 Chiara Mastalli |
Eirene |
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Vorena the Elder |
David Bamber |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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 James Purefoy |
Mark Antony |
Kerry Condon |
Octavia of the Julii |
Rafi Gavron |
Duro |
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Levi |
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Nicolò Brecci |
Caesarion |
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 Zuleikha Robinson |
Gaia |
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Lyndsey Marshal |
Cleopatra |
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Michael Nardone |
Mascius |
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Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions
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TRIVIA (2)
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Timon's brother Levi left Jerusalem while Phasael was Governor of the city. During this time there were frequent conflicts between the supporters of the Hasmonean Antigonus and the supporters of Phasael. Phasael was Idumaean and even though his family had converted to judaism they were disliked by the perspicacious and nationalist Jews for their perceived non-Jewish and Arab ancestry.
So Levi fleeing from Jerusalem is historically acurate for anyone that might have been supporting the Hasmonean cause and facing persecution from Phasael or the Romans in the region.
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The term collegium (collegia being the plural word) is a latin phrase that roughly translates to a "club" or "guild".
Its equivalent in modern times would be about the same as the term "Union" that is used today to represent a group of people that all work in a particular profession.
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QUOTES (14)
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Pullo: Come through the back and say hello to Vorenus. Cheer up the old bastard.
Mascius: Is it true what they say then, about the wife and children?
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Mark Antony: You're lucky you're still breathing boy! Do you here me? You're lucky you're still breathing!
Octavia of the Julii: ANIMAL!
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Atia of the Julii: What sort of woman is she?
Mark Antony: Who?
Atia of the Julii: The Egyptian girl.
Mark Antony: Oh her... barely met her. Skinny thing. Talks too much.
Atia of the Julii: Well, she must have something. To lure a cold fish like Caesar.
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Antony: You've changed since we last met.
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Cleopatra: My son by Caesar is near four years old. He has begun to ask questions about his father.
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Antony: Surely you don't think those men paid me to put their names on the list?
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Antony: No man is beyond redemption, Lucius. Not even you.
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Antony: She did ask me to formally recognise her bastard as Caesar's son.
Atia: Blasted impudence! You refused, of course? Octavian is the only--
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Vorenus: What more could the gods do to me? How can they punish me now?
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Vorenus: I have caused the death of my wife. I have caused the death of my children. I have caused the death of Caesar. What would you have me do now?
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Pullo: How about a kiss?
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Vorenus: I am a Son of Hades!! I fuck Concorde in her ARSE!!!
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Atia: Die screaming you pigspawn trollop.
Cleopatra: .......
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NOTES (1)
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One might note the religious sensitivity of the Roman citizen in this era. Even "thieves and cutthroats" are obviously respectful of religious authority - such as the edicts from the priests of Concorde; are shocked by Vorenus' acts of sacrilege; and are held at bay by Vorenus' claims to be allied with the Gods of the underworld. Also note Pullo's unease and objection to Vorenus' tactic, claiming that "The God's don't like that".
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Hades - who Vorenus invokes to keep the Collegium cowed - was actually the Greek name for the god of the dead and the underworld. The Roman name which Vorenus should have used is Pluto. This was most likely changed because the name Hades is better known.
Many people in Roman times feared Hades because they feared death, and the mere act of speaking his name (much less swearing oaths by Hades) was shocking. However, in Roman times, Hades did not have connotations of evil - but was a dark, morbid, morose, and passive God maintaining balance and jealously protecting and confining the souls of the dead. Medieval thought which associated Hades and the Roman underworld with Hell and Satan later added this element of evil to the idea of Hades.
While Vorenus' claim would be shocking and fearful to Romans of the time, it would not have the same connotations as someone in a Christian era claiming to be a "Son of Satan".
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Concordia (or Concord as she is referred to in this episode), was the Roman incarnation of the Greek goddess Harmonia: goddess of agreement, understanding, and marital harmony. In medieval art, she is sometimes depicted standing between two members of Royal Houses shaking hands, and this appears to be how she is depicted in the episode, although without the two "disputants" - presumably she is meant to symbolically "stand" between the disputing parties in the Collegium.
It should be noted that not only was Concordia goddess of harmony, truce, and peace, but that the Roman Senate often met within the temple of Concordia. Invoking Concordia to preside over a meeting to resolve the civil disturbances could be seen and symbolically lending both religious and political authority to Vorenus' ultimatum to the underworld figures - doubly so as he explicitly has Anthony's political and financial backing.
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The act of kidnapping and selling people (usually travelers) into slavery was a practice of Roman slavers, so the fate of the Vorenii children in the last scene of the episode is historically accurate - although the idea of someone coming into the house of a Roman citizen and dragging them off into slavery would have been unthinkable. This kind of slavery was later deterred by Augustus (Octavian) and his successor Tiberius, but the practice did not completely die out for at least a century following their reigns.
See: http://www.ucd.ie/classics/classicsinfo/96/Madden96.html
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