Ciarán Hinds |
Julius Caesar |
David Bamber |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
James Purefoy |
Mark Antony |
Kerry Condon |
Octavia of the Julii |
Kevin McKidd |
Lucius Vorenus |
Lindsay Duncan |
Servilia of the Junii |
Grant Masters |
Achillas |
Guest Star |
Shaka Bunsie |
Hutto |
Guest Star |
Enoch Frost |
Nubian Soldier |
Guest Star |
Lyndsey Marshal |
Cleopatra |
Recurring Role |
Ian McNeice |
Newsreader |
Recurring Role |
(to Cicero)
Mark Antony: If I ever again hear your name connected with murmurs of treachery, I will cut off these soft, pink hands, and nail them to the Senate door.
Pullo: I promised the princess. I shall not speak of it.
Vorenus: You can't keep a secret to save your life. You've got a mouth like a drain.
(about Cleopatra)
Pullo: That Gyppo princess, now that's good cunny.
Vorenus: Her father's people rode with Alexander. You can't speak of her like that.
Pullo: She is, though, and she wants me badly.
Cicero: You should have no ill conscience. We did only what we had to do.
Brutus: No doubt Saturn said the same thing after eating his children.
Caesar: You will take half the men, return to Rome immediately, you shall have the honor of announcing pompey's death ... I shall follow you when I settle things here.
Mark Antony: Settle things? Settle WHAT things?
Caesar: Civil war is in the air, it must be prevented.
Mark Antony: Why? Let the wretched fight it out.
Caesar: War will disrupt the grain supply, without Egyptian grain, Rome goes hungry. It would be unwise not to intervene.
Mark Antony: And how will you intervene with only half a legion?
Caesar: I do not intend to fight, I shall merely arbitrate the various factions.
Mark Antony: You make it sound so easy. Those various factions are united only by their hatred of Rome.
Posca: He's right, Ptolemy might use you to rouse the people against a common enemy.
Caesar: I have conquered Gaul! I have defeated Pompey Magnus, I think I can handle a small boy and a eunuch.
Posca: A small boy with 100,000 men.
Caesar: I'm aware of that! He's still a boy nonetheless.
Mark Antony: You seem to forget that our war is not over yet. Cato and Scipio are still at large, given time they will raise another army.
Caesar: And when they do I shall crush them.
Mark Antony: I'm glad you're so confident ... some would call it hubris.
Caesar: It's only hubris if I fail.
Pullo: What a dump! Gyppo Gods must be right wasters to make a place like this!
Vorenus: Don't speak ill of the gods in their own country.
Pullo: Yeah, right. I've seen their gods. Titus Pullo wasn't scared of a bastard with a dog's head on him.
Vorenus: The more fool you. These gods are old and powerful. Egypt was a great nation long before Rome.
Pullo: Was it? Mumped it up now, then, haven't they?
Pullo: Land of fire! It's as hot as Vulcan's dick!
Posco: The tabulation includes all money borrowed from Pompey and other agents of the Republic now unable to collect.
Pothinus: That is not just.
Posca: Post mortem interests of this type are legally entailed to the presiding consul, i.e. Gaius Julius Caesar. It's... law.
Pothinus: Roman law.
Caesar: Is there some other form of law, you wretched woman?
Caesar: Shame on the House of Ptoley for such barbarity. Shame.
Pothinus: But... your enemies--
Caesar: HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!!! A consul of Rome... to die this sordid way? Quartered like some low thief? Shame!
Joseph Bennett, Domenico Sica and Christina Onori won the 2006 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series" for this episode.
According to the DVD commentary, although the this is the eighth episode of the season, this episode was filmed last in order for the sets to be changed to look like Egypt.
This episode derives it's title from the name of the son of Caesar and Cleopatra, who is seen in the last scene: Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar, whose nickname was Caesarion, or "Little Caesar".
The fate of "Caesarion" was an unhappy one. Although he was appointed co-ruler with Cleopatra, and deemed to be her successor, he never ruled Egypt in anything but name. After the fall of the forces of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony, and the capture of the city of Alexandria in 30 B.C.E. by Octavian (Augustus Caesar), Egypt was annexed as a Roman province. The teenage "Caesarion" was then executed by Octavian, who wanted there to be no ambiguity about the succession from Gaius Julius Caesar.
|
Friday
No results found.
Saturday
No results found.
Sunday
No results found.
|
S 2 : Ep 10
Aired 3/25/07
S 2 : Ep 9
Aired 3/18/07
S 2 : Ep 8
Aired 3/11/07 (57:00)
S 2 : Ep 7
Aired 3/4/07 (58:00)
User Score: 492
User Score: 379
User Score: 109
User Score: 88
User Score: 82
User Score: 66
User Score: 53
User Score: 42
User Score: 40
User Score: 37