Shame on the house of Ptolemy for such brutality. Shame.

>>79592514
>Caesar
>White and not black
Fucking dropped. Why do cumskins have to steal our history?

>>79592514
He was an enemy!

>>79592514
>... Roman law.
>Is there any other kind, you wretched woman?

>>79592599
HE WAS A CONSOLE OF ROME

A console of Rome

cato was best character

>>79592636
Cato was the patsy of a corrupt and dying system

>>79592514
Rome posting is the most patrician form of posting

caesar for real though just calm down and check out the pompey puppet for one second, I promise you'll laugh

>>79592690
so am i

>>79592636
MUH SENATE

>>79592696
trve roman posting for trve romans

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HE BLACKENS HIS EYES WITH SOOT LIKE A PROSTITUTE

>>79592636
CICERO > ALL

took his execution like a man

HE DANCES AND PLAYS THE CYMBALS IN VILE NILOTIC RITES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7MYlRzLqD0

I curse the lack of good wholesome Roman movies/TV shows.

>>79592768
mm i bet this guy smells like french toast and fried sausages

>>79593007
No, he smells like flour provided by the Capitaline Brotherhood of Millers. Trve Roman bread, for trve Romans.

>>79592847
cicero was pretty good too

damb, i miss this shoe

>>79592853
HE WORSHIPS CATS AND REPTILES ON AN EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHIC WALLFACE

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I stilll don't understand how the fuck this show was that expensive to make

Fuck all the people responsible for making it not longer than it is

>>79594930
someone else was using my computer

>>79592514
shame on the house of OP for not writing barbarity. shame

>>79594930
>I stilll don't understand how the fuck this show was that expensive to make

It was mostly the set designs I think

I would kill for a show like this covering the Byzantines.

>>79595218
whats the etymology of "byzantine"?

>>79595126
Set designs, wardrobe and catering add up.

>>79595250
The name of the city senpai. I don't think it's a Greek or Latin name.

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Make Way for best Octavian

>tfw I know all the character actors by name because of this show

David Bamber is great, he deserves more work

>>79595360
Please let's explore deeper. Why was it named that?

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>>79592514
Muh king of the north

>>79595402
Byzantium was an ancient Greek colony on the site that later became Constantinople, and later still Istanbul. Byzantium was colonised by the Greeks from Megara in c.657 BC.

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So Vorenus is fatally injured in Egypt
The Northern Ports are blocked by patrols looking for Caesarean
Vorenus wants to go home to the Aventine
The means months of trekking throw Egypt, Judea, Macedonia and down throw Italy to Rome

How did he survive that long without infection killing him?

>>79595467
Historians use the term Byzantine to differentiate from the Western Roman Empire, as the Byzantines called themselves Romans.

>>79595480
Trve Kvlt Rvman.

>>79595467
Why did they call it Byzantium? What does that word mean?

>>79592955
Post yfw this is kind of based on reality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Pullo

>>79595549
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantium
took me 10 seconds.

>>79595549
As New York City was once New Amsterdam, Istanbul was once Byzantium.
It's a useful handle to discuss the Eastern Roman Empire after the collapse of the Western Empire.

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>>79595578

>>79595631
What does the word Byzantium mean, though?

>>79595631
They should just make a spiritual successor to Rome and call it Constantinople

Dosent really roll of the tounge as well though

>>79595786
it's greek for "read a fucking book you semi-literate trash"

>>79595835
Which book explains what the name Byzantium means?

>>79595786
I don't know if anyone knows what it means.

>>79592955
It was illegal to crucify a citizen

t. Roman

>>79595825
Shitstorm online by Greeks and Turks alone makes me not want that happennng

>>79595860
SPQR by Mary Beard is the latest layman-accessible survey. off you go now.

>>79595860
What is a book?

>>79595902
interesting, it's a selling point for me.

>>79596131
Mel Gibson directs the Battle of Cannae.
If I were a billionaire I'd bankroll it just for my own amusement.
Anyone who has studied Classical Antiquity would agree.

>>79595912
Not reading a book by a women

>>79595868
It is a mystery

>>79596417
Those were my sentiments exactly. I don't read fiction by women as a rule. But she's the English language expert on Rome right now and I'm a Romeaboo.. Sad.

>>79596510
Mary Beard has several documentaries about Rome. I haven't watched a single one, and never will.

There must be a man with better expertise

>>79596510
>>79596556
absolute state of you two virgins

>>79596556
I love everything about this post.

>>79596600
in fact it is my deep experience with women that informs my policy.
some day you too shall understand.

>>79594930
Maybe ATTIA OF THE JVLII demanded more money to show her tits for season 3?

>>79592768
this guy was based af

>>79592847
This! Cicero was a scholar and a man

>>79596950
and the most well-documented human being until the middle ages. there are volumes of his writings, speeches, court cases, diaries, correspondence and so on.

>>79597066
Ovid was way better documented. Also, what does "Byzantium" mean?

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Romely thread reminder that Brutus and his ilk damned all of us to deal with another two thousand fucking years and counting of the corrupt republic.
>Muh it's the best we got
Stagnation in changing and improving how we govern ourselves allows corruption to take foot and spread, eventually allowing such cancer to reach a point to where removing such corruption is impossible without death of the host.

Instead now we live our lives fully aware that we live under the influence of a government controlled by corporations and that our government exists to benefit such corporations while maintaining juuust enough comfort and sense of benefit to the common man to keep them placated.

We have been fucked for multiple millennia. We occasionally throw off our rapist, be it through revolt or whatever means, but we get comfortable and allow another to straddle our ever willing backsides and fuck us for another century or more.

Our assholes are so wide at this point we don't even know what it was like to not be fucked.

>>79597418
We have trump now, and soon le pen, it's the start of a new era, liberty is here friend

>>79597418
But Julius, you are the corporations

>>79594930
>>79595126
the sets cost a lot but there was also a fire that destroyed the most expensive ones, dunno which exactly, so they had to be rebuilt.

>>79597471
>Muh dictatorship is bad compared to the republic
Kay. Honestly I don't see much of a difference compared to democracy and dictatorship except for the illusion that we have some sort of control.

At the time Julius ceasing control from the republic was necessary. We can argue about that all day, but I bet we can both agree that the Senate was and is corrupt.

>>79597719
Do you really not know the difference between seizing and ceasing?

What does Byzantium mean? (NOT ASKING YOU BTW)

>>79597784
Fucking auto correct.

>>79597719
Yo I had the chance to live in both a democracy and a dictatorship and I've come to the conclusion that worst democracy is better than any dictatorships we have around these days

JC might have turned out to be good ruler in the end, but no guarantee that who follows will be the same; in democracies margin of error tends to be much tolerable

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>>79597784
Apparently it means this, I'm gonna go Byzantium my penis now.

>>79597839
lol. No one is buying that you retard.

>>79597719
>We can argue about that all day, but I bet we can both agree that the Senate was and is corrupt.

Part of the reason the senate was so ineffective by the time Caesar took over, was that much of the "good" senators (i.e. the ones that were vocal) had been killed in the preceding years by Sulla. This left the senate more or less teeth less.

The army reforms pushed by Gaius Marius that made legions more loyal to their commander didn't help the senate's ability to govern either.

>>79597894
Oh I agree. 99% of the time dictatorships are shit and fucked for the majority, and democracy is the best we have.
However letting ourselves be fucked for thousands of years because it's the best we have isn't exactly the answer either.

>>79595362
I'm pretty sure either young or old octavian voiced Gwyndolin in DaS

>>79598052
This might be one of the alternatives to representative democracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

>>79592552
WE

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>>79597954
Okay baby, whatever floats your autistic boat. I'll seize my cock over the cessation of your insipid mewling.

>>79594930
sets and costumes

its a shame it didn't get more seasons, it should have been more popular than it was. If it was made now it definitely would be based on how successful GoT and shows like Vikings are

>tfw reading about all the shit they shoved into the second season or just gave up on

this show had everything but a chance :(

>>79598193
>seizing
Fun fact
Caesar was an epileptic and this where seizures took their name from

>>79592768
HE PLAYS THE CYMBALS IN VILE NILOTIC RITES

>>79598279
But it was as popular as Vikings by ratings and a huge hit by DVD sales which they were too stupid to realize.

>>79592955
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_JVaMuZZBQ

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>>79592955
Pure fucking kino

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It fucking sucks that Kevin McKidd and James Purefoy rarely acted in interesting movies/series after this one, they became my favorite actors after watching Rome

At least Ray Stephenson and Ciaran Hinds have some more movies under their belt

>>79599363
Lol it blends so well

>>79595876
even deserters?

>>79599713

Purefoy was based but McKidd?

vorenus was the shittiest acted character in the whole thing

>>79592514
any place where I can stream the show for free?

>>79599713
Vorenus has been a main character on grey's anatomy for idk how many seasons so I don't feel too bad for him
Pullo deserves better tho

>>79592955
Did the Romans really have whistle technology that, looking at that video, seems on a par with our own?

>>79600201

Blackbeard in Black Sails

>>79600412
Flutes were a thing much much before the Romans, and whistles aren't that of an innovation after that so I'd say they did

>>79599940
That's the way the character was meant to be though, stern and aloof. I thought he did a great job

>>79600201
In the end, it's Grey's Anatomy

He also did that fantasy/drama Journeyman thing, wasn't anything special but not bad either. That got cancelled after 1 season too (lel). I see Pullo quite often in movies and tv shows, though among the four that I've mentioned I think he's the least talented actor (still love him though)

>>79599363
BACK IN FORMATION!

>>79600638
oh shit I didn't realize that was him

Is it just me or is Attia the best female character of all time? Especially the scene when she almost gets poisoned

>>79595509
Yet they did not call their city Roma. Therefore even they knew that they were full of shit.

>>79596676
But she truly has wonderful tits and ass, like GOD DAMN

>>79600804
The character was nothing special, the actress did a perfect job bringing her to life

>>79600804
She was great. Cleopatra was pretty good too.

[[[[unclean tradesmen intensifies]]]]]

>>79593089

kek

>>79603594
i loved how this fat little bitch reacted to muh boy gaius.

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>>79600804
its rare that a female character makes me laugh but she did. pretty great actress senpai.

also vorenus wife is my waifu.

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>>79603694

Niobe is literally plebs choice

I was 12 when I first watched this series
I remember my hormones going crazy for
Atia

>>79596796
>implying he wasn't in the pocket of big bread

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>>79592633
>I AM A CONSOLE OF ROME

>>79592847
Reminder cicero married a 12 year old in his sixties and said "when im done with her she'll be a woman"

B A S ED

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Why is he so smug, bros?

>>79595250
Constantinople was originally a Greek city called Byzantium.
Historians from like the 17th century call the Eastern Roman Empire Byzantium to distinguish it from the old Roman Empire.

The name itself is probably from King Byzas

>>79603979
Who shit! Is that OURGUY!

>>79595876
>Condemned Roman citizens were usually exempt from crucifixion except when they were being punished for major crimes against the state, such as high treason

>Under ancient Roman penal practice, crucifixion was also a means of exhibiting the criminal's low social status. It was the most dishonourable death imaginable, originally reserved for slaves, hence still called "supplicium servile" by Seneca, later extended to citizens of the lower classes

I FUCK CONCORD IN HER ARSE

>>79595578
>the real Pullo was in the 11th Legion
>Rome Pullo was in the 13th
Why?

>>79604705
Shouting ELEVENTH just doesn't give the same feeling as THIRTEENTH

>>79604705
The real Pullo also fought against Caesar during the Civil War.

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>>79593317
>damb, i miss this shoe

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>>79599940
You're a retarded reddit faggot. Kill yourself now.

>>79604008
thanks pal

>>79592768
ALL MOCKERY OF JEWS AND THEIR ONE GOD IS TO BE KEPT TO A BARE MINIMUM

>>79599971
Do you want it to get canceled?

>>79599971
This is a show worth buying you cheap fuck.

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>>79597894
you sound like you have great taste

>>79603594
I hadn't seen this episode, is that Herod?

>>79607344
You sound like a fucking idiot. Yang states multiple times that his love of democracy and liberty is based on his identity as someone born in the FPA, and that if he had been born in the Empire he may have served happily under Reinhardt.

GAIVS.

JVLIVS.

CAESAR.

>>79595631
wait muslims conquered new amsterdam?