OFF AS RATHER DZY MOST OF THE TIME. DEFILED FOREVER: STAT THIS AFTER HER RAPE, AND SHE'S FORCED TO MARRY LOWER-CLASS POS AS A RULT. HOWEVER SHE BOUNC BACK REMARKABLY. FALLEN PRCS: JOSTA'S PARENTS ARE KILLED AND THEIR MONEY STOLEN. FUNCTNAL ADDICT: SMOK OPIUM. GOG NATIVE: AFTER MOVG TO EGYPT SHE ADOPT THE LOL DRS AND TO LIKE . NOUVE RICHE: WHY ATIA HAT HER. SHE LOS HER FAI WEALTH THE PURGE YET THANKS TO HER HBAND'S GIFT FOR RPT ALS SHE QUICKLY HAS A LOT OF MONEY TO SPEND. PERFECTLY ARRANGED MARRIAGE: TO POS, ONCE HE'S GAED LIBERTY. SHE WEEPS ON HER WEDDG DAY BUT BY THE NEXT EPISO THEY SEEM VERY HAPPY TOGETHER. SOLE SURVIVOR: ATIA HAS HER ENTIRE FAY MURRED AND SHE SEXUALLY ASSLTED. ALL BEE SHE DON'T LIKE HER. TALKATIVE LOON: LOOKS LIKE THIS TO OCTAVIA AND ATIA AFTER A TIME LIVG EGYPT. UGLY GUY, HOT WIFE: IS MARRIED OFF TO POS.LEPIDA ROMAN GENERAL SENT BY THE SENATE TO FEAT ANTONY, ONLY TO HAVE HIS ENTIRE ARMY FECT TO HIM ON THE SPOT. HE THEN SWCH SIS TOO AND ENDS UP AS ANTONY'S SEND MAND. HE LATER BE THE LEAST POWERFUL OF THE TRIUMVIRATE FORMED WH ANTONY AND OCTAVIAN, BUT GETS AI FOR HIS TROUBL... FOR A WHILE. PLAYED BY RONAN VIBERT. BUTT-MONKEY: TO ANTONY AND OCTAVIAN. A FATHER TO HIS MEN: AVERTED; WHICH ANTONY SUGGTS IS WHY HIS TROOPS WERE SO WILLG TO FECT. GENERAL FAILURE: HIS ENTIRE ARMY FECTS TO ANTONY. ANTONY HOWEVER JT THIS TO -OPT HIM TO HIS SI. KICKED UPSTAIRS: GETS SENT OFF TO ERN THE PROVCE OF AI, FAR OM THE CENTER OF POWER ROME. NUMBER TWO: TO ANTONY AFTER FECTN. POLILLY INRRECT VILLA: LEPID HAT GLS. PUT ON A B: DISAPPEARS AFTER ANTONY AND OCTAVIAN GIVE HIM AI.THE NEWSREAR"THIS MONTH'S PUBLIC BREAD IS PROVID BY THE CAPOLE BROTHERHOOD OF MILLERS. THE BROTHERHOOD ONLY THE FT FLOUR: TE ROMAN BREAD FOR TE ROMANS."A PUBLIC SERVANT THAT CRI NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENTS AT THE FOM ONT OF THE ROMAN SENATE. PLAYED BY IAN MCNEICE. BOOK ENDS: HE APPEARS BOTH THE PILOT AND THE LAST EPISO MAKG THE SAME ANNOUNCEMENT, OFFERG A REWARD FOR A MISSG SLAVE, "NAWAY OR STOLEN". IT'S ED TO SHOW THAT SPE THE VAST HISTORIL CHANG HAPPENED OVER THE SPAN OF THE SERI, THE LIFE OF THE AVERAGE CIZEN REMAS THE SAME. CATCHPHRASE: EVEN HE GETS TIRED OF SAYG, "TE ROMAN BREAD, FOR TE ROMANS." THE CONSTANT: SURVIV ALL THE TURMOIL OF CIVIL WARS AND PUBLIC STRIFE. KENT BROCKMAN NEWS: IN HIS FENSE HIS SCRIPTS ARE WRTEN BY OTHERS. LARGE HAM: IN FAIRNS, 'S PART OF HIS JOB. WHENEVER HE FLAGS HIS EFFORTS, 'S ONLY BEE 'S BEEN A LONG DAY. MILKG THE GIANT COW: DO THIS MALY TO MAKE THE NEWS SEEM SLIGHTLY MORE TERTG. ALSO, ACCURATE FOR THE TIME AS THE HAND SIGNALS HE TO ACPANY HIS WORDS WOULD ED BE ED BY A MAN HIS OCCUPATN. MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG: HIS JOB NSISTS ON SCREAMG WHATEVER PROPAGANDA THE ERNMENT OF THE TIME HANDS TO HIM, AND CHANG AS WILDLY AND QUICKLY AS THE POSN OF THAT ERNMENT DO. HE NEVER QUTNS . NO NAME GIVEN PRODUCT PLACEMENT: ANOTHER NICE HISTORIL TOUCH. WRTEN BY THE WNERS: ALL THE NEWS HE READS. HE ALWAYS PHRAS WORDS TO MAKE SURE LISTENERS WILL KNOW WHO TO ROOT FOR.     EGYPTIANS QUEEN CLEOPATRA VII"I WILL HAVE HIM, OR I DIE. SO I WILL HAVE HIM."THE FAMO LAST HELLENISTIC MONARCH OF EGYPT, A BETIFUL AND AMB WOMAN THAT IS WELL AWARE OF HER POWERS OF SCTN. PLAYED BY LYNDSEY MARSHAL. 0% APPROVAL RATG: BY THE ROMANS, WHO BELIEVE SHE'S A SORCERS WHO'S SWAYED MARK ANTONY OM CENT ROMAN WAYS. ADAPTATNAL ATTRACTIVENS: AS PER ALL POPULAR PICTNS OF CLEOPATRA. A GOD AM I: AS REAL LIFE, CLEOPATRA BELIEVED HERSELF TO BE THE GODSS ISIS RNATE. THIS IS ED FOR RELIG PROPAGANDA, AS HER POLIL AMBNS MAKE LOOK LIKE SHE'S PLANNG TO FORCE THE ROMANS TO WORSHIP FOREIGN GODS. AMBN IS EVIL: CLEOPATRA ISN'T NTENT WH LG EGYPT AND TRI TO TAKE HER SON'S LEGACY, WH WARRG RULTS. ARRANGED MARRIAGE: TO HER YOUNGER BROTHER PTOLEMY, AS PER THE EGYPTIAN CTOM. ARTISTIC LICENSE: THE REAL URT OF CLEOPATRA HAD A STRONG GREEK FLUENCE, DUE TO EGYPT BEG NQUERED BY ALEXANR THE GREAT. THE PRODUCERS WENT WH THE THEME PARK VERSN VERSN TO MAKE MORE CLEAR THE CULTURE CLASH BETWEEN EGYPTIAN AND ROMAN SOCIETY THAT IS LATER ED AGAST ANTONY. BAD BOSS: KILLS ONE OF HER MNS WHILE DISCSG HUNTG WH ANTONY, WHO AT LEAST WAS AVOIDG KILLG THE MAN DRSED UP AS A ER. NOT THAT HE WAS BOTHERED EHER. AROED BY THEIR VOICE: CLEOPATRA PURPOSELY A HIGHER PCHED VOICE ORR TO SCE MEN. SHE'S ALSO JT AS PABLE AS STRIKG FEAR TO HER LTLE BROTHER AND HIS LICKSPTL WH HER EPER VOICE, AS WELL. THE REAL CLEOPATRA WAS SCRIBED TO HAVE A VERY CHARMG AND ALLURG VOICE, AND IS SAID THAT THIS WAS ONE OF HER MORE ATTRACTIVE FEATUR RATHER THAN SIMPLY BEG CREDIBLY BETIFUL. THE BABY TRAP: HER CHILD IS ACTUALLY FATHERED BY PULLO, HAVG CID TO HEDGE HER BETS BY SCG ANOTHER ROMAN BEFORE MEETG CAAR, TO ENSURE SHE'LL HAVE A CHILD. BASE ON WHEELS: CLEOPATRA OPERAT HER REBELLN OUT OF A LTER RRIED BY A DOZEN SLAV BEE SHE IS TOO IMPORTANT TO WALK. CRADLE OF LONELS: DO THIS WH ANTONY'S BODY WHEN SHE SE THROUGH OCTAVIAN'S LI. DRIVEN TO SUICI: ONCE SHE REALIZ SHE N'T NTROL OCTAVIAN THE WAY SHE ULD ANTONY AND CAAR. DU, WHERE'S MY RPECT?: SHE IS CENSED WHEN VOREN REF TO SLEEP WH HER. DYG MOMENT OF AWOME: LERALLY SENDS AWAY OM DYG OM THE SNAKE'S BE, SHE MANAG TO STAND UP, STARE DOWN OCTAVIAN, AND TELL HIM OFF. FUNCTNAL ADDICT: TO OPIUM. IRONY: BEFORE HER ATH, SHE CLAIMS THAT OCTAVIAN HAS A "ROTTEN SOUL," PRUMABLY FOR PLANNG TO KILL HER ADOLCENT SON. CLEOPATRA'S NOT THE NICT PERSON HERSELF, HAVG QUE SIARLY SECURED HER OWN THRONE BY TRAMPLG THE BODY OF ANOTHER CHILD, HER OWN BROTHER. LADY MACBETH: TO ANTONY. MS. FANSERVICE: SPENDS MOST OF HER TIME SEE-THROUGH DRS AND OTHER SKIMPY OUTFS. ALSO APPEARS NAKED A FEW TIM. NUBILE SAVAGE: IN THE ROMANS' EY. PASSIVE-AGGRSIVE KOMBAT: IS ABLE TO BEAT ATIA OF ALL PEOPLE AT THIS GAME. POWER HAIR: HAS A BOYISH HAIRCUT (PROBABLY BEE THE EGYPTIANS PREFER WIGS). PREPARE TO DIE: ACHILLAS' ASSASSS TELL HER THIS HER BUT EPISO, "CAARN". SHE GETS BETTER. PUPPET QUEEN: SHE OPENLY STAT HER WILLGNS TO BE ONE FOR CAAR, SO HE WILL BACK HER CLAIM TO THE THRONE. HOWEVER SHE HAS NO TENTN OF STAYG THAT WAY, SEEKG TO -LE A ROMAN-EGYPTIAN EMPIRE WH MARC ANTONY. REALLY GETS AROUND: BEDS THREE MA CHARACTERS. STRIPPERIFIC: IN ONE SCENE SHE WEARS A GOLD BIKI THAT PRCS LEIA WOULD BE PROUD OF. SEX FOR SERVIC"IF I MT PROSTUTE MYSELF FOR THE GOOD OF MY UNTRY AND MY FAY, I WILL. BUT CTOMER PAYS FIRST, DO HE NOT?" SUPERMOL STT: AS A SCTRS, SHE SOMETIM WALKS WH A LIBERATE STT THAT HAS A SWAY TO HER HIPS AND SHOULRS. TOGETHER DEATH: SUBVERTED; AFTER BEG TOLD THAT CLEOPATRA HAS KILLED HERSELF, MARC ANTONY FOLLOWS SU. SHE THEN TURNS UP VERY MUCH ALIVE TO VOREN'S UNNCEALED NTEMPT. HOWEVER SHE QUICKLY REALIS SHE N'T FLUENCE OCTAVIAN LIKE SHE DID CAAR AND ANTONY, AND KILLS HERSELF FOR REAL. VILLAO BREAKDOWN: SHE HOLDS TOGETHER DURG HER MEETG WH OCTAVIAN, BUT LOS AT THE PALACE ONCE SHE REALIZ THAT OCTAVIAN MEANS TO MURR HER SON. OR, SHE REALIZ THAT HE WON'T LET CLEOPATRA TWIST HIM AROUND HER LTLE FGER LIKE THE LAST TWO ROMAN LERS DID.CLEOPATRA: [SOBBG AND TALKG TO ANTONY'S RPSE] I'M SORRY, MY LOVE. I WAS HUNGRY TO YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT THAT BOY; HE'S A MONSTER! HE ONLY WANTS ME ALIVE SO HE N PARA ME CHAS FOR A MOB TO SP ON!KG PTOLEMY XIII"VASSAL? VASSAL? I AM NO VASSAL! I AM KG!"THE NAïVE CHILD KG OF EGYPT, YOUNGER BROTHER AND HBAND TO CLEOPATRA. PLAYED BY STT CHISHOLM. A CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM: UNFORTUNATELY AS SUCH HE'S EASILY TIMIDATED BY CAAR, SPE MANDG AN ARMY THAT VASTLY OUTNUMBERS HIS OWN. ADIPOSE REX: ON THE WAY TO BEG ONE. A GOD AM I: EXPECTED, SCE HE IS A PHARAOH. ARRANGED MARRIAGE: TO CLEOPATRA. ASSHOLE VICTIM: GIVEN HOW MUCH OF A ROYAL BRAT HE IS, 'S HARD TO FEEL SORRY FOR HIS FATE. BOISTERO WEAKLG: INSULTS CLEOPATRA BUT ONLY BEHD HER BACK. CHARACTER DEATH: AFTER HIS FORC ARE FEATED BATTLE, HE'S SHOWN DROWNED THE NILE. CULTURE CLASH: HE PRENTS POMPEY'S HEAD AND BRAGS ABOUT HOW THEY ULD HAVE ATTACHED TO A MARTE. RATHER THAN BEG GRATEFUL, CAAR IS OUTRAGED AT THIS DISRPECT TO A NSUL OF ROME. DU, WHERE'S MY RPECT?: HE EXPECTS NOTHG BUT TO BE WORSHIPPED. CAAR PUTS HIM QUICKLY HIS PLACE. GUYLER: THOUGH DUE TO CULTURAL REASONS. KG BOB THE NTH KNEEL BEFORE ZOD: US A MN AS A FOOTSTOOL BEE HE'S TOO SMALL FOR HIS THRONE. OH, CRAP!: WHEN CLEOPATRA SHOWS UP THE PALACE "CAARN". PUPPET KG: AND PLETE NIAL ABOUT . "VASSAL? I AM NO VASSAL!" ROYAL BRAT: AS YOU'D EXPECT OM A CHILD KG WHO THKS HE'S A GOD. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: HE IS A LOT LS POWERFUL THAN HE THKS HE IS. CAAR PUTS HIM HIS PLACE. TRY TO F THAT ON A BS CARD:POTH: BEHOLD PTOLEMY! HE OF THE TWO LANDS! HE OF SEDGE AND BEE! BEHOLD PTOLEMY! SON OF RA! PTOLEMY THE DIVE!CAARN"BROTHER OSIRIS, LET ME LIVE TO SP HIS FACE, AND REMD HIM OF THIS DAY!"PRCE OF EGYPT, SON OF CLEOPATRA AND (ALLEGEDLY) CAAR. PLAYED BY NILO BRECCI AND MAX BALDRY. A GOD AM I: RAISED TO BELIEVE THIS. APPEAL TO FLATTERY: WHILE FLEEG OCTAVIAN AS KG INGNO, A ROMAN SOLDIER MAK HIM REVEAL HIMSELF BY ASKG FOR HIS BLSG EGYPTIAN. CONSIR THAT AT NO POT DID THE ROMAN GUARDS HI THEIR INTY. BABY TRAP: CLEOPATRA HAS HIM SO SHE N HAVE A CLAIM ON ROME. TO ENSURE HAVG A CHILD THE FIRST PLACE, SHE HEDG HER BETS BY HAVG LOTS OF SEX WH THE NEART AVAILABLE ROMAN, WHO HAPPENS TO BE PULLO. BEETHOVEN WAS AN ALIEN SPY: CAARN WAS T PULLO'S SON AND SUCCSFULLY PED OCTAVIAN TO LIVE AS A PLEBEIAN ROME. BIG EATER: HE DON'T SHOW OFTEN. BUT HE EATS MORE THAN A BLACK HOLE, SPE BEG RAIL TH. HISTORIL IN-JOKE: THE SHOW NOT SO MUCH IMPLI BUT IS CLEAR THAT HE IS ACTUALLY THE SON OF T PULLO. JABBA TABLE MANNERS: AS A SI EFFECT OF BEG A BIG EATER, HE EATS VERY SLOPPELY AND QUICKLY, TRYG TO GET THE MOST FOOD HIS MOUTH AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE. MAMA'S BABY, PAPA'S MAYBE: HE IS ACTUALLY THE SON OF A MON ROMAN PLEB. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: VOREN BE A SUBSTUTE FATHER TO HIM UNTIL HE'S BROUGHT TOGETHER WH HIS REAL FATHER, PULLO. ROYAL BRAT: IN FAIRNS, HE THKS HE'S THE SON OF A GODSS (AND THEREFORE A GOD HIMSELF) AND THE LER OF THE MOST POWERFUL EMPIRE THE KNOWN WORLD. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: SOMETIM PLAYED FOR EDY. TELL ME ABOUT MY FATHER: CAARN ASKS THIS OF VOREN. HE TELLS HIM ABOUT PULLO.TIMHIFTED ACTOR--> UNKNOWN RIVAL: CAARN PROMIS VENGEANCE AGAST AUGT. AUGT DON'T EVEN KNOW HE'S ALIVE.CHARMIAN"MAJTY MANDS YOU WILL ENTER HER."A TSTED SLAVE THE SERVICE OF CLEOPATRA. PLAYED BY KATHRYN HUNTER. BTAL HONTY: CLEOPATRA HS HER AND N ORR HER ATH AT A WHIM, BUT SHE REF TO GUARD HER TONGUE. IT'S OBV THAT THEY HAVE THE KD OF RELATNSHIP WHERE SHE N GET AWAY WH THIS HONTY HOWEVER. FOIL: CHARMIAN IS THE FEMALE POS. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: TO CLEOPATRA. SERVILE SNARKER: AS WH POS, HER POSN ENABL HER TO GET AWAY WH SAYG THGS THAT WOULD GET OTHERS EXECUTED. THIRD-PERSON PERSON: DUE TO URT ETIQUETTE, AS BEG A SLAVE SHE NNOT ADDRS HER QUEEN DIRECTLY. UNDYG LOYALTY: SHE KEEPS SERVG CLEOPATRA UNTIL SHE KILLS HERSELF (WH CHARMIAN'S HELP), THEN MS SUICI TURN. THIS IS ACRDG TO CTOM, BUT 'S CLEAR THAT SHE SE NO PURPOSE LIVG BEYOND HER QUEEN. VRLIC BT BUDS: CHARMIAN HAS NO PROBLEM TRADG VERBAL BARBS WH HER MOST TEEMED QUEEN.CHARMIAN: SHE KNOWS HOW TO BEAT HER SLAV WELL ENOUGH, BUT SHE NNOT THROW AWAY THAT PIPE, AND SHE KNOWS .CLEOPATRA: INSOLENT DWARF, YOU KNOW NOTHG! (THROWS OPIUM PIPE OUT THE WDOW) WEAK, AM I? YOU NO TAKE CANDLE: SPEAKS WH A NOTICEABLE ACCENT.POTH"A SIMPLE EXTORTN. IF WE DON'T PAY HIM, THEY WILL PUT CLEOPATRA ON THE THRONE."THE EGYPTIAN PRIME MISTER AND REGENT TO KG PTOLEMY. HE GOADS THE YOUNG MONARCH AGAST HIS OLR SISTER-WIFE, CLEOPATRA. PLAYED BY TONY GUILFOYLE. AMBIGUOLY GAY: IT MIGHT NOT BE THE SE THE ORIGAL VERSN, BUT THE SPANISH DUB MAK HIM FLAMBOYANT. WEARG GUYLER DON'T HELP, THOUGH THAT'S ENTIRELY DOWN TO FASHN. BAD LIAR: AND HE THKS HE N FOOL CAAR AND POS... BUTT-MONKEY: IS ED A KICKG BOY DURG A GAME OF BLDMAN'S BLUFF WH HIS KG. AS SUCH HE DON'T NOTICE CAAR AND A NOT QUE DEAD CLEOPATRA ENTERG THE THRONE ROOM BEHD HIM. HE'S THEN OFFERED UP AS THE SPEGOAT FOR ORRG CLEOPATRA'S EXECUTN. HE THEN TRI TO PUT THE BLAME ON THEODOT STEAD. BOTH OF THEM END UP ON A SPIKE. CULTURE CLASH: HE KILLS POMPEY AND PRENTS HIS HEAD TO CAAR THKG THAT WILL GA HIS TST. CAAR IS ENRAGED STEAD. DIRTY COWARD: WHEN THE NSEQUENC E LOOMG, HE BLAM OTHERS FOR HIS OWN MISTAK. EUNUCHS ARE EVIL: THE EVIL CHANCELLOR VERSN. PROFSNAL BUTT-KISSER: TO PTOLEMY. RULE OF THREE: IN AN EXAMPLE OF BLACK COMEDY, HE IS PATED AFTER THEODOT AND POMPEY'S EXECUTNER, AND THEIR HEADS PUT ON SPIK OUTSI OF THE ROYAL PALACE.THEODOT OF CHíOS
• EXCLIVE: MEET "SPARTAC: BLOOD AND SAND"'S INTRIGUG NEW "GAY" {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY MICHAEL JENSENJANUARY 4, 2010/4:31 PMBY MICHAEL JENSENJANUARY 4, 2010 / 4:31 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"EXCLIVE: MEET \"SPARTAC: BLOOD AND SAND\"'S INTRIGUG NEW \"GAY\" CHARACTER","DATEPUBLISHED":"2010-01-04T21:31:23.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2010-01-04T21:31:23.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MICHAEL JENSEN","KEYWORDS":"THE BACKLOT","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}****WARNING*** THIS POST REVEALS THE INTY OF THE GAY CHARACTER THE NEW STARZ SERI SPARTAC: BLOOD AND SAND. STOP READG IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW THEIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANYONE WHO KNOWS EVEN A LTLE ABOUT ANCIENT ROME, GREECE, ETC. KNOWS THAT SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS WERE AN TEGRAL PART OF THOSE SOCIETI. OF URSE, THAT DON'T MEAN HOLLYWOOD HASN'T UALLY CHOSEN TO IGNORE THAT PARTICULAR ASPECT WHEN DOG MOVI OR SHOWS ABOUT THE ERA. THK RSELL CROWE'S GLADIATOR OR GERARD BUTLER'S 300 WHICH PECIALLY OOZED HOMOEROTICISM WHOUT ANY ACTUAL HOMOS. MEANWHILE HBO'S ROME CLUD SOME GIRL/GIRL PAIRGS BUT LEFT OUT THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OBVLY, NOT EVERY ROMAN EPIC NEED HAVE "GAY" NTENT, BUT WOULD BE NICE IF THEY WERE OCSNALLY CLIVE, NOT TO MENTN HISTORILLY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FORTUNATELY, BLE WORK STARZ IS ABOUT TO THE RERD STRAIGHT -- SO TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE FOURTH EPISO OF THE SEASON (BUTG JANUARY 22ND AT 10 PM) WE LEARN THAT THE CHARACTER OF BAR (ANTON TE MAHO), A GLADIATOR FIGHTG THE LUD (THK TRAG AMY) OWNED BY BATIAT (JOHN HANNAH), IS NOT ONLY "GAY" BUT HAS A RELATNSHIP WH A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANTON TE MAHO AS BAR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND WE LEARN THE A PARTICULARLY ... VISUAL WAY. LET'S JT SAY 'S NOT SOMETHG SEEN TOO EQUENTLY ON AMERIN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HOW DO BAR'S FELLOW GLADIATORS FEEL ABOUT HAVG A "GAY" GLADIATOR THEIR MIDST? IS THERE SOME TYPE OF ROMAN "DON'T ASK/DON'T TELL" POLICY AT WORK? NOT THE LEAST. IN FACT, 'S A PLETE NON-ISSUE WHICH IS JT AS SHOULD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HERE IS HOW THE WORK SCRIB THE CHARACTER:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A BIG, HULKG BTE OF A MAN, AN TEEMED GLADIATOR AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BATIAT’S BODYGUARD AND SOMETIM H MAN, BAR IS SEND ONLY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CRIX AT THE LUD. THOUGH POSSSED OF A TEMPER AND AN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STATURE, HE TEMPERS THIS WH THE TENRNS HE SHOWS HIS LLECTN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BIRDS AND PIETROS, A SLAVE BOY. HE IS EE OF GUILE, LOYAL TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT SECRETLY P TO GA HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BAR ISN'T LIKE QUE LIKE ANY OTHER GAY CHARACTER YOU'VE SEEN ON TELEVISN BEFORE. NOT ONLY IS HE TOUGH AS NAILS (HE'S NICKNAMED THE BUTCHER OF CARTHAGE FOR HIS FEATS ON THE BATTLEFIELD), BUT HE'S ALSO KD OF AN ARROGANT, FOUL-MOUTHED JERK WHO, AT LEAST SO FAR, IS NOT ON THE SI OF SPARTAC (ANDY WHFIELD). AND THAT'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WE'RE ALL ABOUT GAY VISIBILY HERE AT AND THAT CLUS GAY CHARACTERS OF ALL STRIP. HAVG A CHARACTER LIKE BAR NOT ONLY ADDS TO THE DIVERSY TO THE TV LANDSPE, BUT UNTERS STEREOTYP THAT A GLADIATOR CHARACTER ULDN'T BE "GAY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BY THE WAY, I KEEP PUTTG THE WORD "GAY" QUOT BEE ANCIENT CULTUR LIKE ROME AND GREECE DIDN'T THK ABOUT SEXUALY THE WAY WE DO. THERE WASN'T REALLY AN IA OF "GAY" OR "STRAIGHT" THE WAY WE THK OF THEM. INSTEAD WAS MUCH MORE ABOUT POWER AND BEG DOMANT VERS BEG SUBMISSIVE. WHICH ISN'T TO SAY THAT TWO MEN ULDN'T LOVE EACH OTHER THE WAY TWO STRAIGHT PEOPLE WOULD.  HOPEFULLY, SPARTAC WILL MUNITE THAT SI OF THGS AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS FOR THE OTHER ASPECTS OF THE SHOW SHOW, WE'LL HAVE A FULL REVIEW THE WEEK BUTS AND WE HAVE AN TERVIEW G UP WH LUCY LAWLS WHO PLAYS LUCRETIA. BUT HAVG SEEN THE FIRST FOUR EPISOS, I N SAY THAT IF YOU ENJOY THE SPECTACLE OF ANCIENT ROME AND GLADIATORS, THE SERI NOT ONLY LOOKS AMAZG, BUT IS VERY WELL-ACTED. AS LONG AS YOU N GET PAST THE GORE, 'S FELY A THUMBS UP OM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND DID I MENTN ALL OF THE GLADIATOR EYE-NDY? CHECK OUT ON THE NEXT PAGE!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HERE ARE THE RT OF THE MEN YOU'LL BE GETTG AN EYEFUL OF. AND I DO MEAN AN EYEFUL! FOR THOSE TERTED THE SORTS OF THGS, I DON'T THK WE'VE HAD THIS MUCH MALE NUDY ON TELEVISN SCE HBO'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANDY WHFIELD AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MANU BEN AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PETER MENSAH AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JAI COURTNEY AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CRAIG PARKER AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NICK E. TARABAY AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT REVEAL THE GAY CHARACTER THE SUBJECT LE OF ANY MENTS YOU MAKE! {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

LUCI VOREN"FORTUNE PISS ON ME."ONE OF THE TWO PROTAGONISTS. WE FIRST MEET HIM AS A CENTURN OF THE 13TH LEGN GL WHO HAS NOT SEEN HOME NOR HIS FAY FOR 8 YEARS AND WISH FOR NOTHG BUT TO GO BACK TO THEM. VOREN IS AN IMPECBLY HONT AND HONORABLE MAN WHO VALU TRADN, LAW AND LOYALTY TO THE ROMAN REPUBLIC ABOVE ALL... SOMETHG THAT WILL BRG HIM NUMERABLE PROBLEMS. PLAYED BY KEV MCKIDD. ABIVE PARENT: TO HIS DGHTERS AND TO NBE'S SON OCSNALLY, THOUGH HE FLIP-FLOPS. THIS IS DUE TO THE NASTY TEMPER MENTNED BELOW. BLASPHEMO BOAST: "I AM THE SON OF HADES, I FUCK CONCORD IN HER ARSE!" BASH BROTHERS: WH T PULLO. BATTLE CRY: "THIRTEEN!!!" BEARD OF SORROW: AFTER NBE AND CAAR'S ATH, AS WELL AS THE SUPPOSED ATH OF HIS CHILDREN. BERSERK BUTTON: PEOPLE WHO ARE DISLOYAL, AS THE GREEK MERCENARY WHO SUGGTED BETRAYG POMPEY FOUND OUT. BREAK THE HGHTY: HIS PRCIPL CMBLE WHEN NONTED BY REAL PROBLEMS THE HIGHER UP HE GO THE SOCIAL LADR. BREAK THEM BY TALKG: DO THIS TO CLEOPATRA BY POTG OUT THE AL SHE'S MA WH OCTAVIAN TO KEEP HER CROWN AND HER SON BY CAAR SAFE IS WORTHLS AS OCTAVIAN WON'T KEEP HIS WORD.CLEOPATRA: I'VE MA A PACT WH OCTAVIAN. I KEEP MY CROWN AND NO HARM WILL E TO MY PEOPLE.VOREN: OCTAVIAN MAY LET YOU HE N PARA YOU THROUGH THE FOM YOUR CROWN. TO ANTONY'S CHILDREN, HE WILL SHOW PUBLIC MERCY AND KDNS, BUT CAARN? ANOTHER SON OF CAAR? OCTAVIAN WILL KILL HIM!CLEOPATRA: [STARTG TO PANIC] NO! HE'S JT A CHILD!VOREN: HE'LL DIE. BODYGUARD BETRAYAL: ALBE AN ACCINTAL VERSN. CAAR PROMOT VOREN TO SENATOR AND ORRS THE MAN TO STAY BY HIS SI WHILE SHOWG HIM THE ROP, UNTG ON HIS REPUTATN TO TER ANY ASSASSATN. THE NSPIRATORS HAVG FOUND OUT THE SECRET OF HIS WIFE'S FILY, REVEAL THE SECRET ON THE DAY OF CAAR'S ASSASSATN SO HE WILL SH HOME STEAD OF FOLLOWG CAAR TO THE SENATE HOE. CANNOT SP IT OUT: HIS PHILOSOPHY OF STOICISM SERV HIM WELL WAR, BUT LEAV HIM VIRTUALLY UNABLE TO SPEAK OF SOFTER THGS.VOREN (TO NBE, SCERELY BUT LAMELY): IT SADNS ME THAT YOU ARE UNHAPPY. BEE I HAVE EP AFFECTN FOR YOU. CELIBATE HERO: DEVOTED TO HIS WIFE SPE BEG SEPARATED FOR YEARS ON MPAIGN. THOUGH HE IS SEEN HAVG SEX WH A PROSTUTE LONG AFTER NBE'S ATH. COLONEL BADASS: AS A CENTUR PRIM PIL, A "FIRST SPEAR CENTURN", HIS STAT AND RPONSIBILI APPROXIMATE (THOUGH NOT PLETELY, SEE DRILL SERGEANT NASTY BELOW) ROUGHLY TO THAT OF A LITENANT COLONEL A MORN ARMY. HE'S ALSO CENTURN OF THE PRIME (OR SIMPLY 1ST) COHORT, A HORT THAT WAS DOUBLE THE SIZE OF AN ORDARY HORT, RRIED THE LEGNARY EAGLE, AND WAS MA UP OF THE CREAM OF THE LEGN; TO MAND ONE WAS NSIRED THE ZENH OF A MON SOLDIER'S REER AND RRIED A GREAT AL OF PRTIGE. COMILLY MISSG THE POT: IN A DARK ATHBED GAG, HE BSH OFF HIS CHILDREN NOT WANTG TO SEE HIM SAYG: "THEY'RE STUBBORN LIKE THEIR MOTHER." COSMIC PLAYTHG: SEE HIS CHARACTER QUOTE ABOVE. CREEPY SOUVENIR: HE RRI A GERMANIC WARRR'S PENIS AS A LUCKY CHARM. HE ALSO KEEPS ERAST FULMEN'S HEAD AFTER PATG HIM. CULTURED WARRR: HE OFTEN C EXAMPL OM ROMAN HISTORY DURG HIS HONOR BEFORE REASON RANTS, SOMETIM TALKS ABOUT OTHER CULTUR (EG. THE EGYPTIAN GODS) AS IF HE'S READ UP ABOUT THEM AND THE REASON HE WAS SENT ON THE MISSN TO FD CAAR'S STOLEN EAGLE THE FIRST PLACE WAS BEE HIS SUPERR OFFICER THOUGHT HE WAS CLEVER. HIS BADASS QUALIFITNS ARE IMPECBLE. AS HE IS ON OPERATNS SI FOREIGN UNTRI, HIS POSN AS CENTUR PRIM PIL AND LATER PREFECT WOULD MEAN LEARNG ABOUT ENEMY CULTURE AND TRADNS WAS PART OF HIS JOB. DELIBERATE VALU DISSONANCE: MANY, BUT MOST NOTABLY ONE SUATN WHERE LUCI VOREN CIS THAT THE MOST ETHIL THG TO DO IS KILL A LTLE BOY. IT'S HEARTBREAKG TO SEE HOW TORN HE IS BETWEEN "DOG THE RIGHT THG" AND KILLG HIS WIFE'S BASTARD, AND LISTENG TO HIS STCT TO NOT KILL A CHILD. DRILL SERGEANT NASTY: ONE THE PILOT, MELLOWS LATER EPISOS. AS A CENTUR PRIM PIL THE OVERALL DISCIPLE OF THE LEGN WOULD BE ONE OF HIS (MANY) RPONSIBILI. FIERY REDHEAD: ROMANS LL ATTENTN TO HIS STRAWBERRY BLOND HAIR, WHICH IS FAIRLY RARE FOR A ROMAN. HE ADMS THAT HE LOOKS GLISH, BUT SISTS THAT HE'S A PURE-BORN ROMAN. IN SPE OF HIS STIFF PERSONALY, HE'S QUE HOT-BLOOD. FIRE-FED FRIENDS: WH PULLO, AND STRANGELY ENOUGH WH MARK ANTONY BY THE END OF THE SERI. ALTHOUGH VOREN DON'T APPROVE OF ANTONY'S HEDONISTIC WAYS, HE EVENTUALLY REALIS THEY SHARE THE SAME SELF-STCTIVE URG. HEROIC BSOD: ONCE THE UNSTOPPABLE RAGE HAS WORN OFF, VOREN HAS ONE OF THE AFTER BELIEVG HIS WHOLE FAY IS AD. PULLO GETS MARC ANTONY TO LIVER A GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF, MAN! AND GIVE HIM THE JOB OF NNG ROME'S UNRWORLD. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH PULLO. HISTORIL DOMA CHARACTER: THE SURVIVG WRGS OF THE ACTUAL, HISTORIL CAAR MENTN ONE 'LUCI VOREN', CENTURN. VERY LTLE ELSE IS KNOWN OF HIM, ALTHOUGH 'S SAFE TO ASSUME HIS IMPORTANCE HAS BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED. THE REAL LUCI VOREN ACTUALLY BELONGED TO THE 11TH LEGN. HONOR BEFORE REASON: MUCH OF HIS SENSE OF HONOR IS DELIBERATE VALU DISSONANCE, HOWEVER. HOW ABOUT A SE?: ALIENAT HIS OWN FAY ON HIS RETURN AFTER EIGHT YEARS MPAIGNG BEE HE HAS NO IA WHO TO TREAT THEM. FORTUNATELY VOREN REALIS HOW HE'S BEHAVG, AND IS WILLG TO TAKE ADVICE OM PULLO ON HOW TO SWEET-TALK WOMEN. HYPOCRE: HE'S AGHAST AT THE THOUGHT OF CROSSG THE RUBIN WH CAAR, BUT PROUDLY REUNTS HOW HIS FATHER "RO WH SULLA." SULLA WAS THE GENERAL AND DICTATOR WHO LNCHED A MILARY COUP A GENERATN BEFORE EXACTLY LIKE CAAR HAD DONE, AND UNLIKE CAAR SUBJECTED ROME TO A REIGN OF TERROR. THIS IS A SUBTLE WAY OF SHOWG THAT VOREN'S NSTUTNAL NSERVATISM IS HIGHLY NTEXTUAL. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: AS MUCH OF A SCREWUP AS HE IS AS A FATHER, HE DO LOVE HIS CHILDREN, AND DO HAVE SOME OF HIS OWN PERSONAL MORALS. MR. FANSERVICE: HE'S RATHER HANDSOME (AT LEAST BY MORN STANDARDS), AND GETS A FAIR AMOUNT OF SHIRTLS SCEN - THOUGH NOT ON THE SAME LEVEL AS MARK ANTONY. MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?: AFTER DRIVG HIS WIFE TO SUICI AND CHASG HIS CHILDREN AWAY WH HATEFUL CURS, HE VELOPS A THOAND-YARD STARE. MY MASTER, RIGHT OR WRONG: BEE OF HIS SENSE OF LOYALTY. NAïVE NEWER: VOREN'S MPAIGN AS MAGISTRATE EXPOS HIM TO THE DIRTY ALGS BEHD ROME'S SUPPOSED TO BE SACRED POLIL STUTNS. NO GUY WANTS TO BE CHASED: AS A TRADNALLY MD ROMAN MALE, VOREN REF HAVE SEX WH CLEOPATRA WHEN ORRED TO DO SO. SHE TAK OFFENSE SO HE SENDS PULLO TO PLATE HER, WHO HAS NO SUCH SCPL. NOT SO ABOVE IT ALL: THOUGH RATHER THAN BE ABOVE THE SILLS HE STARTED OFF ABOVE THE RPTN. VOREN EVENTUALLY GO OM BEG A HONORABLE SOLDIER TO THE GODFATHER OF ROME'S CRIMAL UNRWORLD. HE ROLLED HIS EY FOR PULLO SLEEPG WH PROSTUT, ONCE SGLE HE MORE OR LS WILL ONLY SLEEP WH PROSTUT AND IS ANNOYED WHEN GAIA REF TO TAKE MONEY. ODD COUPLE: WH PULLO. OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN: IT'S AMAZGLY FUNNY TO PARE THAT TO THE DIRTBAGS HE SERV, WHO WOULD SCREW ANYTHG THAT MOV. O.O.C. IS SER BS: WHENEVER VOREN WANTS TO DRK 'S A BAD SIGN. ANTONY CELEBRAT HIM CHUGGG A GLASS OF WE. PAPA WOLF: WILL GO TO ANY LENGTHS TO GET HIS CHILDREN BACK SEASON 2. UNFORTUNATELY THEY NEVER FIVE HIM FOR HAVG GOT THEM TO THAT SUATN THE FIRST PLACE. WHEN A DROVER'S SON APPEARS TO HAVE IMPREGNATED VORENA THE ELR (ACTUALLY NBE'S CHILD), HE POTS OUT THAT THIS ENTL HIM TO LEGALLY SLAY THE YOUNG MAN. VORENA PLEADS WH HIM AND HE GDGGLY NCES TO THEIR MARRIAGE. THE PATRIARCH: PLAYED FOR DRAMA; UNR ROMAN LAW HE HAS ABSOLUTE THORY OVER HIS FAY. HE N LEGALLY KILL HIS WIFE FOR FILY REGARDLS OF THE CIRCUMSTANC AND HER ILLEGIMATE SON AS WELL, AND POSSIBLY EVEN HIS OWN CHILDREN FOR HAVG ASSISTED HER THIS CEPTN. PERFECTLY ARRANGED MARRIAGE: WH NBE. AFTER A ROCKY START, THEY GROW TO LOVE EACH OTHER... OR AT LEAST HE DO. PERPETUAL FROWNER: VOREN SEEMS TO OWN EVEN WHEN HE S. PET THE DOG: HIS TREATMENT OF CAARN SHOWS A SOFT SI. PROFSNAL KILLER: ERAST FULMEN HIR HIM TO BE ONE, BUT VOREN HAS TROUBLE ACCEPTG AND QUS. THIS IS THE ORIG OF THEIR NFLICT. PUNCTUATED! FOR! EMPHASIS!: DELIVERS ONE TO CLEOPATRA WHILE MAKG NO ATTEMPT TO DISGUISE HIS DISGT AT THE FACT SHE DUCED ANTONY TO M SUICI WHILE ALG WH OCTAVIAN BEHD HIS BACK.CLEOPATRA: I LET YOU LIVE BEE ANTONY WAS FOND OF YOU. DO NOT TT ME NOW!VOREN: KISS. MY. ARSE! RED ONI, BLUE ONI: HE'S STIFF AND HONORABLE TO A FLT NTRAST TO PULLO'S MORE LACKADAISIL AND IMPULSIVE PERSONALY. IN THE SEND SEASON, HOWEVER, HIS EP-SEATED RAGE TO THE FOREONT, MAKG PULLO SEEM MORE SEDATE BY PARISON. REPORTS OF MY DEATH WERE GREATLY EXAGGERATED: HE WAS PRUMED AD DURG HIS EIGHT-YEAR MPAIGN GL. RETURNG WAR VET: TO HIS SORROW, HE REALIZ VLENCE IS HIS ONLY TALENT. ROCK BOTTOM: VOREN IS DISGRACED AFTER HIS FAILURE TO PROTECT CAAR, BUT REF TO M HONORABLE SUICI AS HE BELIEV HE SERV HIS TORMENT AFTER FAILG TO PROTECT HIS FAY AS WELL. AS HAPPENS THE ATH OF ERAST FULMEN HAS THROWN THE CY TO CHAOS AS RIVAL GANGS FIGHT FOR SUPREMACY, AND VOREN IS JT THE MAN MARC ANTONY NEEDS TO FIX THE SUATN; DISGRACED, BUT STILL BOUND BY OATH TO OBEY HIM. SO HE ORRS VOREN TO TAKE FULMEN'S PLACE. SANY SLIPPAGE: IN THE SEND SEASON HE IS GRAPPLG WH THE DISSOLUTN OF ROME, AND OF HIS FAY. HE N'T PE. 10-MUTE RETIREMENT - HOW MANY TIM HAS THIS MAN FAILED TO STAY AWAY OM POLICS? UNCERTA DOOM: IT'S NEVER SHOWN IF HE SURVIV HIS WOUNDS THE SEASON 2 FALE, DUE TO THE SERI BEG NCELLED. UNDYG LOYALTY: TO HIS LEGN, TO HIS CY, TO HIS IENDS - TO THE ATH. LAMPSHAD:OCTAVIAN: THAT MAN TURNS LOYALTY TO A VICE. UNSTOPPABLE RAGE: MORE THAN ONCE. BUT THE STAND-OUT EXAMPLE IS WHEN HE SLGHTERS ERAST FULMEN'S ENTIRE GANG. WHAT THE HELL, HERO?: VOREN HAS AN UNFORTUNATE AMOUNT OF THE. LAMPSHAD BY ONE OF HIS TERACTNS WH MARK ANTONY. VOREN HIMSELF HAD THIS REACTN WHEN PULLO KILLED ONE OF HIS SLAV JT BEE SAID SLAVE WAS A RELATNSHIP WH THE GIRL PULLO LOV. WHOLE-PLOT REFERENCE: NOT EXPLICLY ALLUD TO, BUT VOREN'S CHARACTER ARC (AN UPSTANDG ROMAN SOLDIER WHO SUFFERS OM TRANSNG TO CIVILIAN LIFE—AT THE EXPENSE OF HIS FAY AND LOVED ON—EVENTUALLY TRANSNG TO SOMEONE WHO RPECTABLE ROMAN SOCIETY SPIS) OW A LOT TO ANOTHER ROMAN FIGURE OF LEGEND: GNAS MARCI CORLAN—WHO WILLIAM SHAKPEARE HIMSELF MA A PLAY OUT OF. THE KEY DIFFERENCE IS THAT WHILE CORLAN SEEMS TO HAVE WILLED HIMSELF TO MECHANIL LACK OF SYMPATHY, VOREN'S CHARACTER IS WRTEN TO BE VERY DOWN TO EARTH, WHOSE FLAWS ARE VERY REGNIZABLE. WI-EYED IALIST: SORT OF. HE STILL BELIEV THE REPUBLIC, WHILE EVERYBODY ELSE SE AS ROTTEN TO THE RE. YOU, GET ME COFFEE: THE FIRST TIME THEY ARE EGYPT, VOREN HAS TO REMD PULLO TO GO FORM WH THE OTHER SOLDIERS. THEY ARE IENDS, BUT HE STILL OUTRANKS HIM. YOU OWE ME: ANTONY MANDS LOYALTY UNTIL ATH OM VOREN RETURN FOR TAKG HIM BACK TO THE LEGNS. HE GETS , AS VOREN IS THE ONLY MAN WHO STANDS WH ANTONY UNTIL THE END.T PULLO"HERE I E, GIRLS! I'M GONNA DRK ALL THE WE, SMOKE ALL THE SMOKE, AND FUCK EVERY WHORE THE CY!"THE OTHER PROTAGONIST. PULLO IS AN IMPULSIVE, BOISTERO AND WHOLLY IRREVERENT LEGNARY THE 13TH LEGN SERVG UNR VOREN, WHOM HE BEIENDS AFTER GOG ON A MISSN WH HIM. THE TWO THEN RETURN TO VOREN' HOE ROME AS HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS. PLAYED BY RAY STEVENSON. THE ALHOLIC: DRKS HEAVILY, AT LEAST EARLY ON THE SERI. ANTI-HERO: HE'S A MURRER WH A HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER, BUT HE'S ONE OF OUR HERO. ASCEND EXTRA: THE WRGS OF GAI JULI CAAR REALLY DO MENTN ONE 'T PULLO,' MEMBER OF HIS LEGNS. ALTHOUGH THE HISTORIL PULLO WAS A CENTURN, NOT A FOOT SOLDIER. THE REAL T POLLO BELONGED TO THE 11TH LEGN. BASH BROTHERS: WH VOREN. BATTLE CRY: "THIRTEEN!!!" BEEN THERE, SHAPED HISTORY: IT'S EVEN LAMPSHAD "HOW T PULLO BROUGHT DOWN THE REPUBLIC" WHERE PULLO'S GAMBLG PROBLEM AND MURR OF A NMAN CULMATED AN ATTEMPTED REVENGE KILLG THAT KICKED OFF CAAR'S EVENTUAL RETURN TO ROME AND HIM DISSOLVG THE REPUBLIC. BERSERK BUTTON: INSULTG THE 13TH LEGN. BLOOD KNIGHT: HE LOV TO FIGHT, AND HE'S GOOD AT . HE'S FIRST DISTGUISHED TO THE DIENCE THE FIRST EPISO BY BREAKG FORMATN ONCE HE'S ROTATED TO S ONT TO CRACK MORE HEADS FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN HE WANTS TO (AND GETS PUNISHED FOR THIS). BODY HORROR: GETS A SKULL ACTURE DURG A STREET BRAWL. THE TREATMENT OF THE TIME (CENTURI BEFORE THE VENTN OF ANTHETIC) A'T PRETTY. WH PULLO PHYSILLY RTRAED AND SCREAMG, A PHYSICIAN SAWS A HOLE HIS SKULL, TWEEZERS TO REMOVE SHARDS OF BRIS OM HIS BRA, AND NAILS A METAL PLATE PLACE OVER THE HOLE. THE NAILS ARE WHAT FALLY E PULLO TO BLACK OUT PA. BOISTERO BISER: PULLO IS VERY ROWDY, VERY LOUD AND VERY ADLY. BISER WH A SOFT CENTER: HE'S LIKE A BATN OF A TEDDY BEAR AND A GRIZZLY BEAR. CATCHPHRASE: PULLO LIK BRAGGG ABOUT HIS SEXUAL NQUTS, REAL OR IMAGED, ALMOST ALWAYS SCRIBG WOMEN AS "WET AS OCTOBER!" CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: HE TOOK A LEVEL KDNS AFTER MARRYG EIRENE. CHIVALRO PERVERT: WH EIRENE. CLTER F-BOMB: "I'M T FUCKG PULLO, CUNT!" COOL UNCLE: TAK ON THIS ROLE FOR THE CHILDREN AFTER VOREN LEAV THEM HIS RE. CRAZY JEALO GUY: KILLS EIRENE'S POOR LOVER, WHO WAS VERY KD, POLE, AND RPECTFUL TO HIM. EVEN BAD MEN LOVE THEIR MAMAS: PULLO IS A BTISH SOLDIER AND AN OCSNAL MURRER-FOR-HIRE (THOUGH NOT WHOUT HIS BETTER MOMENTS), BUT HE HONORS HIS SLAVE MOTHER'S MEMORY. FIRE-FED FRIENDS: HE AND VOREN ARE IALLY ENEMI, BUT THEIR SHARED EXPERIENC QUICKLY TURN THEM TO IENDS. FOIL: MOST OF HIS CHARACTER TRAS STAND NTRAST TO VOREN. WHERE HE IS MUTABLE, VOREN IS STIFF. WHERE PULLO IS A CHARMER, VORNEN IS DOUR. WHERE PULLO IS IMPULSIVE, VOREN IS RPONSIBLE. WHILE BOTH ARE PRONE TO STCTIVE RAG, PULLO IS MORE PRONE TO SUDN VLENCE, BUT ALSO MORE LIKELY TO SHG SOMETHG OFF. THE GAMBLG ADDICT: LAMPSHAD BY VOREN SEASON TWO. GLADIATOR GAM: PULLO IS SENTENCED TO FIGHT AND DIE THE ARENA. AFTER BEG PROVOKED HE KILLS FIVE OF THE GLADIATORS STEAD A MOMENT OF AWOME. HAPPILY MARRIED: TO EIRENE. EVEN THOUGH HE KILLED THE MAN SHE LOVED A F OF RAGE. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH VOREN. HEROIC BSOD: PULLO HAS ONE TOWARDS THE END OF SEASON ONE WHEN VOREN REJECTS HIM. AND ANOTHER ONE FOLLOWG EIRENE'S ATH. HOT-BLOOD: AS AN ILL-FATED SUOR OF EIRENE DISVERS. INTERGENERATNAL FRIENDSHIP: WH OCTAVIAN. INTERPLAY OF SEX AND VLENCE: WH GAIA AS THEY E CLOSE TO A "NOT IF THEY ENJOYED IT" RATNALIZATN. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: DPE HIS EXTREMELY QUTNABLE MORALS AND VLENT NATURE, HE IS VERY LOYAL AND IS VERY GOOD WH CHILDREN. AT LEAST TO CHILDREN OF HIS IENDS. HE ALSO ACTS AS A MENTOR TO OCTAVIAN, TEACHG HIM TO BEHAVE MORE "LIKE A MAN." LOVABLE SEX MANIAC: HE HAS NO MORAL STIGMA AGAST HAVG SEX WH ANY WOMAN WHO IS WILLG. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT: TO EIRENE. MALE FRONTAL NUDY: IN SEASON TWO. MAJOR INJURY UNRREACTN: YOU DONE WH FLOGGG ME? I WAS JT BEGNG TO ENJOY ... MURR THE HYPOTENE: HE IS ONLY ABLE TO MARRY EIRENE AFTER HE KILLS HER BETROTHED. BUT SHE ONLY BEGS TO E AROUND AFTER SEEG THAT HE REGRETS . NAY-THEIST: FOR MOST OF SEASON 1, PULLO IS MORE OFTEN THAN NOT NTEMPTUO OF THE GODS AND THE MORAL STANDARDS THEY SUPPOSEDLY REPRENT (NOT HELPED THAT HE IS SURROUND BY PEOPLE WHO ARE VETERATE HYPOCR ABOUT — EXCEPT MAYBE VOREN). COME SEASON 2, HIS GROWG MORAL PASS AND HIS WNSG OF VOREN'S FALL TO THE DPAIR EVENT HORIZON BEGS TO STIR SOMETHG HIM. NOMAL HERO: AN AFFABLE IEND AND ALLY WHO'D DO ANYTHG FOR THOSE HE R ABOUT. HE'S ALSO PABLE OF GROTQUE VLENCE AND MURR WHOUT A SEND THOUGHT OR A TWGE OF NSCIENCE. LAMPSHAD WHEN VOREN IS ASKED TO SUM UP HIS CHARACTER.CLEOPATRA: IS HE A GOOD MAN?VOREN: DEFE "GOOD." ODD COUPLE: HE AND VOREN ARE A STUDY OPPOS, BUT FORM AN UNBREAKABLE IENDSHIP. PROFSNAL KILLER: BE ONE WHEN VOREN THROWS HIM OUT OF HIS HOME. IT'S A FALLEN-ON-HARD-TIM JOB. RED ONI, BLUE ONI: IS THE RED TO LUCI'S BLUE. HE IS MORE IMPULSIVE, BUT ALSO MORE FLEXIBLE. IN THE FIRST SEASON, HE A LOT OF TROUBLE, BUT THE SEND SEASON, VOREN'S RIGIDY TO THE FOREONT. SCREW THE MONEY, I HAVE RUL!: CICERO ATTEMPTS TO BUY PULLO WHEN HE IS SENT TO ASSASSATE HIM, BUT PULLO CL THE OFFER AND DO THE JOB, EVEN THOUGH HE ADMIR THE MAN AND DON'T HI .CICERO: I HAVE A GREAT AL OF MONEY. I DON'T SUPPOSE...PULLO: SORRY. NORMALLY I'D BE TEMPTED, BUT YOU'RE FAR TOO IMPORTANT. IMAGE THE FS! I GET BACK AND I HAVEN'T DONE MY JOB! TORTURE TECHNICIAN: SUBVERTED. OCTAVIAN ASSUM PULLO'S VLENT NATURE AND YEARS THE ARMY HAVE GIVEN HIM PARTICULAR SKILL, OR AT LEAST GENERAL KNOWLEDGE, OF HOW TO TORTURE A MAN TO ATH. HE HASN'T, AS THE 13TH HAS S OWN DITED TORTURER, SO OCTAVIAN JT HAS PULLO CUT OFF THE MAN'S FGERS UNTIL HE STARTS TALKG. UNDYG LOYALTY: TO VOREN. THERE'S REALLY NOTHG PULLO WOULDN'T DO FOR HIM. HIS WIFE EVEN LAMPSHAS , PLAG THAT HE LOV VOREN MORE THAN HE LOV HER. UNSTOPPABLE RAGE: ONCE YOU GET HIM ANGRY YOU WILL REGRET . UNWTG INSTIGATOR OF DOOM: PULLO'S GAMBLG RELATED TROUBL AND ANTAGONISMS LEAD TO A BRAWL ONT OF THE SENATE WHICH BEGS TO TOPPLE THE REPUBLIC WHEN BE A POLIL CINT. LATER, HE GETS CLEOPATRA PREGNANT AND THAT SETS THE STAGE FOR HER DOWNFALL. WHAT DID I DO LAST NIGHT?: GETS DNK AND DON'T REMEMBER THAT HE LEFT EIRENE A TAVERN UNTIL VOREN ASKS WHERE SHE IS. AFTER SOME SEARCHG THEY FD THE RRECT TAVERN AND FD HER BEG HELD AS LLATERAL FOR AN UNPAID BAR TAB.NBE OF THE VORENI"I DON'T WANT PEOPLE DYG MY HOE!"VOREN' WIFE THROUGH AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE AND MOTHER OF TWO DGHTERS, BOTH NAMED VORENA. AT THE START OF THE SERI SHE HAS BEEN CHARGE OF THE VORENI HOEHOLD FOR EIGHT YEARS WHILE HER HBAND WAS AT WAR GL. SHE ALSO HAS A SON OM HER BROTHER -LAW WHO SHE TRI TO PASS OFF AS HER ELST DGHTER'S WHEN VOREN RETURNS HOME. PLAYED BY INDIRA VARMA. ALOOF BIG SISTER: TO LY. ARRANGED MARRIAGE: HOW HAPPY IS BATABLE. CASSANDRA TTH: SHE FEARS THAT THEIR RAPID SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT WILL LEAD TO THE FAT PUNISHG THEIR FAY. SHE'S RIGHT. DUE TO THE DEAD: HER CHILDREN AND SISTER BATHE AND DRS HER RPSE, SPE THE FEAR THAT VOREN WILL RETURN AND KILL THEM ALSO. A REMORSEFUL VOREN DO RETURN AND GIV HER A PROPER BURIAL. DRIVEN TO SUICI: AFTER VOREN DISVERS HER SECRET THE FIRST SEASON FALE. THE GLOR WAR OF SISTERLY RIVALRY: SHE'S UALLY AT ODDS WH HER SISTER, NOT LEAST DUE TO HAVG HAD AN AFFAIR WH HER BROTHER--LAW. GEO PERD DRS: EVEN MAK THEM HERSELF. HOEWIFE: NOT ONLY BEE OF HER HBAND'S TRADNAL ROMAN VALU, BUT BEE SHE HAD TO DO SO WHILE HE WAS AWAY MPAIGNG GL. I CHOOSE TO STAY: WHEN ERAST AND HIS GANG ARE G TO KILL THEM, SHE SENDS HER CHILDREN AWAY TO THE UNTRY BUT CHOOS TO STAY AND SHARE HER HBAND'S FATE. IRONY: GUS WHO END GOG AGAST THAT QUOTE? NOUVE RICHE: DOWNPLAYED; HER IENDS THK SHE'S PUTTG ON AIRS WHILE NBE FDS HERSELF BEG PATRONIZED BY THE LIK OF ATIA. SHE FEARS THEY ARE ADVANCG TOO FAR TOO FAST AND WILL ALL E CRASHG DOWN. TEEN PREGNANCY: NBE WAS ONLY 13 WHEN SHE MARRIED AND HAD CHILDREN. THIS WAS THE NORM ROMAN TIM.EIRENE"I'M PLEGANT! WHATEVER YOU LL !"A GERMANIC SLAVE THAT VOREN AND PULLO RCUE OM A BAND OF POMPEIAN SOLDIERS EARLY SEASON 1. PULLO IS STANTLY FATUATED WH HER, AND AFTER A WHILE HE HAS HER EED AND MARRI HER. PLAYED BY CHIARA MASTALLI. BETIFUL SLAVE GIRL: SHE'S QUE LOVELY, AND T PULLO IS IMMEDIATELY FATUATED WH HER. HOWEVER UNLIKE WHAT IS UAL FOR THIS TROPE SHE IS NOT A MS. FANSERVICE. BETTY: TO GAIA'S VERONI. CUTE MUTE: SHE SEEMS MUTE AT FIRST, BUT THIS IS REALLY JT A BATN OF BEG THE QUIET ONE AND HER LIMED KNOWLEDGE OF LAT. DAMSEL DISTRS: HOW SHE IS TRODUCED. POMPEY'S MEN PTURE HER FOR THEIR OWN E, AND PULLO E HER. DEATH BY CHILDBIRTH: DI AS A RULT OF BLOOD LOSS WHEN SHE MISRRI. INVOKED BY GAIA SECRETLY GIVG HER SILPHIUM, A (NOW EXTCT) PLANT ED TO DUCE ABORTN BACK ANCIENT TIM. EVIL TATED THE PLACE: WHEN PULLO IS TRYG TO SUPPORT VOREN THROUGH HIS HEROIC BSOD AFTER HIS FAY'S ATH, EIRENE WANTS TO LEAVE AS IF THEY MAKE A CHILD THERE WILL GROW UP TO BE A MONSTER. VOREN KEEPG A SEVERED AND ROTTG HEAD AS A CREEPY SOUVENIR DO NOT HELP THGS. KILL THE CUTIE: COURTY OF GAIA. LONGT PREGNANCY EVER: BEE OF HBO'S CISN TO NCEL THE SHOW THE SEND SEASON, THE WRG TEAM HAD TO PACT THE STORY L PLANNED FOR THE SEND, THIRD AND FOURTH SEASONS TO ONE ORR TO GIVE THE STORY SOME CLOSURE. THIS LED TO EIRENE REMAG PREGNANT DURG HISTORIL EVENTS THAT HAPPENED OVER THE SPAN OF TWO WHOLE YEARS. A MATCH MA STOCKHOLM: TO MORN EY HER AGREEG TO MARRY THE MAN WHO MURRED HER PREV FIANCE. HOWEVER OM HER POT-OF-VIEW THERE ARE GOOD REASONS FOR THIS — PULLO IS GENUELY REMORSEFUL AND SMTEN WH HER, AND FOR ALL HIS FLTS IS A POWERFUL PROTECTOR, ALLIED TO ANOTHER MAN WHO IS GOG UP THE WORLD. ONLY KNOWN BY THEIR NICKNAME: IT'S NOT UNTIL THE VERY LAST EPISO SHE IS THAT HER REAL NAME IS REVEALED - ALA. IN REAL LIFE, THE ROMANS ED TO GIVE THE SLAV NEW NAM BASED ON THEIR PERCEIVED QUALI. EIRENE PARTICULAR IS GREEK FOR "PEACE". THE RIVAL: TO GAIA. UNEQUAL PAIRG: PULLO PLETELY MISUNRSTANDS THEIR RELATNSHIP AT FIRST. IT'S NOT A RCUE ROMANCE — EIRENE IS GRATEFUL BUT ONLY SLEEPS WH PULLO BEE HE'S THE IEND OF HER MASTER AND SHE THKS SHE DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER CHOICE. SHE'S ACTUALLY LOVE WH ANOTHER SLAVE. PULLO BUYS HER EEDOM AND ONLY THEN FDS OUT SHE'S TENDG TO MARRY THIS MAN, WHOM HE THEN BEATS TO ATH A JEALO RAGE. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ACCENT?: HER GERMANIC ORIGS ARE NOT REVEALED UNTIL THE LAST EPISO SHE'S . WIDOWED AT THE WEDDG: PLAYED WH; ON THE DAY PULLO PROPOS TO HER, 'S VOREN WHO IS WIDOWED. YOU NO TAKE CANDLE: LEARNS TO SPEAK LAT BUT NOT PERFECTLY.THE VORENI CHILDRENVORENA THE ELR, VORENA THE YOUNGER AND LUCI. ALL OF THEM NAMED AFTER LUCI VOREN. BRATTY TEENAGE DGHTER: VORENA THE ELR, THOUGH SHE HAS BETTER REASONS THAN MOST FOR THIS TROPE. DECEASED PARENTS ARE THE BT: DUE TO THEIR POOR RELATNSHIP WH THEIR FATHER, THEY (PECIALLY VORENA THE ELR) TEND TO TURN A BLD EYE TO THE NUMERO WRONGS OF THEIR MOTHER NBE — NAMELY, THAT SHE CHEATED ON HER HBAND WH HER SISTER'S SPOE AND ME UP WH A LIE TO VER THE INTY OF THE CHILD SHE NCEIVED OM HER FILY, CLAIMG LTLE LUCI TO BE VORENA'S CHILD, WHICH KICKED OFF ALL THEIR FAY DRAMA THE FIRST PLACE. VORENA NEVER PLAS THAT HER MOTHER SACRIFICED HER HONOR TO SAVE HER OWN, POSSIBLY BEE WAS NBE WHO RAISED THEM WHILE VOREN WAS OFF TO WAR. THEY ARE ALSO PLETELY UNWILLG TO ACCEPT THAT VOREN DIDN'T KILL NBE. DEFILED FOREVER: VOREN REF TO FD A HBAND FOR ELR VORENA, AS HE BELIEV THAT ANYONE WHO WOULD ACCEPT A FORMER PROSTUTE WOULD NOT BE WORTHY OF HER. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: NBE'S ATH, FOLLOWED ALMOST IMMEDIATELY BY ERAST FULMEN TAKG AND SELLG THEM AS SLAV. EASILY FIVEN: THE CHILDREN WERE ENRAGED AT VOREN' FOR THE ATH OF THEIR MOTHER, AND WHEN HE SHOWS UP DYG THEY STILL DON'T WANT TO SEE HIM. BUT VORENA THE ELR EVENTUALLY RELENTS AND WEEPS AS SHE SE HIM ON HIS ATHBED. THE YOUNGER TWO ARE SEEN LOOKG SAD THE BACKGROUND. FAY THEME NAMG: AS WAS CTOM AT THE TIME BOTH OF VOREN' DGHTERS WERE NAMED FOR HIM (VORENA THE ELR AND VORENA THE YOUNGER). BABY LUCI HAS HIS GRANDFATHER'S (ACTUALLY STEPFATHER'S) FIRST NAME AND PRUMABLY GNOMEN AS WELL. HOT-BLOOD: YOUNG LUCI IS ALWAYS EAGER FOR A FIGHT. LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: WHEN ELR VORENA REF TO FIVE HER FATHER, SHE TELLS PULLO THAT WAS HER FATHER WHO TGHT HER TO BE SO HARD AND UNPROMISG. PULLO N ONLY AGREE. MA A SLAVE: BY ERAST FULMEN. THE MOLE: ELR VORENA BE ONE FOR MEMM TO SPE HER FATHER. NOT ALLOWED TO GROW UP: BEE OF HBO'S SCREWG THE SEND SEASON. OTHERWISE THE YOUNGER VORENI WOULD HAVE BEEN REST AT LEAST ONCE PER SEASON TO ACUNT FOR THE TIME PASSED. ONE-STEVE LIM: THE VORENAS. THIS WAS VERY MON BACK ANCIENT ROME, WOMEN'S NAME WOULD BE THE FEME VERSN OF THEIR FATHER'S. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: THEY HATE THEIR FATHER FOR KILLG THEIR MOTHER (EVEN THOUGH TECHNILLY WAS HER OWN FLT THAT SHE DIED) AND G THEIR DOWNFALL, SO LOOK TO PULLO AS A FAY PATRIARCH THEY N LIKE AND RPECT. WHEN VOREN RETURNS HOME UNEXPECTEDLY AFTER EVERYONE ASSUMED HE WAS AD, VORENA THE ELR HAS TO PRETEND THAT NBE'S CHILD IS HERS. FORTUNATELY THERE'S A YOUNG MAN EAGER TO MARRY HER WHO IS WILLG TO TAKE THE RISK THAT VOREN WILL LEGALLY KILL HIM FOR HAVG FILED HIS DGHTER OUT OF WEDLOCK. THE QUIET ON: ONLY VORENA THE ELR, PLAYED BY BRISH ACTRS CORAL AMIGA, HAD REAL L. THE YOUNGER CHILDREN WERE PLAYED BY ITALIAN ACTORS THAT DIDN'T KNOW ENGLISH. SEX SLAVE: VORENA THE ELR SEASON 2. STEPFORD SER: SHE PRETENDS TO LOVE HER FATHER, BUT EVENTUALLY THE FA CRACKS. TAKG THE VEIL: VORENA THE ELR TOWARDS THE END OF THE SERI, JOG HER NT LY THE TEMPLE. THIS IS UNFIVABLE!: NONE OF THEM FIVE VOREN FOR KILLG THEIR MOTHER, THOUGH 'S IMPLIED THEY RENCILE AT THE END.LY"YOUR HBAND IS A DAMN FOOL! YOU HEAR ME?! HE IS A FOOL!"NBE'S YOUNGER SISTER AND BARREN WIFE TO GREEK FISHMONGER EVANR. PLAYED BY ESTHER HALL. ANNOYG YOUNGER SIBLG: TO NBE. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: FIRST IS EVANR'S ATH, AND THEN SHE AND HER NEPHEW AND NIEC ARE MA SLAV. EASILY FIVEN: LY IMMEDIATELY IS AT VOREN ATHBED AND IS WEEPG. THE GLOR WAR OF SISTERLY RIVALRY: IS (QUE REASONABLY) UPSET WH NBE. TO HER CRED, THEY EVENTUALLY RENCILE, AS SHE TIR OF THEIR NFLICT. IN VO VERAS: SEEG HER HBAND PLAYG WH THE CHILD, SHE GETS JEALO AND THEN DNK, THREATENG TO TELL VOREN THE TTH. WHILE EVANR IS TRYG TO FORCE HER TO LEAVE, THEIR STGGLE BREAKS A HOEHOLD IDOL, A SIGN OF BAD LUCK. LAW OF INVERSE FERTILY: SHE N'T NCEIVE. HER SISTER HAS AN AFFAIR WH HER HBAND AND ENDS UP PREGNANT, GIVG BIRTH TO A SON NONE THE LS. MA A SLAVE: BY ERAST FULMEN. SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: SHE'S THE ONLY ONE OF VOREN' FAY WHO HAS SOME SYMPATHY FOR HIM AND EVEN FENDS HIM ONT OF HIS ANGRY CHILDREN, BEE SHE HAS BEEN WRONGED BY NBE AS MUCH AS VOREN. TAKG THE VEIL: HER WAY OF PG WH THE TRAGEDI SHE'S SUFFERED.EVANR PULCHLY'S HBAND, A GREEK FISH ALER. PULLO AND OCTAVIAN KILL HIM SECRETLY TO PROTECT THE VORENI HONOR.PLAYED BY ENZO CILENTI. COLD-BLOOD TORTURE: HE'S TORTURED FOR A LONG TIME BEFORE HE DI, STARTG WH HIS THUMBS BEG CUT OFF. GET IT OVER WH: FACED WH TORTURE HE IMMEDIATELY NFS TO SLEEPG WH NBE AND TELLS THEM TO GO AHEAD AND KILL HIM. PULLO IS ENTIRELY WILLG TO DO SO, BUT OCTAVIAN REALIS PULCH IS ONLY SAYG THIS TO AVOID REVEALG SOMETHG ELSE UNR TORTURE. EVENTUALLY HE BREAKS AND PLEADS WH THEM TO PUT HIM OUT OF HIS MISERY. INACTN DISTRACTN: HE NFS TO HIS AFFAIR WH NBE TO PROTECT HIS SON. UNFORTUNATELY OCTAVIAN ISN'T FOOLED AND SISTS THAT PULLO KEEP TORTURG HIM UNTIL HE BREAKS. NEVER FOUND THE BODY: BEE THEY THREW HIS BODY THE SEWER. PREPARE TO DIE: OCTAVIAN ADVIS HIM, UNEMOTNALLY, THAT HIS CHOIC ARE IMMEDIATE ATH OR SLOW, AGONIZG ATH. THIS IS UNFIVABLE!: BY ROMAN STANDARDS, HIS CRIME IS NOT ONLY SLEEPG WH ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE (WHICH WOULD EXPOSE VOREN TO RIDICULE) BUT GETTG HER PREGNANT WH HIS OWN CHILD. WHEN HE FALLY ADMS THIS, AN OUTRAGED PULLO MURRS HIM ON THE SPOT, WHICH WOULD ACTUALLY BE A MERCY BY THAT STAGE.    JULII HOEHOLD GAI JULI CAAR"OUR MEN MT W OR DIE. POMPEY'S MEN HAVE... OTHER OPTNS."THE FAMO ROMAN GENERAL AND STATEMAN TURNED DICTATOR. PLAYED BY CIARáN HDS. ACCINTAL HERO: HE SAVED VOREN' FAY OM BEG MURRED BY ERAST FULMEN AND HIS GOONS BY VIRTUE OF HIS TIMELY ARRIVAL WH AN ARMED RT, IMMEDIATELY SRG THE CRIMALS OFF. THE ACE: ROME'S FT GENERAL AND S NSUMMATE POLICIAN; NONE OF HIS NTEMPORARI OR SUCCSORS N MATCH HIM BOTH. WHILE OCTAVIAN IS A MORE THLS STATMAN, HE LACKS ANY KD OF ARY SKILL. WHILE ANTONY IS SOLDIER'S SOLDIER LOVED BY HIS LEGNS, HE IS CRASS, A TERRIBLE STATMEN AND HATED BY THE ROMAN POLIL ELE. AFFABLY EVIL: HIS MANIPULATIVE AND THLS MOMENTS ARE VERY EASY TO OVERLOOK THANKS TO HIS MAGIC AND SOFT-SPOKEN CHARISMA. ANTAGONIST MOURNG: CAAR IS VISIBLY DISTURBED WHEN PRENTED WH POMPEY'S HEAD, FOR NUMERO REASONS. NOT ONLY WAS POMPEY AN OLD, PERSONAL IEND OF CAAR, AND NOT ONLY DID HIS EXECUTN BY THE EGYPTIANS DISPT CAAR'S PLANS TO PUBLICLY FIVE HIS RIVAL, BUT THE ACT ALSO NSTUTED AN ACT OF WAR, AS POMPEY WAS STILL A HEAD OF STATE FOR THE ROMAN REPUBLIC. CAAR: HE WAS A NSUL OF ROME! ASSKICKG LEADS TO LEARSHIP: ONE OF THE REASONS WHY HE ROSE TO SUCH POWER. AT THE START OF THE SERI, HE'S JT FISHG THE NQUT OF GL, A FEAT FOR THE ANNALS OF HISTORY. HIS ALREADY NSIRABLE POWER AS PRONSUL AND SURVIVG TRIUMVIR BED WH HIS RENOWNED ARY GENI ALLOWS HIM TO BEE MASTER OF ROME NO TIME. HIS VICTORY OVER FORMER FELLOW TRIUMVIR POMPEY THE CIVIL WAR LEADS TO CAAR BEG CLARED DICTATOR FOR LIFE, PRACTICE A PROTO-EMPEROR AND KG ALL BUT NAME. BADASS CAPE: AS PER THE UNIFORM OF A ROMAN GENERAL. BENEVOLENT BOSS: HE TREATS POS LIKE A BELOVED BROTHER, REWARDS HIS SOLDIERS' LOYALTY, AND IS QUICK TO FIVE HIS OPPONENTS WHO SURRENR. BLOOD ON THE DEBATE FLOOR: HIS FAMO ATH. CHSMASTER: SUBVERTED; HIS PRAGMATIC VILLAY AND EMPATHY E HIM TO SPARE THE LIV OF HIS EVENTUAL ASSASSS. THOSE WHO FOLLOW HIS FOOTSTEPS DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE. THE CHOSEN ONE: HE GAS THIS STAT BY BRIBG THE CORPT CHURCH. COLD HAM: CAAR'S SOLEMNY IS UNMATCHED ROME. HIS EVERY SENTENCE REMBL A LECTURE, LIVERG PSED WISDOM WHOUT BEG SMUG, MOST OF THE TIME. CULTURE CLASH: THE EGYPTIANS PRENT HIM WH THE HEAD OF POMPEY, THKG THEY ARE GOG TO GA HIS FAVOR BY LIVERG THE HEAD OF HIS ENEMY. CAAR IS STEAD ENRAGED AT BEG PRENTED WH THE HEAD OF AN ELR STATMAN. DARK SECRET: CAAR HAS EPILEPSY AND IS TERRIFIED THAT ANYONE MIGHT FD ABOUT . THIS IS BEE ACRDG TO ROMAN TRADN EPILEPSY WAS A RULT OF HAVG BEEN CURSED BY THE GODS, AND THE PEOPLE WOULD REFE TO BEG LED BY A MAN SUBJECT TO . DIDN'T SEE THAT COMG: HIS LCULATED LENIENCY TOWARDS HIS POLIL ENEMI FAMOLY BE CAAR'S UNDOG WHEN A PLETHORA OF HIS REMAG ANTAGONISTS SUCCSFULLY NSPIRE TO ASSASSATE HIM. EASILY FIVEN: CAAR N BE THLS BUT MANAG TO F THIS TROPE FAIRLY WELL. HE SPAR VOREN AND PULLO SEVERAL TIM AND HIS RPONSE TO BT AND CICERO TRYG TO SURRENR IS TO HUG THEM, APOLOGISE TO BT WHILE KISSG HIS CHEEK, BEG THEM TO TELL HIM THAT POMPEY, AN EVEN BIGGER ENEMY, IS STILL ALIVE, AND THEN, DRAG THEM OFF TO HAVE FOOD SCE MT HAVE BEEN AWHILE SCE THEY HAD A CENT MEAL. MORE THAN ONE CHARACTER POTS OUT THAT FIVG PEOPLE IS CAAR'S SHTICK, DOG DOUBLE DUTY AS A WAY TO BE SEEN AS A REASONABLE AUTHORY FIGURE AND TO MAKE PEOPLE BEHOLN TO HIM. ACRDG TO THE DVD COMMENTARY THIS WAS ALSO A WAY OF HUIATG HIS ENEMI, GIVEN ROMAN VALU (IF HE'D CLAPPED BT AND CICERO CHAS, WOULD HAVE SHOWN THEM AS WORTHY OPPONENTS). ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: HE PRIVATELY MOURNS THE ATH OF HIS DGHTER, THEN SAYS "POMPEY WILL NEED A NEW WIFE". IT SHOWS HIS POLIL MDNS AND TENNCY TO E PEOPLE AS PAWNS. ET TU, BTE?: MIGHT NOT HAVE SAID THE WORDS, BUT HIS EY TOLD ANYWAY. FATAL FLAW: PRI. IT'S ONLY HUBRIS IF I FAIL. HORRIBLE JUDGE OF CHARACTER: HE UNRTIMAT BT AND NEVER FULLY GRASPED THE SHEER EXTENT OF SERVILIA'S HATRED FOR HIM. FATHER TO HIS MEN: TTH TELEVISN. CAAR TOOK GREAT RE OF HIS SOLDIERS AND KNEW MANY OF THEM BY NAME. THEY FOLLOWED HIM OUT OF LOVE, NOT DUTY. FOUR-STAR BADASS: ONE OF HISTORY'S MOST FAMO ARY MANRS FACT. LARGE HAM: JT OCSNALLY, VOKED AS A PART OF HIS PROJECTED PUBLIC PERSONA, BEG OVERLY THEATRIL HIS ENARMENT TOWARDS BT AND CICERO AND HIS SPEECH. THERE'S ALSO HIS DRSG DOWN OF VOREN AND PULLO, WHICH ADMTEDLY WAS A GREY AREA (SPE HAVG CLED TO PTURE POMPEY, THEY DID JT PROVE THEMSELV LOYAL AND DIFFICULT TO KILL):(DISCSG POMPEY) HOI POLLOI N UNRSTAND A REASON LIKE THAT. HE REF TO MEET ME FACE TO FACE, MAN TO MAN. [ MOCK ANGER] HE REF TO MEET ME!(AFTER VOREN ADMS HE LET POMPEY GO SPE REMAG A MAJOR THREAT) AND WHO BY THE SONS OF DIS GIV YOU THE RIGHT TO MAKE SUCH JUDGMENT?! LIKE A SON TO ME: OCTAVIAN, HIS GREAT-NEPHEW WHO HE POSTHUMOLY ADOPTS. BT AS WELL. THE MAN BEHD THE MAN: WHEN PULLO IS PTURED AFTER RRYG OUT A NTRACT KILLG FOR ERAST FULMEN, CAAR IS SPECTED OF BEG BEHD BEE THE MAN WAS A VOL OPPONENT OF CAAR AND PULLO WAS A FORMER MEMBER OF HIS LEGN. IT'S EVENTUALLY REVEALED THAT CAAR DID FACT PAY ERAST FOR THE H. MANLY TEARS: HE CRI WHILE NDUCTG POMPEY'S FUNERAL. MIGHT MAK RIGHT: HE'S PERFECTLY AWARE HE'S STAGG A ARY UP THAT NEEDS TO BE DRSED UP AS SOMETHG LEG, SO HE THE ASSLT ON TRIBUNE ANTONY AS A PRETEXT FOR WAR. NECSARY EVIL:POS: THE ROMAN PEOPLE ARE NOT CRYG OUT FOR CLEAN ELECTNS. THEY ARE CRYG OUT FOR JOBS. THEY ARE CRYG OUT FOR CLEAN WATER, FOR FOOD, FOR STABILY AND PEACE. NICE TO THE WAER: HE'S IENDLY TO HIS SLAVE SERVANTS. NOT SO STOIC: CAAR OFTEN APPEARS WARM AND GENIAL BUT EVEN THAT IS JT PART OF HIS IMAGE. HE FALLY LOS HIS OL WHEN VOREN RMS HIM HE REFED TO PTURE POMPEY. PHOTO OP WH THE DOG: HE'S BELOVED BY THE PEOPLE OF ROME. PHYSIL GOD: HE BEGS TO SEE HIMSELF AS THIS, TO ANTONY'S DISFORT. THE PLAN: TO LE THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AS THE MOST POPULAR AND POWERFUL DICTATOR TO DATE. PERSONA NON GRATA: HE'S CLARED A PUBLIC ENEMY BY THE SENATE, PROVOKG A CIVIL WAR. REASONABLE AUTHORY FIGURE: ACTS LIKE ONE WHEN THE SUATN LLS FOR . ROG SPEECH: JULI CAAR HAS TO TAKE HIS LEGN TO ITALY ILLEGALLY. HE A MASTERFUL LE THE SAND SPEECH TO MAKE THEM FOLLOW HIM UNANIMOLY. SELF-FULFILLG PROPHECY. CAAR APPOTS BT ERNOR OF MACEDONIA, AS BT "IS EVERY WALL WH A KNIVE AT CAAR'S THROAT". IT DON'T S WELL WH BT, AND THE RT IS HISTORY.BT: ONLY TYRANTS NEED TO WORRY ABOUT TYRANT KILLERS! SLEAZY POLICIAN: NOTHG TOO BAD, BARELY PAR FOR THE URSE. CAAR LIBERALLY BRIB, SPS THE TTH AND MANIPULAT PEOPLE ON HIS WAY TO THE TOP. HE'S NOT ABOVE THE OCSNAL MURR BY NTRACT OF HIS POLIL OPPONENTS EHER. SHUT UP, HANNIBAL!: HE LIVERS A SUCCSN OF THIS "CAARN," TO PTOLEMY XIII'S URT WHEN THEY TRY TO WEASEL OUT OF THEIR BTS TO ROME: POS: IT'S LAW. POTH: ROMAN LAW. CAAR: IS THERE SOME OTHER FORM OF LAW, YOU WRETCHED WOMAN? POTH: ONE THOAND APOLOGI. FIVENS. PTOLEMY XIII: (RIS UP AND THROWS THE MISSIVE BACK AT CAAR'S FEET) THERE! THAT'S YOUR PAYMENT! THEODOT: SORRY... CAAR: HIS MAJTY FETS HE IS A VASSAL TO ROME. PTOLEMY XIII: (OFFEND) VASSAL? VASSAL? I AM NO VASSAL! I AM KG! I... CAAR: SIT. DOWN. (HE DO) TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME: A TALL, TANNED ROMAN GENERAL WHO'S A PHYSILLY CHARMG GUY. TYRANT TAK THE HELM: PLAYED WH. CAAR BEG DICTATOR FOR LIFE IS A NIGHTMARE FOR HARDLE REPUBLINS AND IS THE REASON FOR HIS ASSASSATN, BUT THE EDICT IS GREETED WH DIFFERENCE BY ORDARY CIZENS AND THE SHOW SELF DON'T PAT CAAR A BAD, SPOTIC LIGHT. THE DISCSN WHETHER HE WAS A TYRANT OR NOT BE A CCIAL POT THE AFTERMATH OF HIS MISE. UTOPIA JTIFI THE MEANS: HOW HIS ACTNS ARE JTIFIED.GAI OCTAVIAN"IT'S NOT THE KILLG. IT IS THE WAVG ABOUT OF SWORDS I FD TED. I DARE SAY I N KILL PEOPLE READILY ENOUGH, AS LONG AS THEY'RE NOT FIGHTG BACK."ONE OF THE MA PROTAGONISTS. A BRILLIANT YET ANTISOCIAL YOUNG MAN WHO THROUGH YEARS OF MANIPULATN, BE ROME'S FIRST EMPEROR.PLAYED BY MAX PIRKIS HIS TEENAGE YEARS AND BY SIMON WOODS AS A YOUNG ADULT. 0% APPROVAL RATG: FDS HIMSELF THIS POSN WHEN MARC ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA CUTS OFF THE GRA SHIPMENTS. PEOPLE BLAME OCTAVIAN BEE THEY N'T BELIEVE THEIR POPULAR WAR HERO ANTONY WOULD TURN AGAST THEM. IT TAK ALL HIS POLIL SAVVY TO TURN THE POPULACE AGAST ANTONY. BREAK THE CUTIE: IT HAPPENS, BUT HE BE MUCH STRONGER (AND MORE THLS) AS A RULT. BROTHER–SISTER INCT: WH OCTAVIA. BTAL HONTY: ONE OF HIS TRAMARKS. THE CHSMASTER: ANOTHER OF HIS TRAMARKS. HE IS BETTER AT THAN HIS FAMO UNCLE, PECIALLY BEE HE NEVER LETS HIS EMPATHY TO GET THE WAY OF HIS PLANS. DEADPAN SNARKER: FREQUENTLY ENGAG THIS, GIVG HIM SOME OF THE BT ONE-LERS ON THE SHOW. EVEN BAD MEN LOVE THEIR MAMAS: SUBVERTED WHEN HE BE AN ADULT THE SEND SEASON, AND REGARDS ATIA WH NTEMPT. BUT AFTER EVERYTHG SHE'S DONE TO HIM, 'S PLETELY UNRSTANDABLE. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: WHILE HE IS PERFECTLY WILLG TO KILL NOCENT PEOPLE, HE DO HATE ADULTERY AS A PLORABLE VICE. MALY BEE OF HIS MOTHER’S BEHAVR. EVEN AFTER WRG THE PROSCRIPTN LISTS TO MURR OFF SR OF POSSIBLE POLIL OPPONENTS AND WEALTHY ROMANS, HE UTTERLY REF TO PERM THE MURR OF WOMEN, STATG AS MUCH WHEN HE BELIEVED HIS MOTHER WANTED HIM TO ADD SERVILLA TO THE LISTS. HE'S ALSO FIERCELY LOYAL TO HIS IENDS, PROBABLY BEE HE DON'T MAKE IENDS EASILY. FX AFFABLY EVIL: HE OFF AS POLE AND WELL-MANNERED, BUT THE CHARA EASILY SLIPS TO SHOW HE IS THLS, VIC, AND POWER-HUNGRY.OCTAVIAN: I WAS ALL SWEETNS AND LIGHT WH HER. CHARM SELF.MAECENAS: Y. THAT IS YOUR MOST DISHEARTENG MANNER. FROM NOBODY TO NIGHTMARE: AT THE BEGNG OF THE SHOW HE IS NOT TECHNILLY A "NOBODY", AS HE IS A MEMBER OF THE POWERFUL ROMAN ARISTOCRACY. STILL, HE IS ONLY THE YOUNGT MEMBER OF ONE OF THE FAI THAT ARE VYG FOR POWER THE LAST DAYS OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC. AT THE END HE HAS OUTWTED, OUTMANVERED OR MURRED ALL HIS OPPONENTS AND HAS BEE THE UNDISPUTED LER OF ROME. HIS TRIUMPHANT SE DURG THE FAL CELEBRATNS OF HIS VICTORI IS CHILLG. THIS LAMPSHAD BY A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HIS SISTER AND HIS RIGHT-HAND MAN.AGRIPPA: HE'S A POWERFUL MAN.OCTAVIA: SO EVERYONE SAYS, I NNOT BELIEVE — MY LTLE BROTHER.AGRIPPA: YOUR LTLE BROTHER HAS AN ARMY TEN THOAND STRONG. HAPPILY ARRANGED MARRIAGE: OCTAVIAN AND LIVIA SEEM TO F THIS TROPE, IF A VERY TWISTED VERSN OF . HISTORIL BETY UPDATE: WHILE ROMAN HISTORIANS SAID HE WAS HANDSOME, THE REAL AUGT WAS SHORT, SWARTHY, AND TH, HAD A FEW ROTTG TEETH, AND HAD A UNIBROW, ACRDG TO SUETONI.'SUETONI: THE TWELVE CAARS: "[AUGT'S] TEETH WERE SMALL, FEW, AND YED; HIS HAIR, LIGHT AND RATHER CURLY; HIS EYEBROWS MET ABOVE THE NOSE; HE HAD EARS OF MORATE SIZE, A NOSE PROJECTG A LTLE AT THE TOP AND THEN BENDG WARD, AND A PLEXN TERMEDIATE BETWEEN DARK AND FAIR. JULI MARATH, AUGT' EEDMAN AND RERR, MAK HIS HEIGHT 5 FEET 7 CH; BUT THIS WAS AN EXAGGERATN, ALTHOUGH, WH BODY AND LIMBS SO BETIFULLY PROPORTNED, ONE DID NOT REALIZE HOW SMALL A MAN HE WAS, UNLS SOMEONE TALL STOOD CLOSE TO HIM." HISTORIL VILLA UPGRA: UNLIKE MASTREAM HISTORIL ACUNTS WHO ACTUALLY ARGUED AGAST PROSCRIPTNS FOR WEEKS BEFORE RELUCTANTLY RELENTG, OCTAVIAN IS THE ONE WHO WR AND PROPOS THE PROSCRIPTN MURR LISTS DURG HIS TENURE THE SEND TRIUMVIRATE WH LEPID AND ANTONY MUCH TO THEIR SHOCK AND OFF AS MUCH MORE LLO AND CEL THAN HE IS PORTRAYED HISTORIL ACUNTS. HE IS ALSO PICTED DOG VAR THGS, SUCH AS HAVG SEX WH HIS SISTER AND PARTICIPATG THE TORTURE-MURR OF EVANR, FOR WHICH NO HISTORIL EVINCE EXISTS. INFO DUMP: A GREAT AL OF ROMAN POLICS ARE REVEALED THROUGH OCTAVIAN. INTERGENERATNAL FRIENDSHIP: WH T PULLO. AN ODD FRIENDSHIP TOO, SCE PULLO IS IMPULSIVE AND VISCERAL, WHILE OCTAVIAN IS EVEN MORE SELF-NTROLLED AND CEREBRAL THAN VOREN. INTERPLAY OF SEX AND VLENCE: WH HIS WIFE LIVIA. JT THE FIRST CIZEN: JTIFIED FOR POLIL REASONS.ATIA: MY NGRATULATNS, YOU'RE GOOD AS KG NOW.OCTAVIAN: NOT KG, MERELY FIRST CIZEN. LEGACY CHARACTER: SE HIMSELF AS THIS AFTER CAAR NAM HIM ADOPTIVE SON AND SOLE HEIR HIS WILL. LONELY AT THE TOP: PLAYED WH BUT SENTIALLY AVERTED. HIS MOTHER AND SISTER PRETTY MUCH HATE HIM BY THE END OF THE SERI. HE VALU HIS RELATNSHIP WH PULLO AND VOREN (PECIALLY THE FORMER) TO A TOUCHG GREE BUT OFF AS MOSTLY ONE-SID. HE DO HAVE A SUPPORTIVE WIFE AND TE COMPANNS MAECENAS AND AGRIPPA BY HIS SI THOUGH. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT: WH LIVIA. MANIPULATIVE BASTARD: ONE OF THE BT OF THE SERI. MISTAKEN FOR GAY: HE HELPS POS TAKE CAAR TO A CLOSET TO ATTEND HIM WHILE CAAR IS HAVG A SEIZURE SO NOBODY ELSE SE . LATER, ATIA SE OCTAVIAN AND CAAR GETTG OUT OF THE CLOSET AND THKS THAT HER SON AND UNCLE ARE HAVG AN AFFAIR... AND SHE IS LIGHTED WH THE IA SCE ULD PROVI HER WH MORE POWER. NO SYMPATHY: NONE TOWARDS ANYONE. NON-ACTN GUY: OCTAVIAN JT ISN'T F TO BE A WARRR, WHICH ADMS HIMSELF. SO HE MANIPULAT THE WARRR-TYP TO KILLG EACH OTHER. THE PATRIARCH: TURNS TO THIS WHEN CAAR DI. THE PLAN: VERY GOOD AT MAKG THE. RED ONI, BLUE ONI: BLUE TO MARK ANTONY'S RED. SECRET-KEEPER: AFTER HE DISVERS THAT CAAR HAS EPILEPSY. SIBLG THEME NAMG: HIS SISTER IS NAMED OCTAVIA. THIS WAS MON ROMAN CTOM, AS SEEN THE VORENI EXAMPLE LISTED BEFORE. SMART PEOPLE PLAY CHS: OCTAVIAN PLAYS A CHS-LIKE GAME HIS FAL SCENE. THE STOIC: RARELY EMOT AND BARELY CRACKS A SE AND TALKS A PLETE MONOTONE. TIME-SHIFTED ACTOR: MAX PIRKIS PLAYED OCTAVIAN AS A CHILD BUT WAS TOO YOUNG TO PORTRAY HIM AS A MAN HIS TWENTI SO SEASON TWO HE IS REPLACED BY SIMON WOODS. TOOK A LEVEL BADASS: WHEN HE FIRST MAK HIS MOVE TO POLICS BY BORROWG AGAST JULI CAAR'S ASSETS (WHICH ANTONY IS NOW G FOR HIMSELF) ANTONY IS SO FUR HE BEATS OCTAVIAN AND THEY PART AS ENEMI SCREAMG ABE AT EACH OTHER. IN SEASON 2, OCTAVIAN DISVERS THAT ANTONY'S WIFE IS CHEATG WH ONE OF HIS GENERALS. HE SILENC ATIA WH A SGLE WORD, THEN WHEN ANTONY GO TO THROTTLE HIM JT LOOKS HIM THE EYE AND DAR HIM TO DO , THREATENG TO EXPOSE ANTONY TO PUBLIC RIDICULE IF HE DON'T LEAVE ROME FOR EGYPT. HE THEN HAS HIS MOTHER AND SISTER PLACED UNR HOE ARRT. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: BY THE TIME HE RETURNS TO ROME AS AN ADULT, HE APPEARS TO HAVE TRANSNED TO AN UNSYMPATHETIC VILLA. TE COMPANNS: WH MAECENAS AND AGRIPPA. UNRTIMATG BADASSERY: THOUGH PERHAPS HERE BETTER LLED 'UNRTIMATG MAGNIFICENT BASTARDRY'. IN PARTICULAR, THE ENTIRE SEND SEASON NSISTS OF PEOPLE DISMISSG OCTAVIAN AS A THREAT BEE OF HIS 'YOUTH AND EXPERIENCE' ONLY TO FD THEMSELV OUTMANVERED, MARGALIZED, AND OFTEN AD FOR UNRSTIMATG HIM. WISE BEYOND THEIR YEARS: EVEN AS A CHILD, HE HAD AN ALMOST IGHTENG GRASP OF POLIL STRATEGI. THOUGH WAS IALLY NSTCTED THAT SPE HIS WISDOM, HIS ELRS NSTANTLY MEANED AND DISRPECTED HIM DUE TO A SIGNATED LACK OF EXPERIENCE, WHICH OCTAVIAN MAK THEM SUFFER FOR LATER. XANATOS SPEED CHS: OCTAVIAN'S BT TACTIC. HE EVEN THIS TO BEE THE FIRST EMPEROR. YOUNG CONQUEROR: THOUGH ONLY BEE HE'S SMART ENOUGH TO REC PETENT GENERALS AND LEAVE THE FIGHTG TO THEM. YOUNG FUTURE FAMO PEOPLE: AT THE START OF THE SERI.MARK ANTONY"I SHALL BE A GOOD POLICIAN. EVEN IF KILLS ME. OR IF KILLS ANYONE ELSE, FOR THAT MATTER."JULI CAAR'S RIGHT HAND MAN AND A TALENTED SOLDIER AND POLICIAN HIS OWN RIGHT, THOUGH HE IS HAMPERED BY HIS MANY FLAWS. IN THE AFTERMATH OF CAAR'S ATH, HE IS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL MEN ROME, PUTTG HIM DIRECT NFLICT WH OCTAVIAN, CAAR'S HEIR. PLAYED BY JAM PUREFOY. AFFABLY EVIL: A HATE-FILLED MAN OF RAPAC AND SELF-AGGRANDIZG STCTS, BUT HE'S QUE GENIAL. HIS METHODS OF TIMIDATN, PARTICULAR, ARE ALWAYS OF THE IRON-FIST--THE-VELVET-GLOVE TYPE. ANYTHG THAT MOV: AS HE PUTS , "I'M NOT RISG OM THIS BED UNTIL I'VE FUCKED SOMEONE." SEE THE NOTE FOR REALLY GETS AROUND. APPEAL TO FORCE: ANTONY TENDS TO GET HIS WAY BY RORTG TO THREATS OF PHYSIL ERCN AND VLENCE, AS SEEN HIS "NEGOTIATN" WH CAAR'S ASSASSS. LATER DENSTCTED, AS HIS RELIANCE ON BTE POWER WDS UP WH HIM OUTMANVERED BY THE WEAKER, BUT MORE POLILLY SAVVY OCTAVIAN. ARRANGED MARRIAGE: MARRI OCTAVIA TO SECURE A PARTNERSHIP WH OCTAVIAN. BADASS BOAST: MARK ANTONY BUGGERS BOYS LIKE OCTAVIAN FOR HIS MORNG SNACK, MEANGFULLY UNRSTAT HIS MASTERFUL SPEECH AS "I GOT A B RRIED AWAY" AND "HAS AN ANGRY MOB THAT WILL ROAST AND EAT YOUR 'MEN OF QUALY' THE ASH OF THE SENATE HOE!" BEARD OF SORROW: MARK ANTONY GROWS A BEARD AFTER OCTAVIAN CSH HIS REBELLN. ACRDG TO HISTORIL ACUNT, THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED. BELLIGERENT SEXUAL TENSN: WH BOTH ATIA AND CLEOPATRA. BERSERK BUTTON: TOO MANY TO UNT. TELLG HIM THAT "A WOMAN'S ROLE ALWAYS SUED YOU BT" IS PROBABLY THE ONE TO AVOID. BETTER TO DIE THAN BE KILLED: FAMOLY MS SUICI RATHER THAN BE KILLED BY OCTAVIAN. BLOOD KNIGHT: LAMPSHAD BY CAAR HIS FIRST SCENE, WHEN BT ASKS WHY HE KEEPS SUCH A VULGAR MAN AROUND. "HE LIK TO FIGHT." BREAD AND CIRC: TRYG TO VOKE A 0% APPROVAL RATG, HE CUTS OFF GRA SHIPMENTS OM EGYPT TO ROME FOR PRAGMATIC REASONS, KNOWG THE MON PEOPLE WILL BLAME OCTAVIAN FOR THE LACK OF FOOD. BRILLIANT, BUT LAZY: WHEN HE PUTS HIS MD TO , HE N BE ALMOST AS CUNNG, CHARISMATIC, AND DOMATG AS THE NEXT MAN, BUT HE UALLY DON'T BOTHER TO TRY, PREFERRG TO DULGE SOME VICE OR ANOTHER. BYRONIC HERO: HE HAS MANY ADMIRABLE QUALI — BRAVERY, ARY SKILL, POPULARY AND LOV TO PARTY. UNFORTUNATELY HE'S ALSO VLENT, FICKLE, SELFISH AND LOV TO PARTY. THE CHARMER: EMPHASIZ HIS EXUBERANT CHARISMA AND WARTIME ROGUISH CHARM TO WOO MANY FEMAL CLUDG THE EQUALLY CHARMG CLEOPATRA, SPIRE LOYALTY HIS MEN, AND MATA A LEVEL OF POPULARY AMONG THE PLEBEIANS TO POT OF HAVG A PERSONALY CULT. CHEWG THE SCENERY: HE HAS HIS MOMENTS. CONSIR THE BELOW EXAMPLE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND CASSI, HAVG SENTIALLY ORRED THE LATTER AND BT OUT OF ROME.CASSI: [SNEERG] YOU MAY WISH AS YOU WILL. WE YET HAVE ALL THE SENATE BEHD AND ALL THE MEN OF QUALY. [ANTONY SLOWLY WALKS OVER TO HIM]ANTONY: AND I HAVE AN ANGRY MOB, THAT WILL ROAST AND EAT YOUR "MEN OF QUALY" IN THE ASHES OF THE SENATE HOUSE! CO UNTERPT: HAPPENS OCSNALLY. COUNTRY MATTERS: WHOLEHEARTEDLY EMBRAC THIS TROPE, TO THE POT THAT "JUNO'S CUNT!" IS HIS TCHPHRASE. CURB-STOMP BATTLE: POLILLY SPEAKG TO BT AND HIS FACTN THE OPENG OF SEASON 2. HE'S ABLE TO TURN THE ROMAN PEOPLE AGAST THEM NEAR EFFORTLSLY AND SPE THEM HAVG NTROL OF THE CY BY THE BEGNG OF THE EPISO BY THE END THEY'RE FLEEG FOR THEIR LIV WH ANTONY AS THE SOLE AND ABSOULTE LER OF ROME. DA CHIEF: TO VOREN. DEAD GUY ON DISPLAY: ALONG WH CLEOPATRA DURG THE SERI FALE. DEADPAN SNARKER: ANTONY N BE VERY WTY AND FLIPPANT, AND IS FOND OF SNI MENTS. DEMOCRACY IS BAD: ANTONY PLAYS THE ELECTNS RD WHEN NEGOTIATG THE AFTERMATH OF CAAR'S ASSASSATN. THE NSPIRATORS ARE HORRIFIED AS THEY WOULD HAVE TO VALIDATE THEIR TAKEN FOR GRANTED POWERS. THEY REACH A PROMISE AND NO MOCRACY IS NEED. DISSONANT SERENY: DURG THE BATTLE OF PHILIPPI, OCTAVIAN IS PEERG TO THE DT KICKED UP BY TWO VIRTUALLY INTIL ROMAN ARMI SLOGGG OUT HAND-TO-HAND.OCTAVIAN: WHAT'S GOG ON?ANTONY: (SUALLY MUNCHG ON SOME BREAD) NOOOO IA. THE DRAGON: TO CAAR. DRAGON THEIR FEET: THE MAJOR REMAG OBSTACLE THAT THE NJURORS AGAST CAAR HAVE TO OVERE. AFTER CAAR'S ASSASSATN, ANTONY IS STILL A NSUL MANDG CAAR'S POWERBASE, ROURC AND FLUENCE. DRAMATILLY MISSG THE POT: ANTONY HAS BEEN FEATED ACTIUM, HE'S SO DNK VOREN N BEAT HIM BAT, AND HIS LUDICRO HOPE FOR SGLE BAT AGAST OCTAVIAN IS BSHED OFF. ALL ANTONY N DO IS STILL PARTY AND WHEN VOREN STARTS HEAVILY DRKG, ANTONY IS JT PROUD. DYG AS YOURSELF: IN ROMAN ATTIRE AND BY A PROPER ROMAN SWORD. ENEMY ME: TEAMS UP WH OCTAVIAN AGAST THE SENATORIAL FORC, SPE THE TWO LOATHG EACH OTHER. ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: STROLLG TO CAAR'S TENT VERED BLOOD, BANTERG WH BT, AND THEN, WHEN GIVEN A MISSN TO ACPLISH ON A STRICT BUDGET, UNABASHEDLY STEALG HALF THE MONEY ANYWAY. ONE OF HIS FIRST OUTDOOR ACTIVI HAS HIM FORNITG WH A FORCIBLY PEASANT GIRL WHILE HIS GUARDS WATCH AND HIS HORTS WA, ON THE WAY TO ROME WHEN TIME IS AT THE SCENE. HERE IS A MAN WHO SETS HIS APPET ABOVE EVERYTHG ELSE. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: AS MUCH OF A PRAVED AND HORRID MAN HE N BE, HE IS BLATANTLY DISGTED WH ATIA FOR HER SELFISH OPPORTUNISM AND HER ATTEMPT TO MANIPULATE HIM TO BETRAYG CAAR AND TAKG OVER ROME FOR HER WISH. HE SRNFULLY LLS HER A "WICKED OLD HARPY" FOR THIS. WHEN CLEOPATRA URG HIM TO MURR ATIA AND OCTAVIA, HE ALSO REF. EVIL VERS EVIL: HIS NFLICT AGAST OCTAVIAN. FACE DEATH WH DIGNY: "IT'S A GOOD PLACE TO DIE AT ANY RATE. COULD'VE BEEN A DCH GL. MEN THAT KNEW ALEXANR ... ONCE STOOD HERE." FETS TO EAT: NOTICEABLY AVERTED HIS SE. IT DON'T MATTER WHAT OTHER CRAZY SH IS GOG DOWN, WHAT STATE HE'S , HOW PREOCCUPIED HE MIGHT BE: IF THERE'S FOOD AND DRK GOG, ANTONY WILL HAVE A BE TO EAT AND A MUG OF WE, AND HE'LL EVEN MENT ON THE QUALY. HE'S NOT A BIG EATER, BUT HE NEVER FETS TO KEEP HIMSELF GOG. FOUR-STAR BADASS: THE ONE THG HE'S GOOD AT IS FIGHTG. UNFORTUNATELY OCTAVIAN FDS A BETTER GENERAL. GOG NATIVE: IN EGYPT, WH THE PERTENT BCHERI ATTACHED TO THE POST. THIS IS EVENTUALLY ED AGAS HIM. GUYLER: WHEN HE'S EGYPT. THIS IS PRENTED AS EXCSIVE EVIL EYHADOW BY THE PROPAGANDISTS. HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER: AS QUE A FEW PEOPLE FD OUT THE HARD WAY. HANDSOME LECH: GOOD-LOOKG, F AND UNQUTNGLY VIRILE. HAS A TYPE: RICH AMB BLOODTHIRSTY MOTHERS. ALTHOUGH OM DIFFERENT WORLDS CLEOPATRA IS PRETTY SIAR TO ATIA. THE HEDONIST: SPEND A GREAT LOT OF HIS TIME DULGG DRKG, HAVG SEX, PARTYG AND SPENDG MONEY WH WAR BEG THE ONLY THG THAT N MAKE HIM STOP. CICERO AND OCTAVIAN NEVER HATE TO E THIS AGAST HIM. HISTORIL VILLA DOWNGRA: IN THE SHOW, WHILE ANTONY GO ALONG WH THE PROSCRIPTNS 'S SHOWN TO BE OCTAVIAN'S IA AND HE'S RATHER SHOCKED WHEN 'S FIRST SUGGTED. MOST HISTORIL ACUNTS SUGGT WAS THE OTHER WAY ROUND. HOT-BLOOD: SEE SHOOT THE MSENGER. HUNK I BANGED YOUR MOMOCTAVIAN: I SEE YOU'RE STILL THE SAME C, ARROGANT LECH YOU ALWAYS WERE. (STRIS OUT)ANTONY: THAT'S RIGHT, JT THE SAME. AND STILL FUCKING YOUR MOTHER!! IMPLIED DEATH THREAT: A RUNNG GAG WH THE CHARACTER. INAQUATE INHEROR: THOUGH OUTSTANDG MANY WAYS, WH A WEEK AFTER CAAR'S ATH 'S CLEAR HE'S UNFORTABLE WEARG THE GREAT MAN'S SHO, EHER ARILY OR POLILLY. IT HAS BEEN AN HONOR: IN A BTERSWEET TOUCH, ANTONY IS SURPRISED WHEN VOREN SAYS GOODBYE TO HIM WH THOSE PARTG WORDS.ANTONY HAS ? LOVE EPIPHANY: OFFSCREEN BUT SCRIBED BY ANTONY TO OCTAVIA, THAT HE KNOWS ATIA IS AWFUL, BUT HE STILL LOV HER. LOVE TRIANGLE: FOR ALL HIS FILY, THERE IS GENUE LOVE BETWEEN HIM AND ATIA, AND LATER CLEOPATRA. UNFORTUNATELY EVEN ANTONY N'T HOLD THE AFFECTNS OF TWO TERMED AND POWERFUL WOMEN AT THE SAME TIME. HE CHOOS CLEOPATRA OVER ATIA (AND HIS LEGAL WIFE OCTAVIA) GIVG OCTAVIAN THE TOOL HE NEEDS TO STROY HIS REPUTATN. MALE FRONTAL NUDY: A SEASON ONE EPISO HAS VOREN BEG SUMMONED TO SPEAK TO HIM WHILE HE (ANTONY) IS BEG CLEANED WH OIL, BUCK NAKED. MANIPULATIVE BASTARD: WHILE HE UALLY PREFERS A BLUNT APPROACH, HE OUTMANVERS EVERYONE DURG THE LOGI OF CAAR AND GETS TO NTROL ROME THE AFTERMATH. MY MASTER, RIGHT OR WRONG: PLAYFUL EXAMPLE WH CAAR. ATIA TRI TO TURN ANTONY TO THE STARSCREAM BUT BACKFIR FOR HER WHEN ANTONY REALIZ OUT LOUD "WHAT A WICKED OLD HARPY YOU (ATIA) REALLY ARE". NO-HOLDS-BARRED BEATDOWN: TWICE; ONE THE ROMAN SENATE AND ANOTHER EGYPT. HE DON'T STOP UNTIL THE OFFENR IS AD. "NOT SO DIFFERENT" REMARK: GETS ONE OM VOREN, OF ALL PEOPLE. IN EGYPT THEY TALK ABOUT THEIR BYRONQUE/DOOMED SHARED NATURE:VOREN: YOU'RE NO WARD, BUT YOU DO HAVE A STRONG DISEASE YOUR SOUL. IT WILL EAT AWAY AT YOU UNTIL YOU DIE [...] I REGNIZE THE SYMPTOMS, I HAVE THE SAME SICKNS. THE PURGE: AFTER HE MAK PEACE WH OCTAVIAN, MARK ANTONY HANDS HIM A LOOOOOONG LIST OF ROMAN CIZENS HE WANTS SLGHTERED. THE NEXT DAY HE UP WH MORE NAM, AS HE'S GOT SO MANY ENEMI TAK A WHILE TO REMEMBER THEM ALL. REALLY GETS AROUND: ATIA MANDS THAT WHEN THEY MARRY HE WILL GET RID OF ALL SLAV (MALE AND FEMALE) HE HAS BEDD. RED ONI, BLUE ONI: RED TO OCTAVIAN'S BLUE. WHICH IS FUNNY NSIRG WHEN THEY RELUCTANTLY CHOOSE TO HAVE AN ALLIANCE (WHAT IS TO BE THE SEND TRIUMVIRATE), OCTAVIAN WEARS THE STANDARD RED-AND-GOLD ROMAN ARMOR WHILE MARK ANTONY WEARS CTOM BLUE-AND-WHE ARMOR. ROG SPEECH: SUBVERTED FOR ANTONY'S SPEECH AFTER CAAR'S FUNERAL (THE ONE THAT BEME KNOWN AS SHAKPEARE'S FAMED, ALTHOUGH ENTIRELY FICTNAL, "FRIENDS, ROMANS, UNTRYMEN" SPEECH). WE SEE THE RULTS OF HIS SPEECH, AND EVEN HAVE SEVERAL CHARACTERS SCRIBE WHAT HAPPENED, BUT NONE OF THE ACTUAL SPEECH IS SHOWN OR HEARD. SHOOT THE MSENGER: OR BEAT HIS BRAS OUT WH THE SCROLL HE WAS READG OM. SLEAZY POLICIAN: MAK NO SECRET OF EHER. SLOUCH OF VILLAY: HE'S VISIBLY BORED AND LAID-BACK WHEN HE'S PRIDG OVER SENATORIAL SSNS. UNDYG LOYALTY: TO CAAR. ANTONY GETS FUR WHEN ATIA SUGGTS HE SWCH TO POMPEII'S SI WHEN THEY THK CAAR IS GOG TO LOSE. AND HE IS EVEN MORE FUR WHEN CAAR IS MURRED BY BT AND THE OTHERS. THE STARSCREAM: WHEN CAAR IS TRAPPED GREECE AND WANTS HIS HELP, ANTONY IS SHOWN LAYG HIS RPONSE. FORTUNATELY ATIA OVERPLAYS HER HAND. TALL, DARK, AND HANDSOME THE UN-FAVOURE: HE LED CAAR'S ARMI, HELD ROME WHEN HE WAS AWAY AND BEME CONSUL THE SENATE FOR CAAR. THIS UNTS FOR NOTHG AND HE IS CLEARLY HURT WHEN HE FDS OUT THAT CAAR LEFT EVERYTHG TO OCTAVIAN AND NOTHG TO HIM. THE ISSUE REMAS A SORE POT BETWEEN HIM AND OCTAVIAN. VILLA WH GOOD PUBLICY: CUTS OFF THE GRA SUPPLI TO ROME, BUT THE PEOPLE BLAME OCTAVIAN STEAD. OCTAVIAN HAS TO ENGEER THE CIRCUMSTANC THAT TURN THE PEOPLE AGAST HIM. WACKY FRATBOY HIJKS: IN EGYPT. THIS BEG ROME, THEY ARE TAKEN UP TO ELEVEN. WHAT YOU ARE THE DARK: CAAR LLS FOR HIS HELP WHILE ON THE VERGE OF FEAT GREECE, AT THE SAME TIME HE GETS AN OFFER OF AMNTY OM POMPEY. ANTONY LAYS HIS RPONSE UNTIL ATIA'S NAKED AMBN SNAPS HIM OUT OF . IRONILLY HE LOS HIS ENTIRE LEGN A STORM, BUT THAT'S THE CLOST HE EVER TO BETRAYG CAAR.ATIA OF THE JULII "I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. I N SEE YOU. YOU ARE SWEARG NOW THAT SOME DAY... SOME DAY YOU WILL STROY ME... REMEMBER, FAR BETTER WOMEN THAN YOU HAVE SWORN TO DO THE SAME. GO AND LOOK FOR THEM NOW."CAAR'S NIECE AND MOTHER TO OCTAVIAN AND OCTAVIA, PL LONG-TIME LOVER OF MARK ANTONY. ATIA IS AN EXTREMELY AMB AND EVIL MATRIARCH SUPREME THAT STOPS ALMOST AT NOTHG TO GET WHAT SHE WANTS. SHE'S THE REAL POWER FORCE THE JULIAN HOEHOLD... AT LEAST, UNTIL OCTAVIAN GROWS OLD ENOUGH TO OVERLE HER. PLAYED BY POLLY WALKER. ABIVE PARENTS: ESPECIALLY TO OCTAVIA, AT FIRST. SHE IS ALWAYS ONE TO OCTAVIAN FAVOR OF ANTONY WHICH B HER BACK HARD LATER ON. BADASS BOAST: BIS THE QUOTE, THERE IS ALSO "BY THE FIVE FURI, IF I WAS NOT A GENTLE WOMAN, I WOULD HAVE YOU FLAYED, AND HUNG OM A BRACKET AT THE DOOR!" BELLIGERENT SEXUAL TENSN: WH MARK ANTONY. BIGGER IS BETTER BED: FIRM BELIEVER THIS. BLOOD BATH: IN THE FIRST EPISO ATIA TAK A SHOWER THE BLOOD POURG DOWN OM A SLGHTERED BULL DURG A RUAL TO ENSURE THE SAFE TRAVELG OF HER SON TO GL. BREAK THE HGHTY: BY THE END OF THE SERI HER SON IS THE MOST POWERFUL MAN THE KNOWN WORLD AND WILL REMA THAT TO THE DAY HE DI, PART BEE OF HER NSTANT SCHEMG AND HER UPBRGG OF HIM. YET THE LOVE OF HER LIFE HAS ABANDONED HER AND THEN MTED SUICI, AND BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG LIVIA HAS SURPASSED HER FLUENCE OVER AND RPECT OM OCTAVIAN. PL, OCTAVIAN HIMSELF NOW SEEMS TO TAKE A SADISTIC PLEASURE MAKG HIS MOTHER QUIETLY SUFFER, AND WILL NO DOUBT ENSURE SHE LIV BY THE STANDARDS OF A PROPER ROMAN MATRON (I.E. HIS L) OM NOW ON. BAD LIAR: ATIA IS AN ABYSMAL LIAR. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN OCTAVIA ASKS IF SHE'S KILLED HER HBAND HER NIAL IS CREDIBLY FALSE AND THEATRIL. THE CHSMASTER: SHE LIK TO THK SHE'S THIS, BUT SCE HER PLANS FAIL AT LEAST HALF THE TIME AND SHE SEEMS TO ACT ON WHIM A LOT, SHE'S MORE OF A SMUG SNAKE. CLGY JEALO GIRL: NOT THAT SHE DON'T KNOW THAT ANTONY SCREWS AROUND, BUT GO TO THIS MO WHENEVER SHE THKS HE MIGHT HOOK UP WH A SER RIVAL FOR HER AFFECTNS. CO UNTERPT: WH ANTONY A FEW TIM. COMPOSE CHARACTER: THE HISTORIL NSULTANT JONATHAN STAMP STATED THAT THE CHARACTER'S MA FLUENCE WAS A NOBLEWOMAN NAMED CLODIA—A SISTER (AND ALLEGED LOVER) OF ONE OF CICERO'S ENEMI. THIS CLODIA WHO ALSO HAD A REPUTATN FOR PROMISCUY AND GENERAL ALPHA BCH BEHAVR. AT THE SAME TIME, HER DALLIANCE WH ANTHONY, NTUED AGE OF THUGS TO DO HER BIDDG AND PERSISTENT ATTEMPTS AT BEG A POWER-BROKER ALSO MAKE HER A FACSIE OF ANTHONY'S REAL LIFE THIRD WIFE, FULVIA—WHO HAD ED A NEGATIVE REPUTATN AND HAD A MASSIVE VTED TERT MAKG ANTONY THE SUPREME POWER ROME. MUCH OF THE JTIFITN THIS ATIA GIV TO ANTHONY TO STAY ROME STEAD OF FOLLOWG CAAR TO HIS MPAIGNS WERE THE VERY SAME THGS FULVIA DID ORR TO NSOLIDATE POWER AFTER THE ASSASSATN OF CAAR. DELIBERATE VALU DISSONANCE: THE DON'T MANAGE (NOR AIM) TO MAKE ATIA SYMPATHETIC TO THE VIEWER, BUT THEY DO MAKE HER AN UNEXPECTEDLY FUNNY CHARACTER. EXAMPL CLU NONCHALANTLY DISCSG HOW THE FAY SHOULD M MASS SUICI, BEG OVERJOYED WHEN THKG THAT HER SON AND UNCLE HAVE AN CTUO AFFAIR OR THREATENG TO HAVE HER SON'S BOOKS BURNED IF HE DON'T GO TO A BROTHEL AND LOSE HIS VIRGY. DISPROPORTNATE RETRIBUTN: I DON'T LIKE THAT PLEBEIAN IEND OF MY DGHTER. SHE'S A BAD FLUENCE. LET'S HAVE HER ENTIRE FAY MURRED, HER HOE SACKED AND THE POOR GIRL GANG RAPED. ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: PARADG AROUND NAKED ONT OF HER SON. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: IS UTTERLY APPALLED BY HER SON'S ACTNS THROUGHOUT THE SERI, RANGG OM HAVG CT TO DISGRACG OCTAVIA AND KNOWGLY HUIATG HER ONT OF MARK ANTONY. EVIL IS PETTY: "AND YOUR [HBAND'S] SLAV, WHAT A FS [OVER YOU DIVORCG HIM]! I SWEAR YOU MT BE FEEDG THEM TOO MUCH!" EVIL MATRIARCH: ATIA IS THE EPOME OF THIS TROPE, AT LEAST ACRDG TO MORN VALU. WHEN JUDGED BY ROMAN VALU, IS CLEAR THAT HER ACTN, EVEN THE MOST THLS ON, ARE DONE OUT OF A GENUE NCERN FOR HER CHILDREN'S SURVIVAL THE CUT-THROAT WORLD OF ANCIENT ROMAN POLICS. THOUGH THAT STANDARD BE MOOT LATER THE SERI WHEN HER MOTIV BEE FIXED ON SELF-TERT AT THE ST OF HER CHILDREN. EVIL REDHEAD: SHE HAS RED HAIR. FX AFFABLY EVIL: ATIA N BE CREDIBLY CHARMG AND IENDLY TO MORTAL ENEMI AND PEOPLE SHE IS PLANNG TO TORTURE AND MURR (NAMELY SERVILIA). SHE N MASTERFULLY LIVER L SUCH AS "EAT SH AND DIE" A PLEASANT MANNER, BEE TO ATIA, WOULD BE A WEAKNS TO SHOW ANGER ONT OF A FOE. IN PRIVATE HOWEVER, SHE IS MORE PASSNATE AND GENUE. FEMME FATALE: HAS NO PROBLEM G SEX AND EMOTNAL MANIPULATN TO GET HER WAY. FORTUNE SAVE US FROM THE QUEEN: ONE HAS TO NCLU SHE'D BE THIS, IF MARK ANTONY HAD GONE WH HER PLAN OF MARRYG HER AND PROCLAIMG HIMSELF KG. GEO PERD DRS: WEARS SEVERAL OF THEM. HISTORIL VILLA UPGRA: ATIA IS PORTRAYED AS SCTIVE, MANIPULATIVE AND EVIL. THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO HISTORIL EVINCE FOR THIS; TAC ACTUALLY SCRIB HER AS A P, VOTED MOTHER AND AN IAL ROMAN MATRON. OH, AND HER ENMY WH LIVIA WAS VENTED BY THE SERI, TOO; BY THE TIME OCTAVIAN HAD MET AND MARRIED LIVIA, ATIA HAD BEEN AD FOR FIVE YEARS! IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: A RUNNG GAG WH THE CHARACTER. ANTONY TURNS UP AT HER HOE HAVG BARELY PED ASSASSATN. FIRST SHE'S OVERJOYED HER LOVER IS ALIVE, THEN MOMENTS LATER SHE'S DROPPG SNI MENT ABOUT HOW HE DIDN'T STOP CAAR'S ASSASSATN SPE BEG UNARMED. SHE PLAG ABOUT HAVG TO FOLLOW HIM OOP NORTH WHERE HE N RAISE AN ARMY, BUT WHEN ANTONY SAYS SHE DON'T HAVE TO E SHE ACC HIM OF TENDG TO TAKE ONE OF HIS OTHER GIRLIENDS ALONG. IT'S PERSONAL: HER WAR WH SERVILIA TAK A NASTY EDGE ON FDG THAT SERVILIA HAS SCED HER DGHTER AND TRIED TO TURN OCTAVIA AGAST HER FAY. JERKASS: ALBE OFTEN PLAYED FOR BLACK COMEDY. KARMA HOUDI WARRANTY: SHE HAS HER EX-SON--LAW MURRED, A RICH PLEB GIRL'S FAY KILLED AND THE GIRL HERSELF GANG-RAPED AND RCED TO POVERTY. THERE'S NO OBV PUNISHMENT FOR THIS, THOUGHT SHE SORT OF GETS HER PPANCE WHEN OCTAVIAN ARRANG FOR ANTONY TO MARRY OCTAVIA STEAD OF HER LIKE SHE WANTED. LADY MACBETH: MOSTLY TO MARK ANTONY, BUT A RATHER EFFECTIVE ONE. LONELY AT THE TOP: ATIA ENDS THE SERI AS THE MOTHER OF THE MOST POWERFUL MAN THE ROMAN EMPIRE ONCE OCTAVIAN BE EMPEROR — BUT SHE'S PLETELY HIS POWER, HAS LOST ALL FLUENCE OVER HIM AND HIS WIFE LIVIA CLEARLY NOW HAS HIS EAR. HER CEL PERSONALY HAS PLETELY ISOLATED EVERYONE AROUND HER, CLUDG HER CHILDREN. THE MAN SHE LOVED MOST SPURNED HER FOR SOMEONE ELSE AND HAS MTED SUICI, LEAVG HER PLETELY ALONE A LUXUR BUT UTTERLY MEANGLS EXISTENCE. MANIPULATIVE BCH: HANDS DOWN ONE OF THE BT. MS. FANSERVICE: POLLY WALKER HAS AN AMAZG BODY, WHICH IS SEEN NU SEVERAL TIM. HER FIRST APPEARANCE HAS HER EMERGG OM A BATH, SHOWG OFF EVERYTHG. MYSTER VEIL: IS IMPLIED TO BE THE VEILED WOMAN WHO PUBLICLY HUIAT SERVILIA WH A TRMATIC HAIRCUT. MY BELOVED SMOTHER: TOWARDS BOTH HER CHILDREN BUT FAILS TO BE THIS TO OCTAVIAN ONCE HE'S GROWN UP. MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?: WHEN ATIA REALIZ TOWARDS THE END OF THE SEND SEASON WHAT A LD-HEARTED AND CEL MONSTER OCTAVIAN HAS BEE, SHE SPENDS THE LAST EPISO REFLECTG ON WHAT A GOOD HONT BOY HE WAS WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. IT FALLY SKS TO ATIA THAT THE MANIPULATN AND THGS SHE FORCED HIM TO DO THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE FOR HER OWN SELFISH AIMS IS WHAT ED HER SON TO BEE WHAT HE IS NOW.ATIA: HE WASN'T LIKE THAT AS CHILD, HE WAS A GOOD HONT BOY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED....I'M TO BLAME PROBABLY. OBVLY EVIL: AS NICE AS POLLY WALKER N BE TO THE EY, SHE PLA LOOKS EVIL WHEN DRSG AS A ROMAN PATRICIAN WOMAN. PET THE DOG: SHE DO SHOW GENUE RE FOR HER CHILDREN, EVEN IF SHE IS ALWAYS PUTTG THEM THE MIDDLE OF HER PETTY SCHEM. SHE APPEARS TO BE MORE SYMPATHETIC TOWARDS OCTAVIA THE LATTER HALF OF SEASON 2, DURG HER VILLAO BREAKDOWN. PYRRHIC VICTORY: AT THE END OF THE SHOW SHE HAS FULFILLED HER LIFELONG AMBN TO BRG HER HOEHOLD TO PREEMCENCE THE REPUBLIC AND TO BEE THE FIRST LADY OF ROME. BUT SHE HAS LOST THE ONLY MAN THAT SHE (PERHAPS) HAS REALLY LOVED. AND, SPE HER BADASS BOAST, HER POSN IS FAR OM SECURE. THE LER OF ROME IS THE ONE MAN SHE NNOT EASILY MANIPULATE: A SON WHO SPIS HER AND HAS NO QUALMS ABOUT G HER FOR HIS OWN GOALS. AND HER DGHTER--LAW CLEARLY VI FOR HER POSN AND IS AS THLS AND UNMERCIFUL AS HER HBAND. THE SAD LOOK ON HER FACE WHEN THE EFFIGI OF MARK ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA PASS DURG OCTAVIAN’S TRIUMPHAL PROCSN TELLS ALL. SHUT UP, HANNIBAL!: A RARE VILLAO EXAMPLE, BUT SHE DO LIVER ONE TO LIVIA. THOUGH BY THIS TIME, ATIA'S STAT AS A VILLA HAS YED. THE RIVAL: TO SERVILIA, LIVIA, CALPURNIA (ARGUABLE UNKNOWN RIVAL THIS SE) AND EVEN CLEOPATRA HERSELF. IN SHORT, ATIA DON'T LIKE ANY OTHER WOMAN THAT DAR TO SEEM PABLE OF GAG PROMENCE THE JULIAN HOEHOLD. SMUG SNAKE: LEAVG TO THE EVABLE BREAK THE HGHTY. NOTABLLY EVERY CHARACTER WH POWER THROUGHOUT THE SERI JT TREATS HER AS AN IRRATN. SPARED BY THE ADAPTATN: THE REAL-LIFE ATIA DIED ONLY A YEAR AFTER HER UNCLE, JULI CAAR. STEALTH INSULT: A RUNNG GAG WH THE CHARACTER, AND LAMPSHAD BY HER DGHTER. ATIA N'T SEEM TO PRAISE SOMEONE WHOUT PUTTG THEM DOWN THE SAME BREATH.THANK YOU, DGHTER. I REALLY APPRECIATE THE LTLE CHATS WE HAVE BETWEEN YOUR DG BG. THE VAMP: SC ANYONE SHE FANCI. VIRG-SHAMG: ATIA FIRMLY BELIEV THIS. WHICH IS WHY SHE ARRANG FOR OCTAVIAN TO VIS A BROTHEL, SO THAT HE N BEE A REAL MAN. WOMAN SRNED: SHE TAK OFFENSE ON CLEOPATRA FOR STEALG ANTONY AND PS OCTAVIAN AGAST THEM (EVEN MORE). WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS A HAMMER…: TIMON AND HIS MEN ARE THIS FOR ATIA. THE ONLY REASON SH A THREAT IS BEE SHE HAS HIM TO RELY ON, AS SH A TERRIBLE SCHEMER AND MANIPULATOR. WOULD HURT A CHILD SENDS HER OWN CHILD ON A DANGERO MISSN TO GL, THEN THREATENS A MN THAT IF HE DON'T E BACK SAFELY SHE'LL E THE EY OF HIS CHILDREN FOR BEADS. SHE ATTACKS OCTAVIAN AFTER DISVERG HE'S HAD CT WH HIS SISTER. YOU JT TOLD ME: BY ATIA TO EXPOSE OCTAVIA'S RELATNSHIP TO AGRIPPA.OCTAVIA OF THE JULII"PLEASE, CASTOR, LET MOTHER [KILL ME]! I WON'T NY HER ONE LAST PLEASURE. IT WOULD BE UNDGHTERLY."OCTAVIAN'S OLR SISTER AND WOOBIE SUPREME OF THE SERI. BEG THE ONLY WOMAN OF MARRYG AGE THE FAY MAK HER THE PERFECT UNWTG PAWN OF ATIA AND LATER OCTAVIAN TO GA POLIL FLUENCE. PLAYED BY KERRY CONDON. ACCINTAL PORNOMANCER: POOR OCTAVIA. FIRST THERE'S HER ARRANGED MARRIAGE TO GLABI, WHICH SHE IALLY DIDN'T WANT, BUT SHE ENDS UP LIKG HIM. THEN SHE HAS TO GET DIVORCED OM GLABI SO THAT SHE N BE OFFERED TO POMPEY, WHO ( THE ROMAN MANNER) HAS PRE-MARAL ANAL SEX WH HER BUT ENDS UP MARRYG SOMEONE ELSE. THEN SHE FALLS FOR SERVILIA AND HAS SEX WH HER, WHO THEN ERC HER TO HAVE SEX WH HER BROTHER FOR RMATN. IN SEASON TWO, MUCH TO HER OWN SURPRISE AFTER BEG PASSED AROUND SO MUCH, SHE FALLS FOR AGRIPPA BUT IS FORCED TO MARRY MARK ANTONY AND BEAR HIS CHILD. IT'S HTED THE FALE THAT SHE AND AGRIPPA MIGHT GET BACK TOGETHER. ARRANGED MARRIAGE: SET UP WH POMPEY AND ACTUALLY GONE THROUGH WH ANTONY. BIG SISTER INSTCT: MOST PROMENT WHEN SHE SH TO FORT OCTAVIAN AFTER HE'S CHOKED BY ANTONY, HOLDG HIM WHILE SHE SCREAMS AT THE OLR MAN AND LLS HIM AN ANIMAL FOR HIS TREATMENT OF HER BROTHER. SADLY, DON'T LAST, AND BY THE END OF THE SERI SHE APPEARS TO SPISE HIM FOR HIS SETTG UP OF HER AND ATIA TO BE HUIATED BY ANTONY. BUTT-MONKEY: OF THE JULII. SHE IS MANIPULATED BY SERVILIA TO HAVG SEX WH HER BROTHER, HER FIRST HBAND IS KILLED, ADDICTN, SELF-HARM (DURG HER BSOD. BRATTY TEENAGE DGHTER: ATIA HILARLY SE HER AS THIS.OCTAVIA: MOTHER, I WOULD RATHER WERE NOT YOU WHO KILLED ME. IF YOU HAVE NO OBJECTNS. ATIA: WHY EVER NOT? YOU N'T STILL BE ANGRY WH ME! BREAK THE CUTIE: GO THROUGH ONE OF THE SERI' HARSHT, RULTG HER BEG AN APATHETIC DEADPAN SNARKER, NO LONGER RG ABOUT POLICS OR HER FAY OR EVEN FIGURG OUT WHO FATHERED HER DGHTER. LAMPSHAD BY ATIA:ATIA: HAVE I CHANGED AT ALL, DO YOU THK, SCE HE LAST SAW ME? OCTAVIA: NO. YOU'RE JT EXACTLY AS YOU WERE. HE'LL FALL TO YOUR ARMS A LIRIUM OF LOVE. ATIA: DO YOU MEAN THAT? OCTAVIA: NO. ATIA: YOU'VE BEE VERY MEAN, YOU KNOW. MEAN AND BTER. BROTHER–SISTER INCT: SERVILIA ENURAG HER TO DO THIS ORR TO GET OCTAVIAN TO REVEAL SECRETS ABOUT CAAR. SHE DO SLEEP WH HIM BUT HE SE RIGHT THROUGH THE SE. DEADPAN SNARKER: BE ONE BY THE END OF THE SERI. IT NS THE FAY. FAY THEME NAMG: AS WAS CTOM AT THE TIME. SHE AND HER BROTHER OCTAVIAN HAD A FATHER NAMED OCTAVIAN. IN SEASON TWO HER DGHTER'S NAME IS ANTONIA (THOUGH 'S UNCLEAR IF ANTONY IS THE FATHER, OR IF AGRIPPA IS). FUNCTNAL ADDICT: SMOK DGS (POSSIBLY HASHISH OR OPIUM) DURG ONE LOW POT. HAPPILY MARRIED: TO GLABI. ATIA OF URSE HAS THEM DIVORCED AND ULTIMATELY GLABI KILLED. HEROIC BSOD: MORE THAN ONCE. MAMA'S BABY, PAPA'S MAYBE: HER BABY EHER BELONGS TO MARK ANTONY OR AGRIPPA. MORALY PET: TO SERVILIA, WHO REF TO LET HER HIRED ASSASS KILL OCTAVIA EVEN AFTER THEIR RELATNSHIP HAS FELT APART. FOR OCTAVIAN SEASON ONE, BUT SUBVERTED BEE SEASON 2 SHE ENDS UP JT A PAWN HIS SCHEM. LOOKG FOR LOVE ALL THE WRONG PLAC: HER BROTHER, HER MOTHER'S RIVAL, AND HER BROTHER'S GENERAL WHO IS TOO LOYAL TO HIM TO LIE ABOUT THE AFFAIR. STAR-CROSSED LOVERS: WH AGRIPPA TAKG THE VEIL: ATTEMPTS TO DO THIS PARTWAY THROUGH HER BREAK THE CUTIE AND FAILS WHEN OCTAVIAN BRIB THE PRITS TO SEND HER BACK TO HER FAY. TOKEN GOOD TEAM MATE: THOUGH SHE BE DARKER AND MORE CYNIL AS THE SHOW GO ON. UNWTG INSTIGATOR OF DOOM: OCTAVIA TURNS OUT TO BE DIRECTLY RPONSIBLE FOR THE ATHS OF JULI CAAR AND NBE. SCED BY SERVILIA, OCTAVIA ASKS OCTAVIAN TO TELL HER SOME SECRET THAT SHE N PASS TO SERVILIA AND THE POMPEIIAN MP (THEY, OF URSE, EXPECTG TO BE ABOUT CAAR) BUT ALL OCTAVIAN TELLS HER IS VOREN' WIFE'S AFFAIR. SERVILIA IALLY DISMISS THIS PIECE OF RMATN BUT BE EFUL WHEN VOREN BE CAAR'S GLORIFIED BODYGUARD, AND IS ED TO DRIVE HIM AWAY OM CAAR SO BT AND . N KILL HIM, UNLEASHG THE WHOLE SEND ROUND OF WAR AND POLIL ASSASSATNS. MEANWHILE, VOREN NONTS NBE AND SHE KILLS HERSELF OUT OF HONOR. IT ONLY GETS WORSE. WH CAAR AD, VOREN IS ALSO VULNERABLE AND ERAST FULMEN GO TO HIS HOE TO KILL HIM. HOWEVER, SCE VOREN IS OUT TO BURY HIS WIFE, HE ONLY FDS HIS CHILDREN AND SISTER--LAW THERE, AND HE ENSLAV THEM TO GET BACK AT VOREN.LIVIA DSILLA"OH, I DON'T MD REALLY, BUT IS REALLY I WHO SHOULD GO FIRST. IF YOU NSULT THE PRITS, I'LL THK YOU'LL FD THE WIFE TAK PRECENCE."OCTAVIAN'S WIFE, A SMART, NO-NONSENSE YOUNG PATRICIAN GIRL WHO HAS NO FEAR OF CHALLENGG ATIA. PLAYED BY ALICE HENLEY. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: APPEARS PUBLIC AS THE PERFECT WIFE OF A NSUL. ATIA QUICKLY AND ACCURATELY PEGS HER AS A POWER-HUNGRY RIVAL NO DIFFERENT THAN HERSELF. BRAY BTE: IN PUBLIC EVENTS AND EVEN PRIVATE DNERS SHE SEEMS SOMEWHAT DZY. IN PRIVATE SHE IS AS CLEVER AS OCTAVIAN, QUICKLY DUCG HIS REAL GOALS AND IS EVEN AMED BY HIS EXPLOATN OF HIS MOTHER. EVIL COUNTERPART: TO OCTAVIA. TO HER FAY (AND PECIALLY HER MOTHER), OCTAVIA IS LTLE MORE THAN A TOOL THAT N BE ED TO FE POLIL ALLIANC AND GA MORE POWER. LIVIA ALSO MARRI FOR POWER, LIKE OCTAVIA, BUT 'S HER WHO CIS TO DO SO, AND HER MOTHER DO NOT NTROL HER THE LEAST. ONCE MARRIED, OCTAVIA IS SUBMISSIVE AND LETS HER HBAND CI WHAT TO DO WH HER, WHILE LIVIA SOON RES OCTAVIAN . INTERPLAY OF SEX AND VLENCE: OH Y. OCTAVIAN WARNS HER BEFORE THEIR MARRIAGE THAT HE WILL BEAT HER FOR SEXUAL PLEASURE. TURNS OUT HE GETS EVEN MORE TURNED ON BY HER BEATG HIM. PERFECTLY ARRANGED MARRIAGE: NEHER SHE NOR OCTAVIAN ARE VERY NICE, BUT THEY SEEM LIKE A VERY GOOD MATCH. IN REAL LIFE, LIVIA AND OCTAVIAN WERE SEEN AS THE MOL ROMAN UPLE. "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH: SHE RECEIV A BRIEF BUT POWERFUL ONE OM ATIA THE FAL SCENE, AND YOU TELL H THE MARK. SEE THE AWOME PAGE. THE RIVAL: TAK SERVILIA'S PLACE AS ATIA'S. IT'S A PY THE SERI WAS NCELLED EARLY.CALPURNIA"SHE IS A SPECI OF STATUE."POS, ABOUT CALPURNIACAAR'S WIFE. PLAYED BY HAYDN GWYNNE. ARRANGED MARRIAGE: PERFECTLY NORMAL FOR A ROMAN WOMAN, PARTICULARLY A NOBLEWOMAN, BUT NOT GREAT WHEN YOUR HBAND HAS A LIBIDO YOU ULD HOLD UP A HOE WH. CHUCK CUNNGHAM SYNDROME. CALPURNIA IS SEEN LAST THE SEASON 2 PREMIERE. DREAMG OF THGS TO COME: DREAMS OF A FLOCK OF CROWS THAT FORM THE SHAPE OF A SKULL. CAAR DISMISS THE OMEN, SAYG HE'S BEEN HAVG DREAMS LIKE THAT FOR YEARS. HONOR BEFORE REASON: WILL NOT LEAVE ROME UNTIL CAAR'S WILL HAS BEEN READ EVEN AS PEOPLE ULD VERY WELL BE LOOKG TO KILL HER. IRONILLY THE WILL TURNS OUT TO BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVERYONE THKS. I CHOOSE TO STAY: ANTONY IS ENTIRELY WILLG TO FORCE HER TO E WH THEM, BEE WILL LOOK BAD POLILLY IF HE FLE ROME BUT LEAV CAAR'S WIFE BEHD. IRONILLY ANTONY ENDS UP STAYG ANYWAY WHEN OCTAVIAN EXPLAS WHY THE SMARTER MOVE WOULD BE TO STAY PUT AND ATIA BACKS HIM UP. SILK HIDG STEEL: IS THE PERFECT STAY THE KCHEN WIFE OF TRADNAL ROMAN VALU. HOWEVER WHEN SHE PUTS HER FOOT DOWN, EVEN CAAR AND ANTONY HAVE TO GO ALONG. MY SIGNIFINCE SENSE IS TGLG: SHE SENS DANGER AS THE IS DREW NEAR. HER HBAND BSH OFF HER WARNG. SPEFUL SP: CALPURNIA SPS AT SERVILIA'S FACE, TWICE, WHEN THEY FALLY MEET. UNWTG INSTIGATOR OF DOOM: WHEN HIS AFFAIR BE A PUBLIC SNDAL SHE MANDS HER HBAND DIVORCE HER OR GIVE UP HIS MISTRS. BEE WOULD BE POLILLY DISASTRO TO GET A DIVORCE AT THAT STAGE, CAAR VLENTLY DRIV AWAY SERVILIA, G HER TO TURN AGAST HIM HATE.POS"THE ROMAN PEOPLE ARE NOT CRYG OUT FOR CLEAN ELECTNS. THEY ARE CRYG OUT FOR JOBS. THEY ARE CRYG OUT FOR CLEAN WATER, FOR FOOD, FOR STABILY AND PEACE."AN OLD, WISE AND TED GREEK SLAVE OWNED BY CAAR, WHO HE TUTORED WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. NOWADAYS HE ACTS AS HIS PERSONAL MANSERVANT, UNSELOR AND NFINT. HE IS EE TO SPEAK HIS MD, WHICH CLUS A LOT OF SNARK. PLAYED BY NICHOLAS WOOSON. ALMIGHTY JANOR: TO CAAR. THE CONSIGLIERE: CONTU TO PLAY THIS ROLE TO ANTONY EVEN AFTER CAAR DI AND E HIM HIS WILL. HE EVEN TRI TO TE VOREN THE POLIL GAME. CORPT BURECRAT: AS A EEMAN HE QUICKLY ENRICH HIMSELF SELLG POLIL FAVORS, THOUGH HE'S FORCED TO LEAVE HIS WEALTH BEHD WHEN FLEEG EGYPT. HOWEVER HE PUTS HIMSELF A POSN WHERE OCTAVIAN OW HIM A HUGE POLIL FAVOR, SO THERE'S NO DOUBT HE'LL SOON GET BACK ON HIS FEET. THE DOG B BACK: UNLIKE CAAR, ANTONY IS PARTICULARLY CEL TO POS WHEN POS ACHIEV HIS EEDOM, EVEN THOUGH HE RELI ON POS'S ADMISTRATIVE KNOWLEDGE TO N HIS PORTN OF THE EMPIRE. TIRG OF ANTONY'S MOODS. POS STEALS HIS WILL AND SHAR WH OCTAVIAN. HAPPS SLAVERY: IN FAIRNS HE IS A VERY WELL RED FOR SLAVE. AFTER CAAR IS ASSASSATED HE SHEDS MANLY TEARS OVER HIS RPSE, AND RISKS HIS LIFE TAKG THE BODY TO HIS WIDOW'S HOE. HYPERPETENT SIKICK: ACTS AS ROME'S FACTO EXECUTIVE POWER UNR ANTONY, WHO IS BORED BY MOST OF THE THGS RELATED TO STATEMANSHIP. NON-ACTN GUY: AS HE PUTS , 'S NOT THAT HE'S A WARD — IF HE DIED, WHO WOULD LOOK AFTER HIS WIFE? ODD FRIENDSHIP: ALTHOUGH THEY ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT PEOPLE, HE VELOPS A RPECT FOR THE HONT-TO-A-FLT VOREN AND URG HIM TO FLEE EGYPT AS WELL. VOREN REF, BUT LETS POS AND HIS WIFE GET AWAY WHEN HE ULD EASILY HAVE STOPPED THEM, AND EVEN LI TO HIS MANR MARC ANTONY ABOUT THEIR WHEREABOUTS. PERFECTLY ARRANGED MARRIAGE: SOMEWHAT UNEXPECTEDLY WH JOSTA. TRIPL AS UGLY GUY, HOT WIFE AND MAY–DECEMBER ROMANCE. SCREW THIS, I'M OUT OF HERE!: WHEN ATIA AND OCTAVIA BRIEFLY SHOW UP EGYPT, HE AND JOSTA TAKE THE CHANCE TO QUIETLY SLIP AWAY TO THEIR BOAT AND SAFELY PE BACK HOME TO ROME. SECRET-KEEPER: TO CAAR. MORE IMPORTANTLY PLOTWISE, TO MARC ANTONY. WHEN FLEEG EGYPT, POS BRGS THE LAST WILL AND TTAMENT OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, A POLILLY EXPLOSIVE DOCUMENT THAT TURNS ROME AGAST THEM. SERVILE SNARKER: SO VERY MUCH. UNDYG LOYALTY: JT ONE WORD - "DOME!". BUT ONLY TO CAAR, AS TURNS OUT. ONCE A EEMAN, POS EVENTUALLY BETRAYS ANTONY WHEN HE REALIS HE N'T W.MARC AGRIPPA"I WOULD GO WH YOU TO HAS... TO BRA EVEN, IF I THOUGHT WE HAD THE RIGHT."A YOUNG, HUMBLE ROMAN GENERAL OF RAL ORIGS AND OLD IEND TO OCTAVIAN. HE LOV OCTAVIA, BUT HIS LOYALTY TO HER BROTHER WILL NEVER LET HIM PURSUE HER. PLAYED BY ALLEN LEECH. ANGUISHED DECLARATN OF LOVEAGRIPPA: I KNOW YOU ARE KD, AND FULL-HEARTED, AND BETIFUL, AND I WOULD TEAR DOWN THE SKY FOR YOU IF YOU ASKED ME TO. BEWARE THE NICE ON: AGRIPPA IS ONE OF THE KST, MOST CENT CHARACTERS THE SHOW. HOWEVER, HE'S ALSO THE ARY POWERHOE THAT PAV THE WAY FOR OCTAVIAN'S VICTORY. BLOOD KNIGHT: DOWNPLAYED, BUT HE CLEARLY ENJOYS BAT. WHEN MARK ANTONY LEADS A VALRY CHARGE AT THE BATTLE OF PHILIPPI, AGRIPPA WATCH THE HORSEMEN RI OFF LONGGLY UNTIL OCTAVIAN NOTIC AND GIV HIM LEAVE TO JO THE ATTACK, MUCH TO AGRIPPA'S GLEE. FOIL: AGRIPPA AND BT ARE FIVEN FOR A PAST BETRAYAL BUT AGRIPPA REF TO BETRAY OCTAVIAN A SEND TIME, UNLIKE BT DID WH CAAR. FOUR-STAR BADASS: OCTAVIAN'S GREATT GENERAL. EVERY VICTORY OCTAVIAN HAD THE BATTLEFIELD IS THANKS TO AGRIPPA'S PROWS AND CREDIBLE TALENT AS A BATTLE MANR. WHILE NOT TABLISHED TAIL THE SERI, HISTORILLY WAS AGRIPPA WHO ABSOLUTELY CSHED ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA'S FORC BATTLE OF ACTIUM AND STROYED SAID ALLIANCE. HYPERPETENT SIKICK: IN THE ONLY AREA THAT OCTAVIAN FALLS SHORT - ARY SKILL. INNOCENT BLUE EY: PORTRAYED AS MORE NOCENT AND HONT PARISON TO HIS MORE RPT AND CYNIL IENDS. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT: FALLS LOVE WH OCTAVIA ON SEEG HER PLAYG A HARP OF FEMY. NICE GUY: ONE OF THE NICT CHARACTERS WH THE SERI. HE TTS UNNECSARY VLENCE SUCH AS ANTONY'S PURGE OF SENATORIAL ENEMI. HE ALSO STANTLY ADMS TO HAVG AN AFFAIR WH OCTAVIAN'S SISTER ONCE OCTAVIAN LLS HIM OUT ON , AND THEN PROMPTLY APOLOGIZ FOR DOG SO. NOUVE RICHE: WASN'T BORN TO MONEY WHICH IS A SOURCE OF SECURY FOR HIM. NUMBER TWO: TO OCTAVIAN. STAR-CROSSED LOVERS: WH OCTAVIA TE COMPANNS: WH OCTAVIAN AND MAECENAS. UNDYG LOYALTY: TO OCTAVIAN.GAI MAECENAS"A VICTORY IS NO VICTORY UNLS HAS A SONG."ANOTHER IEND OF OCTAVIAN AND THIRD THE TR OF YOUNG MEN THAT GIVE BIRTH TO THE ROMAN EMPIRE. IN NTRAST TO AGRIPPA, MAECENAS IS A POLICIAN OM A WEALTHY URBAN FAY WHO HAS A TALENT FOR RHETORIC AND HIS OWN PERSONAL GOALS BEYOND THOSE OF OCTAVIAN. PLAYED BY ALEX WYNDHAM. ANYTHG THAT MOV: HE WAS BISEXUAL REAL LIFE AND IS IMPLIED TO BE FTG THIS TROPE VERY WELL THE SERI, THOUGH WE NEVER ACTUALLY SEE HIM BED WH ANYONE. NON-ACTN GUY: WHILE AGRIPPA LEADS OCTAVIAN'S ARMI THE FIELD, MAECENAS FIGHTS OCTAVIAN'S BATTL ON A DIFFERENT SCENE. BASILLY HE NS THE WHOLE PR MACHE. SLEAZY POLICIAN: TAK FULL PART OCTAVIAN'S RPT SCHEM. THE SMART GUY: CAN HOLD HIS OWN AGAST OCTAVIAN. TOKEN EVIL TEAMMATE: IS THE LEAST MORALLY SCPULO OF THE THREE. HE ALSO ANIZ A ROBBERY WHICH GO WRONG WHEN MIMEO KEEPS THE GOLD. TE COMPANNS: WH AGRIPPA AND OCTAVIAN.CASTORHEAD SLAVE OF THE JULII HOEHOLD. PLAYED BY MANEDI ALIQUO. A'T TOO PROUD TO BEG: GROVELS FOR MERCY AFTER HE ADVERTENTLY LETS A WOULD-BE ASSASS TO THE HOE, AND ONLY P GELDG BEE ATIA BELIEV THAT NUCHS ARE NOT FASHNABLE AT THE MOMENT. PERCSIVE THERAPY: ATIA IS SHOWN WHIPPG HIM, NOT APPARENTLY BEE HE'S DONE ANYTHG WRONG, BUT JT TO LET OFF SOME STEAM. UNDYG LOYALTY: THOUGH HE'S NEVER ACTUALLY PUT TO THE TT, SO HE ULD HAVE JT BEEN DIPLOMATIC.ATIA: AND THEN YOU MT KILL YOURSELF. YOUR SURVIVAL WOULD BE MOST UNSAVORY.CASTOR: I WOULD NOT DREAM OF LIVG, DOMA.MELAAN OLD FEMALE SLAVE TO THE JULII, WORKG MOSTLY AS A HANDMAIN TO ATIA. PLAYED BY LYDIA BNDI. EVIL OLD FOLKS: IN AN UNQUTNG SERVANT OF HER MISTRS' SCHEM. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: AS JAD AND ACCTOMED TO HER MISTRS' CETLY SH SHOWN TO BE EXTREMELY DISTURBED AND HORRIFIED BY SERVILIAS SCREAMS AS SH TORTURED BY ATIAS MEN. HAPPS SLAVERY: VERY VOTED TO ATIA. NJA MAID: WHEN ANTONY STRIK HER MISTRS, SHE QUICKLY PULLS A KNIFE ON HIM. ANTONY IS NAKED AND UNARMED, SO DON'T DISPUTE THE POT. UNDYG LOYALTY: WOULD KILL (AND DIE) FOR HER MISTRS.GLABITHE FIRST HBAND OF OCTAVIA. PLAYED BY ROBERTO PURVIS. BUY THEM OFF: TRI TO DO THIS TO TIMON, WHO UNFORTUNATELY IS MORE LOYAL TO ATIA. HAPPILY MARRIED: TO OCTAVIA, UNTIL ATIA FORC A DIVORCE ON THEM SO HER DGHTER EE TO MARRY POMPEII. IT'S ALL FOR NOTHG AS POMPEY WAS NEVER TERTED GOG THROUGH WH , MARRYG THE DGHTER OF A SENATOR OPPOSED TO CAAR STEAD. MURR THE HYPOTENE: EVEN AFTER POMPEY MARRI, ATIA REF TO ALLOW OCTAVIA TO GO BACK TO GLABI, SO HER DGHTER WILL BE EE TO MARRY SOMEONE ELSE. WHEN SHE DISVERS THAT HER DGHTER IS SECRETLY VISG GLABI, SHE SENDS TIMON TO MURR HIM. MAKE IT LOOK LIKE AN ACCINT: OR RATHER A RANDOM ACT OF VLENCE DURG A TIME OF CIVIL WAR. PET THE DOG: ASKS FOR HIS SLAV TO BE SPARED, BUT HIS KILLER HAS ORRS TO LEAVE NO WNS. JULIADGHTER OF CAAR AND THE PREV WIFE OF POMPEY. DEATH BY CHILDBIRTH MORALY CHA: JULIA WAS THE ONLY WHO ULD KEEP THE PEACE BETWEEN FATHER AND HER HBAND. EVERYTHG FALLS APART AFTER SHE DI. THIS IS TTH TELEVISN. PERFECTLY ARRANGED MARRIAGE: THOUGH SHE AND POMPEY MARRIED AS AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN CAAR AND POMPEY, THEY EVENTUALLY FELL LOVE OR AT LEAST GREW TO RE FOR EACH OTHER. PLOT-TRIGGERG DEATH: JULIA'S ATH ACCELERAT THE Y OF CAAR AND POMPEII'S IENDSHIP.    JUNII HOEHOLD MARC JUNI BT"ONLY TYRANTS NEED WORRY ABOUT TYRANT KILLERS."A QUIET AND AWKWARD YOUNG PATRICIAN TORN BETWEEN DOG WHAT HE BELIEV 'S RIGHT AND WHAT OTHERS EXPECT OF HIM - PARTICULARLY HIS MOTHER SERVILIA AND HIS PARENTAL SUBSTUTE, JULI CAAR. PLAYED BY TOBIAS MENZI. THE ALHOLIC: HS THE JAR THE SEND SEASON. APOLOGETIC ATTACKER: LOOKS TO BE QUE REMORSEFUL BEFORE LIVERG THE KILLG BLOW TO CAAR CROUCHG MORON, HIDN BADASS: STARTS OFF IGNORANT AND UNTERTED POLICS BUT WHEN PHED TOO FAR HE PROV HIMSELF TO BE HANDY WH A KNIFE AND PABLE OF LEADG AN ARMY TO BATTLE. CULTURE CLASH: WHILE TRYG TO REC MEN FOR A MPAIGN AGAST OCTAVIAN HE THE FACT THAT HE WAS THE MAN THAT GAVE THE LAST STAB THAT KILLED CAAR AS A BADASS BOAST ORR TO IMPRS SOME ANATOLIAN PRC AND MAKE THEM AGREE TO PROVI HIS ARMY. THEY ARE DISGTED STEAD, FDG THAT KILLG AN ALREADY JURED MAN THAT N'T FEND HIMSELF IS WARDLY AND SHAMEFUL. DEADPAN SNARKER: ONE OF HIS TRAMARKS. DEFIANT TO THE END: BT FAC OFF BY HIMSELF AGAST AN ADVANCG ARMY. HE IS OVERWHELMED BUT NOWHERE DO HE SHOW FEAR. DID NOT THK THIS THROUGH: BT AND THE OTHER NSPIRATORS WERE APPOTED BY CAAR, BUT PRENTG HIM AS A TYRANT AND HIS MURR AS A TYRANNICI WOULD MAKE ALL HIS EDICTS AND APPOTMENTS NULL AND VOID, AND THE NSPIRATORS WOULD LOSE ALL THEIR POWER. BT IS TH UNABLE TO JTIFY CAAR'S ATH TO THE PEOPLE SO THEY TURN AGAST HIM. DU, WHERE'S MY RPECT?: AFTER TELLG SOME ANATOLIAN NOBL OF HIM ALG THE ATH BLOW AGAST CAAR, EXPECTG TO BE HAILED AS A HERO AGAST TYRANNY, HE IS PROMPTLY LGHED AT BY THE NOBL AND LABELED A WARD FOR KILLG A MAN WHO WAS ALREADY FATALLY WOUND. ET TU, BTE?: HE WAS THE PERPETRATOR OF THIS TROPE TOWARDS CAAR, THOUGH THE LE IS NEVER ED (EXCEPT BY HIM TOWARDS HIS OWN MOTHER). FACE DEATH WH DIGNY: ALSO A DYG MOMENT OF AWOME AND AN IRONIC ECHO TO HOW CAAR DIED. FAY BS: RELUCTANTLY ENTERS POLICS, WHICH HAS BEEN THE PLAYFIELD OF THE JUNII FOR THE LAST 500 YEARS. A FATHER TO HIS MEN: INVOK THIS WHILE ON THE MARCH TO PHILIPPI; WHILE CASSI SPENDS HIS TIME READG SUPPLY REPORTS AND PLAG ABOUT THE SUATN, BT PREFERS TO WHILE AWAY THE MARCH TALKG AND GETTG IENDLY WH THE SOLDIERS.BT: [REGARDG SOLDIERS] THEY'RE NOT SUCH A BAD LOT, ONCE YOU GET TO KNOW THEM. FOIL: BT LOV CAAR BUT HAT HIS POLICS. GENERATN XEROX: HIS ANCTOR TABLISHED THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AFTER KILLG ROME'S TYRANNIL KG. FOR THIS REASON HIS MOTHER AND THE OTHER NSPIRATORS ARE PRSURG HIM TO TURN AGAST CAAR, ORR TO PRENT HIS ATH AS THE OVERTHROW OF A TYRANT. BT RISTS FOR A WHILE BUT CAAR TOO IS NERVO ABOUT HIS PAST AND TRI TO HAVE HIM SENT ELSEWHERE — PROV THE FAL STRAW. HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH CASSI. HONOR BEFORE REASON: FORCIBLY REJECTS THE IA OF POISONG CAAR AND ORRS THAT MARC ANTONY NOT BE KILLED (THOUGH THE NSPIRATORS TRY BEHD HIS BACK). WHEN ANTONY TURNS UP AT HIS HOE TO ARRANGE A TCE AND EVERYONE ELSE ARGU THAT WOULD BE SAFER TO KILL HIM ON THE SPOT, HE REF TO VLATE SACRED HOSPALY. IDLE RICH: AT THE START OF THE SERI, HE'S A PATRICIAN WH LTLE UNRSTANDG OR TERT POLICS, WHICH IS A BLEMISH ON THE JUNII FAY NAME. IGNORED EPIPHANY: SORT OF. IN LATE SEASON ONE HE FEELS BETRAYED BY CAAR AND GIV TO HIS MOTHER, GOG ALONG WH THE PLOT TO KILL THE DICTATOR. HE GO THROUGH WH , BUT THEN ANTONY AND THEY SHARE A LOOK WHERE BT' GUILT IS WRTEN ALL OVER HIS FACE. HE THEN CRI OUT AGONY OVER WHAT HE'S DONE. HOWEVER HE SEEMS TO GET OVER RATHER FAST, AND STAYS ALLIED TO CASSI TO THE VERY END. IRONIC ECHO: "YOU TOO, MOTHER?" WHEN SERVILIA SUGGTS HE SHOULD JO POMPEY'S SI. IN THE SAME SCENE HE EXPLAS TO HIS MOTHER THAT CAAR MAY TAKE ROME BUT EVENTUALLY SOME AMB MAN WOULD KILL HIM... IT HAS BEEN AN HONOR: INVOK THIS WHEN ADDRSG THE SURVIVORS OF HIS ARMY AFTER HIS FEAT AT THE BATTLE OF PHILIPPI, BEFORE TELLG THEM TO SAVE THEMSELV.BT: IT HAS BEEN AN HONOUR AND A PRIVILEGE LEADG YOU, AND I AM SORRY WE ULD NOT DO BETTER. KARMIC DEATH: AT PHILIPPI, HE IS SURROUND BY A REGIMENT OF CAAR'S VETERANS AND STABBED TO ATH A MANNER LIBERATELY REMISCENT OF THE ASSASSATN. MALE FRONTAL NUDY: HILARLY BEME MUCH MORE POPULAR WH THE FANBASE AFTER HE TOOK A NAKED SWIM SEASON TWO. MISTREATMENT-INDUCED BETRAYAL: WHEN CAAR APPOTS HIM ERNOR OF MACEDONIA, BT DON'T TAKE BEG REASSIGNED TO ANTARCTI AND THE PERCEIVED MISTST WELL, WHICH LEADS TO HIM JOG THE NJURATN AGAST CAAR. MOMMA'S BOY: IS VASTATED BY SERVILIA'S REJECTN OF HIM AFTER HE RETURNS TO ROME AND REF TO GO ALONG WH HER SCHEM. MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?: HIS SPERATN AFTER CAAR'S ASSASSATN IS DOWNRIGHT HEARTBREAKG. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: OPENLY STAT TO CAAR THAT HE REGARDS HIM AS HIS FATHER. NEVER FOUND THE BODY: BT'S BODY LAY AMONG OTHER SOLDIERS. THE ONLY THG THAT DIT HIS INTY IS HIS RG BUT THAT GETS STOLEN BY A SVENGER. RIGHT BEHD ME: HAPPENS TO HIM "PHARSAL" WHILE SULTG POMPEY. HE DON'T MD. TRAGIC HERO: IS BASILLY ED AS A PAWN BY HIS OWN MOTHER, WHOSE TE MOTIVE IS NOT PREVENTG A TYRANNY BUT AVENGG HER OWN REJECTN BY CAAR. UNWTG PAWN: IN HIS TRODUCTORY SCENE, CAAR IS G HIM TO NVEY FALSE RMATN TO POMPEY THAT HIS LEGNS ARE ON THE VERGE OF MUTY, SO AS TO APPEAR WEAK AND PROVOKE THE POMPEY FACTN TO STRIKG FIRST. "WELL DONE, SON" GUY: TOWARDS BOTH CAAR AND HIS MOTHER. WHY DON'T YOU JT SHOOT HIM?: REJECTS SAFER ALTERNATIV TO KILLG CAAR LIKE POISON OR ATTACKG HIM HIS SLEEP, BEE SUCH A TYRANNICI IS NOT JT A MON MURR BUT AN HONORABLE ACT.SERVILIA OF THE JUNII"GODS OF THE JUNII, WH THIS OFFERG I ASK YOU TO SUMMON TYCHE, MEGAERA AND NEMIS, SO THAT THEY WNS THIS CURSE. BY THE SPIRS OF MY ANCTORS, I CURSE GAI JULI CAAR. LET HIS PENIS WHER. LET HIS BON CRACK. LET HIM SEE HIS LEGNS DROWN THEIR OWN BLOOD. GODS OF THE FERNO, I OFFER TO YOU HIS LIMBS, HIS HEAD, HIS MOUTH, HIS BREATH, HIS SPEECH, HIS HANDS, HIS LIVER, HIS HEART, HIS STOMACH. GODS OF THE FERNO, LET ME SEE HIM SUFFER EPLY, AND I WILL REJOICE AND SACRIFICE TO YOU."BT' MOTHER AND LONG TIME MISTRS TO JULI CAAR. SERVILIA IS A BTER AND EVIL WOMAN, BUT HER DANGERONS ALWAYS FALLS ONE LEVEL SHORT OF HER MA RIVAL, ATIA OF THE JULII.PLAYED BY LDSAY DUNN. ANTAGONIST MOURNG: IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY, WHEN HER SON RMS HER THAT CAAR IS AD SHE SHEDS A SGLE TEAR. SHE THEN TURNS UP WIDOW'S WEEDS TO VIEW HIS BODY, SPE BEG SPAT ON BY HIS WIDOW. WHEN SHE VIEWS THE BODY HOWEVER, HER EXPRSN IS REFULLY MASKED SO WE DON'T KNOW IF SHE'S HAPPY OR REGRETFUL. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: PLAYS THE POOR VICTIM VERY WELL BUT OFTEN IS JT AS VIC AND MANIPULATIVE AS HER ENEMI. COMPOSE CHARACTER: TAK TRAS OM PORCIA CATONIS, BT' WIFE WHO IS OMTED THE SHOW. COLD-BLOOD TORTURE: IS SUBJECTED TO THIS AT THE HANDS OF ATIA. CURSE: THROWS A BUNCH AT CAAR AND ATIA. DISPROPORTNATE RETRIBUTN: CAAR ENDS HIS RELATNSHIP WH HER FOR POLIL REASONS, BTALLY STRIKG HER WHEN SHE PROTTS HIS MOTIV. IN PAYBACK SHE DO EVERYTHG SHE N TO ENGEER THE ATH OF THE LER OF THE ENTIRE ROMAN EMPIRE, PLUNGG TO CIVIL WAR. DPE HER CLAIMS TO BE STOPPG A WOULD-BE TYRANT, SHE'S ENTIRELY MOTIVATED BY PERSONAL VENGEANCE. DRIVEN TO SUICI: AS A THANATOS GAMB. DYG CURSE: THROWS TO ATIA DURG HER LAST RANT. DYG MOMENT OF AWOME: AS ANTONY PUTS , NOW THAT'S AN EX. DEFIANT TO THE END: WHEN KIDNAPPED BY ATIA SEASON 2 AND FACED WH THE CERTAY OF ATH SERVILIA DONT SHOW ANY FEAR, EVEN WHEN ATIA REVEALS SH PLANNG TO HAVE HER TORTURED AND RAPED BEFOREHAND. EVEN AFTER HOURS OF AGONIZG TORTURE HER RPONCE TO ATIA MANDG SHE BEG FOR ATH IS TO SP HER FACE. EVIL VERS EVIL: HER NFLICT WH ATIA. HYPOCRE: SHE REF TO LEAVE ROME WH HER SON BT, KNOWG THAT CAAR IS RETURNG TO HER AS WELL. HOWEVER WHEN BT RETURNS TO ROME HAVG ACCEPTED CAAR'S PARDON, SHE TREATS HIM WH NTEMPT BEE SHE NOW HAT CAAR. LOVE RUS THE REALM: CAAR LAYS CSHG POMPEY'S FORC TO DALLY ROME WH HER. ATIA GETS WD OF THIS AND HAS HER MNS START A MPAIGN OF OBSCENE GRAFFI MOCKG THEIR RELATNSHIP, FORCG CAAR TO BREAK UP WH HER AND SETTG THE TRAGIC EVENTS MOTN. MANIPULATIVE BCH: THOUGH NOT QUE ON PAR WH ATIA. THE MISTRS: TO CAAR. MY BELOVED SMOTHER: TO BT. HISTORIL VILLA UPGRA: MUCH LIKE ATIA. AT LEAST THE HISTORIL CHARACTER WAS REALLY VOLVED CAAR'S MURR, IF ONLY CINTALLY. NICE JOB FIXG IT, VILLA: HER SCHEM E THE ATH OF HER OWN SON, AND ONLY ENSURE THAT WORSE TYRANTS THAN CAAR E TO LE. THE RIVAL: TO ATIA. SMUG SNAKE: ENGAG EVIL GLOATG TO ATIA BY PERSONALLY RMG HER OF CAAR'S ATH. THANATOS GAMB / TAKG YOU WH ME: CERTALY THOUGHT SHE WAS PULLG ONE, AS SHE KILLED HERSELF AS A HUMAN SACRIFICE TO CURSE ATIA. AND ATIA'S FORTUN DO TAKE A NOSEDIVE AFTER THAT... TRMATIC HAIRCUT / SHAMEFUL STRIP: SHE'S ATTACKED ON THE STREET BY TIMEON'S THUGS AND STRIPPED NAKED, WHILE A VEILED FIGURE (LIKELY ATIA HERSELF) CUTS OFF HER HAIR, RETALIATN FOR GETTG OCTAVIA TO SCE OCTAVIAN. VILLAO BSOD: FOLLOWG BT' ATH. WICKED WCH: SHE CERTALY KNOWS CREEPY RUALS, BUT HAS NO MAGIC POWERS AT ALL. OR DO SHE? WOMAN SRNED: SO VERY MUCH. JT READ THAT QUOTE. WORTHY OPPONENT: ATIA'S FAL WORDS ON THE SERI ACKNOWLEDGE HER AS THIS.CATO THE YOUNGER"AH, SO FACT THIS IS NOT A HUIATG FEAT AT ALL, BUT A RARE SPECI OF VICTORY!"A STUBBORN, STNCH TRADNALIST SENATOR AND FENR OF THE REPUBLIC, AND AS A RULT, A CLARED ENEMY OF CAAR. ALSO HALF-BROTHER TO SERVILIA AND UNCLE TO BT. PLAYED BY KARL JOHNSON. AGE LIFT: THE REAL LIFE CATO WAS ACTUALLY YOUNGER THAN CAAR. COMMANR CONTRARIAN: MAK A REER OUT OF . DEADPAN SNARKER: JT SEE HIS QUOTE ABOVE! DELIBERATE VALU DISSONANCE: WE MT SAVE THE REPUBLIC BY MAKG SURE THOSE DIRTY PLEBS DON'T GET THEIR HANDS ON THE ERNMENT! DEMOCRACY IS BAD: ONE OF HIS BIGGT PROBLEMS WH CAAR. DRIVEN TO SUICI: STABS HIMSELF WH A BREAD KNIFE. THE EEYORE: YOU N ALWAYS UNT ON CATO TO SPEAK NEGATIVELY, PECIALLY WHEN MATTERS ARE AT THEIR WORST. HE MA THIS CLEAR TO SCIP AS A SHORT SHUT UP, KIRK! SPEECH.SCIP: CHEER UP, WE LIVE. WE LIVE AND WHERE THERE'S LIFE, THERE'S HOPE.CATO: I'M AAID IF WE'VE DONE ANYTHG OLD IEND, WE'VE DISPROVED THAT PROVERB. GMPY OLD MAN: OFTEN SHOWN THROUGH SNARK. HEROIC BSOD: AFTER LOSG THE BATTLE OF THAPS, HE KILLS HIMSELF AS HE NO LONGER BELIEV THAT VICTORY IS POSSIBLE, YET IS UNWILLG TO SUBM TO CAAR. LIMED WARDROBE: STANDS OUT AMONG THE SENATE BY WEARG ALWAYS A SIMPLE BLACK TOGA. THE ONLY TIME HE AVERTS THIS IS WHEN PUTTG ON ARMOUR. TOXIC FRIEND INFLUENCE: CATO NSTANTLY GIV POMPEY BAD ADVICE.GAI CASSI LONG"TH EVER FOR TYRANTS!"ANOTHER FELLOW SENATOR AND CLOSE IEND OF BT. HE MASTERMDS CAAR'S ASSASSATN.PLAYED BY GUY HENRY. CASSANDRA TTH: WARNS BT THAT ANTONY IS TOO DANGERO TO LIVE AND MT BE KILLED REGARDLS OF HONOR. BT REF TO LISTEN AND ANTONY SOON RO THE PEOPLE AGAST THEM, THEN FEATS THEIR FORC THE SUBSEQUENT CIVIL WAR. FATAL FAY PHOTO: OR "FATAL PROMISE OF A BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR NEXT YEAR". HETEROSEXUAL LIFE-PARTNERS: WH BT. IN REAL LIFE, PART OF THEIR ALLIANCE WAS CEMENTED ON THE FACT THAT CASSI WAS MARRIED TO BT' SISTER, BUT THIS IS NOT MENTNED THE SHOW. RICH BCH: BELIEV THE SENATE SHOULD BE RTRICTED TO WEALTHY ROMANS. WH CAAR PROMOTG MONERS AND FOREIGNERS SO AS TO LOAD THE SENATE WH HIS OWN LACKEYS, HE BELIEV THE PATRICIAN CLASS WILL SOON BE POWERLS. TOXIC FRIEND INFLUENCE: TURNS BT AGAST CAAR.ELENIA SLAVE PROPERTY OF SERVILIA. PLAYED BY SUZANNE BERTISH. HAPPS SLAVERY: TO SERVILIA, WILLGLY ASSISTG HER HER VENTTA AGAST CAAR. SHIPPER ON DECK: ASSUR SERVILIA THAT CAAR TLY LOV HER UNTIL HE MONSTRAT OTHERWISE. TOGETHER DEATH: AFTER HIS MISTRS KILLS HERSELF AS A HUMAN SACRIFICE, SHE WILLGLY FOLLOWS SU. UNDYG LOYALTY: TO THE POT OF MTG SUICI AFTER HER MISTRS DO.     POMPEII HOEHOLD GNAS POMPEY MAGN"IT SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE TO LOSE. THAT IS ALWAYS A BAD SIGN."ONCE A MIGHTY NQUEROR AND HERO OF THE REPUBLIC, POMPEY IS A JAD CONSUL OF ROME, LIVG MOSTLY ON PAST GLORI BY THE TIME THE SHOW STARTS. WHEN CAAR TRI TO SEIZE POWER HE SIS WH THE SENATE AGAST HIM. PLAYED BY KENH CRANHAM. ALWAYS SOMEONE BETTER: HE'S A GREAT GENERAL HIS OWN RIGHT BUT ULTIMATELY N'T HOLD A NDLE TO CAAR. THIS BOTHERS HIM A LOT. ARRANGED MARRIAGE: HIS MARRIAGE TO JULIA, DGHTER OF CAAR, IS SPECIFILLY POTED AS THE ONLY THG THAT MAK THE TWO GET ALONG. HER DEATH BY CHILDBIRTH SETS THE SHOW MOTN. LATER, AN ATTEMPT TO SOLVE THEIR NFLICT BY MAKG HIM MARRY OCTAVIA FALLS THROUGH. THE CHAS OF COMMANDG: AFTER A SLAVE BRGS POMPEY A MSAGE THAT CAAR HAS REJECTED HIS TERMS, HE'S FACED WH A CISN: SHOULD HE FIGHT OR FLEE? POMPEY THEN TALKS OF HOW ENV HE IS OF THE SLAVE, WHO HAS ALL HIS CISNS MA FOR HIM. COMBAT PRAGMATIST: POMPEY ULD HAVE BEATEN CAAR HAD HE STUCK TO HIS ORIGAL STRATEGY OF WAG HIM OUT UNTIL CAAR'S ARMY NS OUT OF SUPPLI. INSTEAD, HE IS NVCED TO ATTACK HIM HEAD-ON. DEPATN PRENTATN: GETS HIS HEAD ON A PLATE OFFERED TO CAAR BY THE EGYPTIANS, WHO WISH TO GRATIATE THEMSELV WH HIM. CAAR IS SUPREMELY PISSED. DIRTY OLD MAN: THE MARRIAGE WAS NCELLED, BUT HE MA E OF HIS "RIGHTS" WH OCTAVIA ANYWAY. HE'S ALSO SHOWN LEERG AT A RATHER LEWD STAGE PLAY. DUE TO THE DEAD: THE EGYPTIAN KG PTOLMEY XV TELLS CAAR THAT HE PLANNED TO TURN POMPEY'S RPSE TO A MARTE, BUT THE PLANS FELL THROUGH, LEAVG ONLY HIS PRERVED HEAD TO BE PRENTED. CIRCUMSTANC MAKE DIFFICULT TO KNOW IF HIS MISTERS WERE LYG WHEN THEY CLAIM POMPEY'S BODY WAS CREMATED WH FULL HONORS, AND CAAR TAK PAS TO ENSURE HIS HEAD IS AT LEAST SHOWN GIVEN A PROPER FUNERAL. ET TU, BTE?: HE GETS OFFED BY A FORMER SOLDIER OF HIS, NOW WORKG AS A MERCENARY FOR THE EGYPTIANS. FAY-UNIENDLY DEATH: POMPEY IS STABBED AND PATED ONT OF HIS FAY. GLORY DAYS: CLGS TO HIS. GONE HORRIBLY WRONG: HE'S BEHD THE IA OF THE MOTN TO CLARE CAAR AN ENEMY OF THE REPUBLIC, BUT DON'T WANT TO BE ACTUALLY PASSED AS 'S ONLY MEANT AS A WARNG TO CAAR TO MAKE CLEAR HIS POLIL ISOLATN. IT DO PASS WHEN ANTONY IS NOT ABLE TO VETO , TH FORCG CAAR TO CIVIL WAR. GREEN-EYED MONSTER: HE IS JEALO OF CAAR FOR "STEALG THE LOVE OF THE PEOPLE" OM HIM. HEROIC BSOD: AFTER LOSG THE BATTLE OF PHARSAL. A LEGNARY FDS HIM MUTTERG TO HIMSELF, HE DON'T REACT AT THE NEWS OF CAAR'S MEN BEARG DOWN ON THEM, AND DON'T APPEAR TO HAVE ANY FIGHT LEFT HIM WHATSOEVER: WHEN HIS SERVANTS ABANDON HIM AND HIS FAY HE DON'T EVEN BOTHER TO PROTT. HUIATN CONGA: AFTER LOSG AT PHARSAL THE SENATE SIST ON TRAVELG SEPARATELY TO EGYPT, HIS SOLDIERS SERT HIM AND HE'S FORCED TO RELY ON A GREEK GUI WHO TRI TO SELL HIM OUT. FORTUNATELY VOREN IS AN HONOR BEFORE REASON TYPE, AND SEEG POMPEY IS A BEATEN MAN HE ELECTS NOT TO TURN HIM . POMPEY THEN P TO EGYPT ONLY TO BE KILLED BY A FORMER CENTURN OF HIS. KG INGNO: AFTER LOSG THE BATTLE OF PHARSAL, HE P DISGUISED AS A GREEK TRAR. THE MAGNIFICENT: THE LAST PART OF HIS NAME MEANS "THE GREAT." MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY: TELLS CICERO TO EHER GIVE HIM THE SUPPORT OF THE MORATE SENATORS, OR HE'LL PACK UP HIS LEGNS AND SAIL FOR SPA, LEAVG THEM AT THE MERCY OF CAAR. RETIRED BADASS: MORE OR LS. HE HASN'T RETIRED EVERYTHG BUT HE'S NO LONGER LEADG ARMI AT THE START. THAT CHANG. THIRD-PERSON PERSON: IN TWO NOTABLE STANC, UALLY TO HIGHLIGHT THE GLORY OF HIS PAST AND THE SECURY OF HIS LEGACY AGAST CAAR'S RISG STAR. ONE (WHICH IS PRUMABLY HOW HE UALLY DO ) IS TO VOKE THAT HE IS NOT SURRENRG TO CAAR SPE HIS TACTIL DISADVANTAGE (PECIALLY AS IS FACT SOUND STRATEGY). THIS DO, HOWEVER, KD OF HELPS HIGHLIGHT HOW HE'S MORE OF A SMUG SNAKE PAST HIS PRIME, THAT HE N'T EVEN GET THE SENATORS TO PUT THEIR FAH HIM. THIS IS NOT SURRENDER! POMPEY MAGNUS DOES NOT SURRENDER. THE SEND IS MORE PLAYED FOR DRAMA, AS HE EVENTUALLY RELENTS TO VOREN TELLG HOW THE BATTLE OF PHARSAL WENT DOWN. NOTABLY, SPE CLAIMG TO BE A GREEK TRAR, HE'S BEE SO JECTED HE N'T EVEN MATA HIS ALIBI (SLIPPG TO FIRST PERSON). HIS REFERENCE TO "POMPEY MAGN" THIRD PERSON HERE SOUNDS MORE LIKE HE DON'T EVEN NSIR HIMSELF WORTHY OF THE NAME ANYMORE. THE PATHOS OF NVC VOREN TO HAVE MERCY AND LET HIM GO. LUCI VOREN: SURELY POMPEY HAD CAAR AT GREATER DISADVANTAGE. POMPEY MAGN: HE DID... HE DID. IT DIDN'T SEEM POSSIBLE TO LOSE. THAT'S ALWAYS A BAD SIGN. [POMPEY BEGS TO E A STICK TO DRAW THE BATTLEFIELD THE DIRT] THE BATTLEFIELD WAS ON A PLA BY A RIVER AT THE FOOT OF SOME LOW HILLS. LIKE THIS, YOU SEE. THE L MET HERE. MY MEN HELD THEIR GROUND WELL, SO I SENT MY HORS AT HIS RIGHT FLANK. WHICH IS PERFECTLY RRECT, YOU'LL AGREE. LUCI VOREN: I DO. POMPEY MAGN: ONLY THE WARDS WERE REPULSED. REPULSED BY A SGLE HORT OF RERV. TURNED AND FLED, 200 HORS. CRASHED DIRECTLY TO MY LEFT FLANK. ROLLED UP MY LE LIKE A RPET. PUT THE WHOLE DAMN ARMY TO FLIGHT. AND HERE I AM. THAT'S HOW POMPEY MAGN WAS FEATED. THAT'S HOW THE REPUBLIC DIED. UNRTIMATG BADASSERY: CAAR THKS HE'S PAST , BUT POMPEII SHOWS HE'S STILL GOT A FEW TRICKS UP HIS SLEEVE AND CLOSE TO FEATG CAAR GREECE. UNFORTUNATELY HIS STRATEGIC SKILL ISN'T AS GOOD AS CAAR'S TACTIL SKILL ON THE BATTLEFIELD.QUT VALERI POMPEY"KILL HIM TOO, WHAT DO MATTER?"POMPEY'S SON AND A ARY LEAR THE SENATE FACTN.PLAYED BY RICK WARN. COMPOSE CHARACTER: HE IS LOOSELY BASED ON POMPEY'S TWO HISTORIL SONS, GNAS POMPEY THE YOUNGER AND SEXT POMPEY. DEADLY HUG: AFTER SEEG BT PUBLICLY EMBRACE ANTONY, HE'S NFED WHEN ANTONY MAK A SHOW OF APPROACHG HIM ALSO WH HAND OUTSTRETCHED IENDSHIP. UNTIL ANTONY CUTS HIS THROAT WH THE KNIFE HIDN HIS OTHER HAND. THE DRAGON: TO HIS FATHER, WHO SENDS HIM TO REVER THE MISSG TREASURY GOLD. UNFORTUNATELY HIS HIRED THUGS ARE LS THAN RELIABLE AND HE GETS PTURED BY PULLO AND VOREN. DROWNG MY SORROWS: BE ONE AFTER HIS FATHER'S ATH AND FEAT. HE QUICKLY BOUNC BACK AFTER SERVILIA TAK HIM TO HER HOEHOLD AND MAK HIM HER ALLY. HEROIC SEND WD: TURNS UP STARVG, DNK AND DISTRGHT OUTSI BT' HOE SEEKG SANCTUARY, AND WHEN THE SERVANTS THROW HIM OUT STARTS SHOUTG LOUDLY AT THE MAN HE THKS IS SI FOR MAKG PEACE WH CAAR. INSI IS SERVILIA, ALSO AT HER LOWT EBB AFTER HAVG BEEN HUIATED BY ATIA'S THUGS. SHE'S ABOUT TO ORR HE BE SENT AWAY WHEN SHE LISTENS TO WHAT QUT IS SHOUTG AND REALIS THAT HERE IS SOMEONE WHO HAT CAAR AS MUCH AS SHE DO. WHEN BT HOME HE FDS A SMUG QUT RINCE, HLY BATHED, FED, AND AN EAGER PARTICIPANT HIS MOTHER'S SCHEM. IN-SERI NICKNAME: "NEPTUNE'S SURGE". NO GOOD DEED GO UNPUNISHED: AFTER HE'S PTURED STEAD OF HOLDG QUT AS A HOSTAGE AGAST HIS FATHER, CAAR HAS HIM RELEASED AS A SIGN OF MAGNANIMY. ANTONY IS SO AGHAST HE'S REPRIMAND BY CAAR FOR SUBORDATN. HE BE ONE OF THE KEY NSPIRATORS CAAR'S ASSASSATN. OVERZEALO UNRLG: OR AT LEAST HE'S PASSED OFF AT THIS AFTER ATTEMPTG TO KILL MARC ANTONY. NO-ONE IS FOOLED, LEAST OF ALL ANTONY. REFUGE AUDACY: IN REVENGE FOR CAAR'S ATH AND AN EARLIER ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE, ANTONY LMLY WALKS UP TO HIM ON THE STREET AND CUTS HIS THROAT, LEAVG HIS THUGS GAPG NFN. TOKEN EVIL TEAMMATE: HAS NONE OF THE MORAL QUALMS OF BT, AND TRI TO ASSASSATE MARC ANTONY AGAST HIS DIRECT ORRS. TORTURE TECHNICIAN: SERV AS THIS FOR HIS FATHER.CORNELIASCIP'S DGHTER AND POMPEY'S SEND WIFE. THE PROMISE: THAT SHE AND HER FAY WILL RETURN. THEY NEVER DO. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOE?: SHE AND POMPEY'S CHILDREN ARE LAST SEEN WNSG HIM GETTG KILLED.    THE ROMAN UNRWORLD ERAST FULMEN"I TOOK YOUR CHILDREN PAYMENT FOR YOUR MANY SLIGHTS TO ME. I FUCKED THEM. THEN I KILLED THEM. AND THEN I THREW THEM THE RIVER."A THLS BSMAN WHO NTROLS ROME'S MOST POWERFUL CRIMAL GANG, THE AVENTE LLEGIUM, UNR A PRETENSE OF LEGALY.PLAYED BY LORN CRANCH. ALL DEVOURG BLACK HOLE LOAN SHARKS: THOUGH HE REF TO EXTEND CRED TO VOREN, CG THIS TROPE, HE HAS NO ISSUE WH G HIM AS A PAID ENFORCER TO LLECT HIS OWN BTS. ATTACK! ATTACK... RETREAT! RETREAT!: ERAST TURNS UP WH HIS GANG AT VOREN' HOE TO MURR HIM, ONLY TO FD CAAR'S PERSONAL GUARD STANDG OUTSI. HE BEATS A HASTY RETREAT. UNFORTUNATELY HE DON'T FET HIS GDGE AND RETURNS TO THE HOE AFTER HEARG OF CAAR'S ATH. BAD BOSS: ERAST IS FUR THAT VOREN SLAPPED HIS MAN, BEE ONLY HE IS ALLOWED TO CHASTISE HIS OWN MEN, WHICH HE PROMPTLY MONSTRAT BY BREAKG A VASE OVER THE MAN'S HEAD. DEPATN PRENTATN: AN ENRAGED VOREN CHOPS OFF HIS HEAD AND KEEPS AS A TROPHY. DISPROPORTNATE RETRIBUTN: VOREN SLAPS ONE OF HIS MEN, SO HE MANDS VOREN PUBLILLY SUBM TO HIM OR HE WILL KILL HIM, RAPE HIS WIFE AND DGHTERS, AND BURN DOWN HIS HOE. HE'S UNABLE TO RRY OUT HIS THREAT, BUT AFTER CAAR'S ATH HE RETURNS TO VOREN HOME TO GET REVENGE, ONLY TO FD HIS FAY THERE UNPROTECTED. ERAST HAS THEM SOLD TO SLAVERY. THE DON: RUL THE AVENTE LLEGIUM SEASON ONE. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: ERAST THREATENS TO DISJOT ANY OF HIS MEN WHO TAKE PART THE ANARCHY AFTER CAAR'S ATH, AS 'S SUPPOSED TO BE A TIME OF MOURNG FOR A NSUL OF ROME. HE LIVERS THIS THREAT WHILE A ROOM FULL OF HIS MEN DRKG AND WHORG."WE OBSERVE THE FUCKG CENCI!" FACE DEATH WH DIGNY: EVEN AFTER SEEG HOW VOREN AND PULLO HAVE MASSACRED ALL HIS MEN, ERAST DON'T LOSE NTROL TO HIS FEAR. HE TAK A DRK, TNTS VOREN OVER THE ATH OF HIS CHILDREN, THEN LMLY CLOS HIS EY FOR THE ATH BLOW. FX AFFABLY EVIL: HE'S TRODUCED AS THE GUT OF HONOR AT VOREN' FEAST TO ENSURE A SUCCSFUL BS, AND KEEPS UP THE FA OF A SUCCSFUL LOL BSMAN UNTIL HE ORRS VOREN TO BREAK A MAN'S HAND AND THEN CUT HIS THROAT. VOREN WALKS OUT ON HIS, WHICH ERAST TAK AS AN SULT TO HIS THORY. HORRIBLE JUDGE OF CHARACTER: ASSUM THE GRIM, STOIC VOREN WILL MAKE A EFUL ENFORCER, NOT UNRSTANDG HIS PRI AND HONOR. HE THEN UNRTIMAT JT HOW DANGERO VOREN AND PULLO ARE. VOREN TURN THKS ERAST IS JT A SUCCSFUL BSMAN WHO WANTS A BODYGUARD, UNTIL HE'S ASKED TO TORTURE AND KILL A MAN. IRONIC NAME: 'ERAST' MEANS 'LOVER' ANCIENT GREEK. I SHALL TNT YOU: REALISG HE'S ABOUT TO DIE, ERAST CLAIMS TO HAVE RAPED AND MURRED VOREN' CHILDREN. VOREN CUTS HIS HEAD OFF ON THE SPOT, WHICH WAS LIKELY WHAT HE TEND; BETTER A QUICK EXECUTN THAN BEG TORTURED TO ATH. IT'S ALSO A FAL ACT OF SPE, AS WE LATER DISVER THE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN MA A SLAVE. KNEEL BEFORE ZOD: ERAST ORRS VOREN TO KILL A BTOR WHO REF TO PAY UP. VOREN REF AND LEAV HIS ANISATN, WHICH ERAST TAK AS AN SULT. WHEN VOREN STOPS HIS THUGS OM KILLG AN BTED MAN ONT OF HIS SHOP (NOT FOR JT KILLG HIM, MD YOU), ERAST MANDS VOREN MAKE A PUBLIC APOLOGY AND KISS HIS FEET PUBLIC. IF VOREN REF HE'LL BE KILLED, BUT NOT BEFORE SEEG HIS WIFE AND DGHTERS RAPED AND HIS HOE BURNT TO THE GROUND. LEGIMATE BSMEN'S SOCIAL CLUB: AT VOREN' FEAST UPON OPENG HIS BS, NBE TRODUC HIM AS THE GUT OF HONOR, A BSMAN VOLVED OLIV, BUILDG, AND FIRE SURANCE. POLILLY INRRECT VILLA: FULMEN HAT SLAV AND FOREIGNERS.GAIA"I TOLD YOU I'M NOT A WHORE."A FORMER BROTHEL SUPERVISOR TASKED WH KEEPG THE CTOMERS ON LE, WHO IS HIRED BY VOREN AFTER HE TAK OVER ERAST FULMEN'S GANG. WHILE TECHNILLY A SLAVE, GAIA IS A TOUGH AND VDITIVE WOMAN THAT STOPS AT NOTHG TO GET WHAT SHE WANTS.PLAYED BY ZULEIKHA ROBSON. ACTN GIRL: CAN CERTALY HOLD HER OWN A FIGHT AND TAK PART A MOB WAR. BELLIGERENT SEXUAL TENSN: TRI WH VOREN, AND AFTER NOT GETTG A RPONSE, WH PULLO WH MORE SUCCS. CONVENIENTLY TIMED ATTACK OM BEHD: IN A DRAMATIC IRONY SHE'S FATALLY STABBED AFTER SAVG PULLO'S LIFE, ONLY TO BE STRANGLED BY HIM ON HER ATHBED. DEATHBED CONFSN: AFTER BEG WOUND BATTLE, SHE NFS TO PULLO THAT WAS HER WHO MURRED EIRENE. PULLO SUFFOT HER AND THROWS HER BODY THE RIVER. TO THE ANCIENT ROMANS, THIS WAS A WAY OF DAMNG SOMEONE. WHOUT PROPER FUNERAL R, THEIR SOUL WOULD BE UNABLE TO ENTER THE UNRWORLD AND THEY WOULD BE STUCK LIMBO FOR ALL ETERNY. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: SHE GENUELY LOV PULLO, AND HER DEATHBED CONFSN IS MOTIVATED AS MUCH BY GUILT OVER HOW SHE'S WRONGED HIM, AS FEAR OF RETRIBUTN OM THE GODS. MURR THE HYPOTENE: SHE KILLS THE HEAVILY PREGNANT EIRENE BY PUTTG AN ABORTIVE SOLUTN HER TEA AND REPLAC HER PULLO'S BED. "NOT IF THEY ENJOYED IT" RATNALIZATN: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PULLO TRI TO 'PUNISH' HER. QU YOUR WHG: TO PULLO ON HER ATHBED. THE RIVAL: TO EIRENE.SLEEPG WH THE BOSS--> VERONI: TO EIRENE'S BETTY.MASCI"THE TTH? THE TTH IS I HAVE KNOWN YOU AS A BROTHER. THE TTH IS THAT I SAVED YOUR LIFE AT GERIA. TOOK AN ARROW FOR . THE ARROW'S STILL THERE, THE TTH IS I'D DO AGA BROTHER. THE TTH IS THAT I'VE BEEN NOTHG BUT A GOOD SOLDIER TO YOU AND A GOOD FUCKG IEND. DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO PULLO. I'LL SEE YOU HAS."A FORMER LEGNARY OF THE THIRTEENTH. AFTER RETURNG OM GL, VOREN GETS HIM AND HIS OTHER RAS LANDS GERMANIA BUT MASCI LOS HIS NCSN PLAYG DICE. HE THEN RETURNS TO ROME AND JOS THE AVENTE GANG AFTER HEARG THAT VOREN HAS TAKEN OVER .PLAYED BY MICHAEL NARDONE. AND ZOIDBERG: VOREN MAK HIM THIRD--MAND BENEATH PULLO, MUCH TO HIS ANNOYANCE AS MASCI ED TO OUTRANK HIM."OH I GET , THIRD FUCKG MAN AND ALL THAT!" BASH BROTHERS: READ THE QUOTE. DON'T TELL MAMA: HE ASKS VOREN NOT TO TELL HIS FAY WHAT HE DO FOR A LIVG. EVERY MAN HAS HIS PRICE: SO HE WILL NVCE CAAR'S VETERANS TO ACCEPT LAND A FARAWAY PROVCE, VOREN OFFERS HIM A BRIBE. HE REF AT FIRST, BUT WHEN VOREN MAK CLEAR 'S AN OFFER YOU CAN'T REFE HE FOLDS. CAAR IS SURPRISED HE SOLD OUT SO CHEAPLY. THE GAMBLG ADDICT: HE WAS GIVEN LAND AFTER LEAVG THE ARMY LIKE ALL RETIRED SOLDIERS, BUT LOST GAMBLG. NO-RPECT GUY: IS LOYAL TO PULLO AND VOREN BUT HIS NEEDS ALWAYS PLAY SEND FIDDLE TO THEIR RELATNSHIP. HE ENDS THE SERI A CRIPPLE, THOUGH STILL A MEMBER OF THEIR GANG AND THE LEAR WHEN PULLO AND VOREN ARE AWAY. OLD FRIEND: TO PULLO AND VOREN. ROCK BOTTOM: BEG AN UNRWORLD ENFORCER IS AN IMPROVEMENT FOR HIM, AFTER LOSG HIS LAND TO HIS GAMBLG.VOREN: THIS ISN'T THE ARMY, BROTHER. WE HEAR — WE'RE PIMPS, KNIFEMEN, THIEV. YOU SURE YOU'RE SUNK SO LOW? MASCI: I WALKED HERE OM CAPUA. I SLEPT DCH. AND WHEN I GET HERE, THEY SAY A BLACK-HEARTED VILLA HAS TAKEN OVER THE AVENTE LLEGE. HE'S LEAGUE WH THE GODS BELOW, THEY SAY. AND HIS NAME IS LUCI VOREN. WELL I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, "MASCI, OLD BOY, YOUR LUCK HAS CHANGED.". UNDYG LOYALTY: TO VOREN AND PULLO. WRONGLY ACCED: AFTER THE AVENTE'S SECRETIVE AND ILLEGAL TRANSPORT OF GOLD FOR THE TRIUMVIRS GO AWRY AND THE GOLD IS TAKEN, THE NCLN IS THAT AN SI MAN MT HAVE REVEALED KNOWLEDGE OF THE MISSN, AND BOTH VOREN AND PULLO ACCE MASCI WHO WAS CHARGE OF SAID OPERATN. HE WAS NOCENT AND WAS ALMOST KILLED FOR .MEMMCAPTA OF THE CAELIANS GANG AND UNEASY ALLY TO VOREN. PLAYED BY DANIEL CERQUEIRA. BEARD OF BARBARISM: AFTER BEG LOCKED A GE AND STARVED. THE DOG B BACK: HE EVENTUALLY P HIS GE AND WOULD HAVE SUCCEED KILLG PULLO IF WEREN'T FOR GAIA. HUIATN CONGA: PULLO B OFF HIS TONGUE, KEEPS HIM A GE AND FEEDS HIM ON SCRAPS AS A MSAGE FOR OTHERS. LOY LOVERS ARE LOSERS: WHEN VOREN TO SEE HIM ABOUT THE THEFT OF HEROD'S GOLD, MEMM IS DISVERED A BACK ROOM TAKG A BLDFOLD AND NU FEMALE SLAVE OM BEHD. HE DON'T SEEM TO BE ENJOYG MUCH AND NEHER APPARENTLY IS SHE, AND WHEN HIS MEETG IS OVER HE DON'T EVEN GO BACK TO FISH OFF, PREFERRG TO S AND DRK WH HIS MEN. MANIPULATIVE BASTARD: MEMM HAS HIS MAN SCE ELR VORENA, THEN HE "DISVERS" THEM TOGETHER AND NVC HER TO SPY ON VOREN FOR HIM. SMUG SNAKE: UP TO THE MOMENT HE LOS HIS TONGUE. SPICLY SIAR SUBSTUTE: TO ERAST FULMEN.    OTHER ROMANS MARC TULLI CICERO"WHEN NONTED BY A HUNGRY WOLF, IS UNWISE TO GOAD THE BEAST, AS CATO WOULD HAVE DO. BUT IS EQUALLY UNWISE TO IMAGE THE SNARLG ANIMAL A IEND AND OFFER YOUR HAND, AS POMPEY DO."THE RENOWNED ROMAN POLICIAN, TELLECTUAL AND MASTER ORATOR, LEAR OF THE MORATE FACTN THE SENATE. CICERO DISTSTS CAAR'S AND LATER MARK ANTONY'S ACTNS BUT LACKS THE SPE (AND, TO BE FAIR, THE ARY MCLE) TO TAKE DIRECT ACTN AGAST THEM.PLAYED BY DAVID BAMBER. ARCH-ENEMY: TO MARK ANTONY. COMPELLG VOICE: THE ORATOR OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, AND ARGUABLY ONE OF THE GREATT PUBLIC SPEAKERS WHO HAS EVER LIVED. COWARDLY LN: HE'S A NON-ACTN GUY AND NOT PHYSILLY BRAVE, BUT THE END HE STANDS UP TO ANTONY AND FAC HIS ATH WH DIGNY. FACE DEATH WH DIGNY: VERY MUCH SO. ARGUABLY THE MOST DIGNIFIED ATH THE SERI, BEE HE SE G OM A LONG WAY OFF AND DON'T HATE TO DO THE RIGHT THG (I.E. WRE A LETTER TO BT AND CASSI WARNG THEM ABOUT ANTONY AND OCTAVIAN JOG FORC) RATHER THAN TRY TO PE. WHEN HIS KILLER ARRIV, HE DON'T PANIC; HIS MA EMOTN APPEARS TO BE REGRET THAT HE HAS TO DIE, BUT HE OFFERS HIS NECK TO THE SWORD AND EARNS THE RPECT OF HIS KILLER. FORHADOWG: MARK ANTONY THREATENS TO HAVE HIS HANDS CUT OFF AND NAILED TO THE SENATE'S DOORS. GUS WHAT HAPPENS YEARS LATER. GONE HORRIBLY WRONG: IS ONE OF THE CULPRS OF THE CIVIL WAR, AS HE SUPPORTS THE MOTN TO CLARE CAAR AN ENEMY OF THE REPUBLIC. IT WAS MEANT AS A POLIL BLUFF, BUT THE MOTN PASS AS ANTONY IS NOT ABLE TO VETO ONLY SANE MAN: A RARE MORATE AND REASONABLE FIGURE MOST OF THE TIME. PROFSNAL BUTT-KISSER: NOT THROUGH SYPHANCY BUT AS A SURVIVAL TACTIC. "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH: ONE OF THE GREAT MASTERS OF THIS TROPE. THE ONE THAT HE GIV MARK ANTONY IS AN EPIC TAKE THAT! AND QUE POSSIBLY ONE OF HIS BIGGT MOMENTS. SHOO THE DOG: TO HIS SLAV THE DAY OF HIS OWN MURR, SO THEY WON'T BE HURT. SLEAZY POLICIAN: HE TURNS UP TO PRAISE THE NSPIRATORS FOR KILLG CAAR, CLAIMG THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE ALLOWED HIM TO JO. BT POLELY IMPLI THAT HE MIGHT HAVE SUNG A DIFFERENT TUNE IF THEY HAD. THEN CICERO DISVERS THAT MARC ANTONY IS STILL ALIVE AND SUDNLY REALIS HE HAS URGENT BS THE UNTRY. AFTER PRAISG THEM A FAL TIME, HE GO TO LEAVE AND BUMPS TO ANTONY WHO HAS TURNED UP TO DISCS A TCE. EVERYONE ENJOYS HIS DISFURE. SMUG SNAKE: AS LEAR OF THE SENATE, HE OVERTIMAT HIS POWER AND GROSSLY UNRTIMAT OCTAVIAN'S. HE'S ALSO DISDAFUL TOWARDS ANTONY AND CAAR, BUT OFTEN ONLY BEHD THEIR BACKS. HE'S ALSO RATHER WEASELLY, PREFERRG TO REMA A NON-ACTN GUY WHILE OTHERS DO THE DIRTY WORK. WORTHY OPPONENT: CAAR RPECTS HIM, BUT THE FEELG IS NOT MUTUAL.METELL SCIP"WHAT A DREADFUL NOISE PLEBS MAKE WHEN THEY'RE HAPPY."A PROMENT GENERAL THE SENATE FACTN AND MEMBER OF THE FAMO SCIP FAY. HE BE POMPEY'S FATHER--LAW THE FIRST EPISO. PLAYED BY PL JSON. DRIVEN TO SUICI: HAS HIS THROAT CUT. THOSE TWO GUYS: IN A WAY, WH CATO.JOSTA"I'VE BEEN DISHONOURED!"A YOUNG PLEBEIAN WOMAN, DGHTER OF A RICH MERCHANT AND CLOSE IEND OF OCTAVIA. PLAYED BY CALA RUTHERFORD. BRALS BETY: COM OFF AS RATHER DZY MOST OF THE TIME. DEFILED FOREVER: STAT THIS AFTER HER RAPE, AND SHE'S FORCED TO MARRY LOWER-CLASS POS AS A RULT. HOWEVER SHE BOUNC BACK REMARKABLY. FALLEN PRCS: JOSTA'S PARENTS ARE KILLED AND THEIR MONEY STOLEN. FUNCTNAL ADDICT: SMOK OPIUM. GOG NATIVE: AFTER MOVG TO EGYPT SHE ADOPT THE LOL DRS AND TO LIKE . NOUVE RICHE: WHY ATIA HAT HER. SHE LOS HER FAI WEALTH THE PURGE YET THANKS TO HER HBAND'S GIFT FOR RPT ALS SHE QUICKLY HAS A LOT OF MONEY TO SPEND. PERFECTLY ARRANGED MARRIAGE: TO POS, ONCE HE'S GAED LIBERTY. SHE WEEPS ON HER WEDDG DAY BUT BY THE NEXT EPISO THEY SEEM VERY HAPPY TOGETHER. SOLE SURVIVOR: ATIA HAS HER ENTIRE FAY MURRED AND SHE SEXUALLY ASSLTED. ALL BEE SHE DON'T LIKE HER. TALKATIVE LOON: LOOKS LIKE THIS TO OCTAVIA AND ATIA AFTER A TIME LIVG EGYPT. UGLY GUY, HOT WIFE: IS MARRIED OFF TO POS.LEPIDA ROMAN GENERAL SENT BY THE SENATE TO FEAT ANTONY, ONLY TO HAVE HIS ENTIRE ARMY FECT TO HIM ON THE SPOT. HE THEN SWCH SIS TOO AND ENDS UP AS ANTONY'S SEND MAND. HE LATER BE THE LEAST POWERFUL OF THE TRIUMVIRATE FORMED WH ANTONY AND OCTAVIAN, BUT GETS AI FOR HIS TROUBL... FOR A WHILE. PLAYED BY RONAN VIBERT. BUTT-MONKEY: TO ANTONY AND OCTAVIAN. A FATHER TO HIS MEN: AVERTED; WHICH ANTONY SUGGTS IS WHY HIS TROOPS WERE SO WILLG TO FECT. GENERAL FAILURE: HIS ENTIRE ARMY FECTS TO ANTONY. ANTONY HOWEVER JT THIS TO -OPT HIM TO HIS SI. KICKED UPSTAIRS: GETS SENT OFF TO ERN THE PROVCE OF AI, FAR OM THE CENTER OF POWER ROME. NUMBER TWO: TO ANTONY AFTER FECTN. POLILLY INRRECT VILLA: LEPID HAT GLS. PUT ON A B: DISAPPEARS AFTER ANTONY AND OCTAVIAN GIVE HIM AI.THE NEWSREAR"THIS MONTH'S PUBLIC BREAD IS PROVID BY THE CAPOLE BROTHERHOOD OF MILLERS. THE BROTHERHOOD ONLY THE FT FLOUR: TE ROMAN BREAD FOR TE ROMANS."A PUBLIC SERVANT THAT CRI NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENTS AT THE FOM ONT OF THE ROMAN SENATE. PLAYED BY IAN MCNEICE. BOOK ENDS: HE APPEARS BOTH THE PILOT AND THE LAST EPISO MAKG THE SAME ANNOUNCEMENT, OFFERG A REWARD FOR A MISSG SLAVE, "NAWAY OR STOLEN". IT'S ED TO SHOW THAT SPE THE VAST HISTORIL CHANG HAPPENED OVER THE SPAN OF THE SERI, THE LIFE OF THE AVERAGE CIZEN REMAS THE SAME. CATCHPHRASE: EVEN HE GETS TIRED OF SAYG, "TE ROMAN BREAD, FOR TE ROMANS." THE CONSTANT: SURVIV ALL THE TURMOIL OF CIVIL WARS AND PUBLIC STRIFE. KENT BROCKMAN NEWS: IN HIS FENSE HIS SCRIPTS ARE WRTEN BY OTHERS. LARGE HAM: IN FAIRNS, 'S PART OF HIS JOB. WHENEVER HE FLAGS HIS EFFORTS, 'S ONLY BEE 'S BEEN A LONG DAY. MILKG THE GIANT COW: DO THIS MALY TO MAKE THE NEWS SEEM SLIGHTLY MORE TERTG. ALSO, ACCURATE FOR THE TIME AS THE HAND SIGNALS HE TO ACPANY HIS WORDS WOULD ED BE ED BY A MAN HIS OCCUPATN. MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG: HIS JOB NSISTS ON SCREAMG WHATEVER PROPAGANDA THE ERNMENT OF THE TIME HANDS TO HIM, AND CHANG AS WILDLY AND QUICKLY AS THE POSN OF THAT ERNMENT DO. HE NEVER QUTNS . NO NAME GIVEN PRODUCT PLACEMENT: ANOTHER NICE HISTORIL TOUCH. WRTEN BY THE WNERS: ALL THE NEWS HE READS. HE ALWAYS PHRAS WORDS TO MAKE SURE LISTENERS WILL KNOW WHO TO ROOT FOR.     EGYPTIANS QUEEN CLEOPATRA VII"I WILL HAVE HIM, OR I DIE. SO I WILL HAVE HIM."THE FAMO LAST HELLENISTIC MONARCH OF EGYPT, A BETIFUL AND AMB WOMAN THAT IS WELL AWARE OF HER POWERS OF SCTN. PLAYED BY LYNDSEY MARSHAL. 0% APPROVAL RATG: BY THE ROMANS, WHO BELIEVE SHE'S A SORCERS WHO'S SWAYED MARK ANTONY OM CENT ROMAN WAYS. ADAPTATNAL ATTRACTIVENS: AS PER ALL POPULAR PICTNS OF CLEOPATRA. A GOD AM I: AS REAL LIFE, CLEOPATRA BELIEVED HERSELF TO BE THE GODSS ISIS RNATE. THIS IS ED FOR RELIG PROPAGANDA, AS HER POLIL AMBNS MAKE LOOK LIKE SHE'S PLANNG TO FORCE THE ROMANS TO WORSHIP FOREIGN GODS. AMBN IS EVIL: CLEOPATRA ISN'T NTENT WH LG EGYPT AND TRI TO TAKE HER SON'S LEGACY, WH WARRG RULTS. ARRANGED MARRIAGE: TO HER YOUNGER BROTHER PTOLEMY, AS PER THE EGYPTIAN CTOM. ARTISTIC LICENSE: THE REAL URT OF CLEOPATRA HAD A STRONG GREEK FLUENCE, DUE TO EGYPT BEG NQUERED BY ALEXANR THE GREAT. THE PRODUCERS WENT WH THE THEME PARK VERSN VERSN TO MAKE MORE CLEAR THE CULTURE CLASH BETWEEN EGYPTIAN AND ROMAN SOCIETY THAT IS LATER ED AGAST ANTONY. BAD BOSS: KILLS ONE OF HER MNS WHILE DISCSG HUNTG WH ANTONY, WHO AT LEAST WAS AVOIDG KILLG THE MAN DRSED UP AS A ER. NOT THAT HE WAS BOTHERED EHER. AROED BY THEIR VOICE: CLEOPATRA PURPOSELY A HIGHER PCHED VOICE ORR TO SCE MEN. SHE'S ALSO JT AS PABLE AS STRIKG FEAR TO HER LTLE BROTHER AND HIS LICKSPTL WH HER EPER VOICE, AS WELL. THE REAL CLEOPATRA WAS SCRIBED TO HAVE A VERY CHARMG AND ALLURG VOICE, AND IS SAID THAT THIS WAS ONE OF HER MORE ATTRACTIVE FEATUR RATHER THAN SIMPLY BEG CREDIBLY BETIFUL. THE BABY TRAP: HER CHILD IS ACTUALLY FATHERED BY PULLO, HAVG CID TO HEDGE HER BETS BY SCG ANOTHER ROMAN BEFORE MEETG CAAR, TO ENSURE SHE'LL HAVE A CHILD. BASE ON WHEELS: CLEOPATRA OPERAT HER REBELLN OUT OF A LTER RRIED BY A DOZEN SLAV BEE SHE IS TOO IMPORTANT TO WALK. CRADLE OF LONELS: DO THIS WH ANTONY'S BODY WHEN SHE SE THROUGH OCTAVIAN'S LI. DRIVEN TO SUICI: ONCE SHE REALIZ SHE N'T NTROL OCTAVIAN THE WAY SHE ULD ANTONY AND CAAR. DU, WHERE'S MY RPECT?: SHE IS CENSED WHEN VOREN REF TO SLEEP WH HER. DYG MOMENT OF AWOME: LERALLY SENDS AWAY OM DYG OM THE SNAKE'S BE, SHE MANAG TO STAND UP, STARE DOWN OCTAVIAN, AND TELL HIM OFF. FUNCTNAL ADDICT: TO OPIUM. IRONY: BEFORE HER ATH, SHE CLAIMS THAT OCTAVIAN HAS A "ROTTEN SOUL," PRUMABLY FOR PLANNG TO KILL HER ADOLCENT SON. CLEOPATRA'S NOT THE NICT PERSON HERSELF, HAVG QUE SIARLY SECURED HER OWN THRONE BY TRAMPLG THE BODY OF ANOTHER CHILD, HER OWN BROTHER. LADY MACBETH: TO ANTONY. MS. FANSERVICE: SPENDS MOST OF HER TIME SEE-THROUGH DRS AND OTHER SKIMPY OUTFS. ALSO APPEARS NAKED A FEW TIM. NUBILE SAVAGE: IN THE ROMANS' EY. PASSIVE-AGGRSIVE KOMBAT: IS ABLE TO BEAT ATIA OF ALL PEOPLE AT THIS GAME. POWER HAIR: HAS A BOYISH HAIRCUT (PROBABLY BEE THE EGYPTIANS PREFER WIGS). PREPARE TO DIE: ACHILLAS' ASSASSS TELL HER THIS HER BUT EPISO, "CAARN". SHE GETS BETTER. PUPPET QUEEN: SHE OPENLY STAT HER WILLGNS TO BE ONE FOR CAAR, SO HE WILL BACK HER CLAIM TO THE THRONE. HOWEVER SHE HAS NO TENTN OF STAYG THAT WAY, SEEKG TO -LE A ROMAN-EGYPTIAN EMPIRE WH MARC ANTONY. REALLY GETS AROUND: BEDS THREE MA CHARACTERS. STRIPPERIFIC: IN ONE SCENE SHE WEARS A GOLD BIKI THAT PRCS LEIA WOULD BE PROUD OF. SEX FOR SERVIC"IF I MT PROSTUTE MYSELF FOR THE GOOD OF MY UNTRY AND MY FAY, I WILL. BUT CTOMER PAYS FIRST, DO HE NOT?" SUPERMOL STT: AS A SCTRS, SHE SOMETIM WALKS WH A LIBERATE STT THAT HAS A SWAY TO HER HIPS AND SHOULRS. TOGETHER DEATH: SUBVERTED; AFTER BEG TOLD THAT CLEOPATRA HAS KILLED HERSELF, MARC ANTONY FOLLOWS SU. SHE THEN TURNS UP VERY MUCH ALIVE TO VOREN'S UNNCEALED NTEMPT. HOWEVER SHE QUICKLY REALIS SHE N'T FLUENCE OCTAVIAN LIKE SHE DID CAAR AND ANTONY, AND KILLS HERSELF FOR REAL. VILLAO BREAKDOWN: SHE HOLDS TOGETHER DURG HER MEETG WH OCTAVIAN, BUT LOS AT THE PALACE ONCE SHE REALIZ THAT OCTAVIAN MEANS TO MURR HER SON. OR, SHE REALIZ THAT HE WON'T LET CLEOPATRA TWIST HIM AROUND HER LTLE FGER LIKE THE LAST TWO ROMAN LERS DID.CLEOPATRA: [SOBBG AND TALKG TO ANTONY'S RPSE] I'M SORRY, MY LOVE. I WAS HUNGRY TO YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT THAT BOY; HE'S A MONSTER! HE ONLY WANTS ME ALIVE SO HE N PARA ME CHAS FOR A MOB TO SP ON!KG PTOLEMY XIII"VASSAL? VASSAL? I AM NO VASSAL! I AM KG!"THE NAïVE CHILD KG OF EGYPT, YOUNGER BROTHER AND HBAND TO CLEOPATRA. PLAYED BY STT CHISHOLM. A CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM: UNFORTUNATELY AS SUCH HE'S EASILY TIMIDATED BY CAAR, SPE MANDG AN ARMY THAT VASTLY OUTNUMBERS HIS OWN. ADIPOSE REX: ON THE WAY TO BEG ONE. A GOD AM I: EXPECTED, SCE HE IS A PHARAOH. ARRANGED MARRIAGE: TO CLEOPATRA. ASSHOLE VICTIM: GIVEN HOW MUCH OF A ROYAL BRAT HE IS, 'S HARD TO FEEL SORRY FOR HIS FATE. BOISTERO WEAKLG: INSULTS CLEOPATRA BUT ONLY BEHD HER BACK. CHARACTER DEATH: AFTER HIS FORC ARE FEATED BATTLE, HE'S SHOWN DROWNED THE NILE. CULTURE CLASH: HE PRENTS POMPEY'S HEAD AND BRAGS ABOUT HOW THEY ULD HAVE ATTACHED TO A MARTE. RATHER THAN BEG GRATEFUL, CAAR IS OUTRAGED AT THIS DISRPECT TO A NSUL OF ROME. DU, WHERE'S MY RPECT?: HE EXPECTS NOTHG BUT TO BE WORSHIPPED. CAAR PUTS HIM QUICKLY HIS PLACE. GUYLER: THOUGH DUE TO CULTURAL REASONS. KG BOB THE NTH KNEEL BEFORE ZOD: US A MN AS A FOOTSTOOL BEE HE'S TOO SMALL FOR HIS THRONE. OH, CRAP!: WHEN CLEOPATRA SHOWS UP THE PALACE "CAARN". PUPPET KG: AND PLETE NIAL ABOUT . "VASSAL? I AM NO VASSAL!" ROYAL BRAT: AS YOU'D EXPECT OM A CHILD KG WHO THKS HE'S A GOD. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: HE IS A LOT LS POWERFUL THAN HE THKS HE IS. CAAR PUTS HIM HIS PLACE. TRY TO F THAT ON A BS CARD:POTH: BEHOLD PTOLEMY! HE OF THE TWO LANDS! HE OF SEDGE AND BEE! BEHOLD PTOLEMY! SON OF RA! PTOLEMY THE DIVE!CAARN"BROTHER OSIRIS, LET ME LIVE TO SP HIS FACE, AND REMD HIM OF THIS DAY!"PRCE OF EGYPT, SON OF CLEOPATRA AND (ALLEGEDLY) CAAR. PLAYED BY NILO BRECCI AND MAX BALDRY. A GOD AM I: RAISED TO BELIEVE THIS. APPEAL TO FLATTERY: WHILE FLEEG OCTAVIAN AS KG INGNO, A ROMAN SOLDIER MAK HIM REVEAL HIMSELF BY ASKG FOR HIS BLSG EGYPTIAN. CONSIR THAT AT NO POT DID THE ROMAN GUARDS HI THEIR INTY. BABY TRAP: CLEOPATRA HAS HIM SO SHE N HAVE A CLAIM ON ROME. TO ENSURE HAVG A CHILD THE FIRST PLACE, SHE HEDG HER BETS BY HAVG LOTS OF SEX WH THE NEART AVAILABLE ROMAN, WHO HAPPENS TO BE PULLO. BEETHOVEN WAS AN ALIEN SPY: CAARN WAS T PULLO'S SON AND SUCCSFULLY PED OCTAVIAN TO LIVE AS A PLEBEIAN ROME. BIG EATER: HE DON'T SHOW OFTEN. BUT HE EATS MORE THAN A BLACK HOLE, SPE BEG RAIL TH. HISTORIL IN-JOKE: THE SHOW NOT SO MUCH IMPLI BUT IS CLEAR THAT HE IS ACTUALLY THE SON OF T PULLO. JABBA TABLE MANNERS: AS A SI EFFECT OF BEG A BIG EATER, HE EATS VERY SLOPPELY AND QUICKLY, TRYG TO GET THE MOST FOOD HIS MOUTH AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE. MAMA'S BABY, PAPA'S MAYBE: HE IS ACTUALLY THE SON OF A MON ROMAN PLEB. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: VOREN BE A SUBSTUTE FATHER TO HIM UNTIL HE'S BROUGHT TOGETHER WH HIS REAL FATHER, PULLO. ROYAL BRAT: IN FAIRNS, HE THKS HE'S THE SON OF A GODSS (AND THEREFORE A GOD HIMSELF) AND THE LER OF THE MOST POWERFUL EMPIRE THE KNOWN WORLD. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: SOMETIM PLAYED FOR EDY. TELL ME ABOUT MY FATHER: CAARN ASKS THIS OF VOREN. HE TELLS HIM ABOUT PULLO.TIMHIFTED ACTOR--> UNKNOWN RIVAL: CAARN PROMIS VENGEANCE AGAST AUGT. AUGT DON'T EVEN KNOW HE'S ALIVE.CHARMIAN"MAJTY MANDS YOU WILL ENTER HER."A TSTED SLAVE THE SERVICE OF CLEOPATRA. PLAYED BY KATHRYN HUNTER. BTAL HONTY: CLEOPATRA HS HER AND N ORR HER ATH AT A WHIM, BUT SHE REF TO GUARD HER TONGUE. IT'S OBV THAT THEY HAVE THE KD OF RELATNSHIP WHERE SHE N GET AWAY WH THIS HONTY HOWEVER. FOIL: CHARMIAN IS THE FEMALE POS. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: TO CLEOPATRA. SERVILE SNARKER: AS WH POS, HER POSN ENABL HER TO GET AWAY WH SAYG THGS THAT WOULD GET OTHERS EXECUTED. THIRD-PERSON PERSON: DUE TO URT ETIQUETTE, AS BEG A SLAVE SHE NNOT ADDRS HER QUEEN DIRECTLY. UNDYG LOYALTY: SHE KEEPS SERVG CLEOPATRA UNTIL SHE KILLS HERSELF (WH CHARMIAN'S HELP), THEN MS SUICI TURN. THIS IS ACRDG TO CTOM, BUT 'S CLEAR THAT SHE SE NO PURPOSE LIVG BEYOND HER QUEEN. VRLIC BT BUDS: CHARMIAN HAS NO PROBLEM TRADG VERBAL BARBS WH HER MOST TEEMED QUEEN.CHARMIAN: SHE KNOWS HOW TO BEAT HER SLAV WELL ENOUGH, BUT SHE NNOT THROW AWAY THAT PIPE, AND SHE KNOWS .CLEOPATRA: INSOLENT DWARF, YOU KNOW NOTHG! (THROWS OPIUM PIPE OUT THE WDOW) WEAK, AM I? YOU NO TAKE CANDLE: SPEAKS WH A NOTICEABLE ACCENT.POTH"A SIMPLE EXTORTN. IF WE DON'T PAY HIM, THEY WILL PUT CLEOPATRA ON THE THRONE."THE EGYPTIAN PRIME MISTER AND REGENT TO KG PTOLEMY. HE GOADS THE YOUNG MONARCH AGAST HIS OLR SISTER-WIFE, CLEOPATRA. PLAYED BY TONY GUILFOYLE. AMBIGUOLY GAY: IT MIGHT NOT BE THE SE THE ORIGAL VERSN, BUT THE SPANISH DUB MAK HIM FLAMBOYANT. WEARG GUYLER DON'T HELP, THOUGH THAT'S ENTIRELY DOWN TO FASHN. BAD LIAR: AND HE THKS HE N FOOL CAAR AND POS... BUTT-MONKEY: IS ED A KICKG BOY DURG A GAME OF BLDMAN'S BLUFF WH HIS KG. AS SUCH HE DON'T NOTICE CAAR AND A NOT QUE DEAD CLEOPATRA ENTERG THE THRONE ROOM BEHD HIM. HE'S THEN OFFERED UP AS THE SPEGOAT FOR ORRG CLEOPATRA'S EXECUTN. HE THEN TRI TO PUT THE BLAME ON THEODOT STEAD. BOTH OF THEM END UP ON A SPIKE. CULTURE CLASH: HE KILLS POMPEY AND PRENTS HIS HEAD TO CAAR THKG THAT WILL GA HIS TST. CAAR IS ENRAGED STEAD. DIRTY COWARD: WHEN THE NSEQUENC E LOOMG, HE BLAM OTHERS FOR HIS OWN MISTAK. EUNUCHS ARE EVIL: THE EVIL CHANCELLOR VERSN. PROFSNAL BUTT-KISSER: TO PTOLEMY. RULE OF THREE: IN AN EXAMPLE OF BLACK COMEDY, HE IS PATED AFTER THEODOT AND POMPEY'S EXECUTNER, AND THEIR HEADS PUT ON SPIK OUTSI OF THE ROYAL PALACE.THEODOT OF CHíOS

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EXCLIVE: MEET "SPARTAC: BLOOD AND SAND"'S INTRIGUG NEW "GAY" {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY MICHAEL JENSENJANUARY 4, 2010/4:31 PMBY MICHAEL JENSENJANUARY 4, 2010 / 4:31 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"EXCLIVE: MEET \"SPARTAC: BLOOD AND SAND\"'S INTRIGUG NEW \"GAY\" CHARACTER","DATEPUBLISHED":"2010-01-04T21:31:23.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2010-01-04T21:31:23.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MICHAEL JENSEN","KEYWORDS":"THE BACKLOT","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}****WARNING*** THIS POST REVEALS THE INTY OF THE GAY CHARACTER THE NEW STARZ SERI SPARTAC: BLOOD AND SAND. STOP READG IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW THEIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANYONE WHO KNOWS EVEN A LTLE ABOUT ANCIENT ROME, GREECE, ETC. KNOWS THAT SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS WERE AN TEGRAL PART OF THOSE SOCIETI. OF URSE, THAT DON'T MEAN HOLLYWOOD HASN'T UALLY CHOSEN TO IGNORE THAT PARTICULAR ASPECT WHEN DOG MOVI OR SHOWS ABOUT THE ERA. THK RSELL CROWE'S GLADIATOR OR GERARD BUTLER'S 300 WHICH PECIALLY OOZED HOMOEROTICISM WHOUT ANY ACTUAL HOMOS. MEANWHILE HBO'S ROME CLUD SOME GIRL/GIRL PAIRGS BUT LEFT OUT THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OBVLY, NOT EVERY ROMAN EPIC NEED HAVE "GAY" NTENT, BUT WOULD BE NICE IF THEY WERE OCSNALLY CLIVE, NOT TO MENTN HISTORILLY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FORTUNATELY, BLE WORK STARZ IS ABOUT TO THE RERD STRAIGHT -- SO TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE FOURTH EPISO OF THE SEASON (BUTG JANUARY 22ND AT 10 PM) WE LEARN THAT THE CHARACTER OF BAR (ANTON TE MAHO), A GLADIATOR FIGHTG THE LUD (THK TRAG AMY) OWNED BY BATIAT (JOHN HANNAH), IS NOT ONLY "GAY" BUT HAS A RELATNSHIP WH A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANTON TE MAHO AS BAR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND WE LEARN THE A PARTICULARLY ... VISUAL WAY. LET'S JT SAY 'S NOT SOMETHG SEEN TOO EQUENTLY ON AMERIN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HOW DO BAR'S FELLOW GLADIATORS FEEL ABOUT HAVG A "GAY" GLADIATOR THEIR MIDST? IS THERE SOME TYPE OF ROMAN "DON'T ASK/DON'T TELL" POLICY AT WORK? NOT THE LEAST. IN FACT, 'S A PLETE NON-ISSUE WHICH IS JT AS SHOULD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HERE IS HOW THE WORK SCRIB THE CHARACTER:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A BIG, HULKG BTE OF A MAN, AN TEEMED GLADIATOR AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BATIAT’S BODYGUARD AND SOMETIM H MAN, BAR IS SEND ONLY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CRIX AT THE LUD. THOUGH POSSSED OF A TEMPER AND AN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STATURE, HE TEMPERS THIS WH THE TENRNS HE SHOWS HIS LLECTN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BIRDS AND PIETROS, A SLAVE BOY. HE IS EE OF GUILE, LOYAL TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT SECRETLY P TO GA HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BAR ISN'T LIKE QUE LIKE ANY OTHER GAY CHARACTER YOU'VE SEEN ON TELEVISN BEFORE. NOT ONLY IS HE TOUGH AS NAILS (HE'S NICKNAMED THE BUTCHER OF CARTHAGE FOR HIS FEATS ON THE BATTLEFIELD), BUT HE'S ALSO KD OF AN ARROGANT, FOUL-MOUTHED JERK WHO, AT LEAST SO FAR, IS NOT ON THE SI OF SPARTAC (ANDY WHFIELD). AND THAT'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WE'RE ALL ABOUT GAY VISIBILY HERE AT AND THAT CLUS GAY CHARACTERS OF ALL STRIP. HAVG A CHARACTER LIKE BAR NOT ONLY ADDS TO THE DIVERSY TO THE TV LANDSPE, BUT UNTERS STEREOTYP THAT A GLADIATOR CHARACTER ULDN'T BE "GAY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BY THE WAY, I KEEP PUTTG THE WORD "GAY" QUOT BEE ANCIENT CULTUR LIKE ROME AND GREECE DIDN'T THK ABOUT SEXUALY THE WAY WE DO. THERE WASN'T REALLY AN IA OF "GAY" OR "STRAIGHT" THE WAY WE THK OF THEM. INSTEAD WAS MUCH MORE ABOUT POWER AND BEG DOMANT VERS BEG SUBMISSIVE. WHICH ISN'T TO SAY THAT TWO MEN ULDN'T LOVE EACH OTHER THE WAY TWO STRAIGHT PEOPLE WOULD.  HOPEFULLY, SPARTAC WILL MUNITE THAT SI OF THGS AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS FOR THE OTHER ASPECTS OF THE SHOW SHOW, WE'LL HAVE A FULL REVIEW THE WEEK BUTS AND WE HAVE AN TERVIEW G UP WH LUCY LAWLS WHO PLAYS LUCRETIA. BUT HAVG SEEN THE FIRST FOUR EPISOS, I N SAY THAT IF YOU ENJOY THE SPECTACLE OF ANCIENT ROME AND GLADIATORS, THE SERI NOT ONLY LOOKS AMAZG, BUT IS VERY WELL-ACTED. AS LONG AS YOU N GET PAST THE GORE, 'S FELY A THUMBS UP OM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND DID I MENTN ALL OF THE GLADIATOR EYE-NDY? CHECK OUT ON THE NEXT PAGE!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HERE ARE THE RT OF THE MEN YOU'LL BE GETTG AN EYEFUL OF. AND I DO MEAN AN EYEFUL! FOR THOSE TERTED THE SORTS OF THGS, I DON'T THK WE'VE HAD THIS MUCH MALE NUDY ON TELEVISN SCE HBO'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANDY WHFIELD AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MANU BEN AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PETER MENSAH AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JAI COURTNEY AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CRAIG PARKER AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NICK E. TARABAY AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT REVEAL THE GAY CHARACTER THE SUBJECT LE OF ANY MENTS YOU MAKE! {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

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