HBO Rome - 2 How Titus Pullo brought down the Republic - History and Story
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 มิ.ย. 2024
- A look at episode 2 of the first series/season of HBO's Rome drama. Once again we talk about teh actual history and how the characters, events and institutions are presented in the series. This time this includes Antony becoming tribune of the plebs, as well as a meeting of the Senate and Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon.
Vidcaps taken from the dvd edition, so copyright belongs to HBO.
RIP Ray Stevenson 😢
13th!
RIP indeed. I know a few of the type of people he usually got to portray, so it hit a little closer that this relatively young man was taken from us.
Thank you Prof Goldsworthy!
Sir, I am so thankful for your videos
Guy was a legend. RIP Ray
I own your Roman Army book. It's very good. You are one of the foremost historians of Roman history. Thank you for your very informative videos.
Oh He has one , does it exist in english and way more important IS IT Well translated in German If IT was because appearantly a Lot of Roman History books get murdered through Translation?
Babe, new AG vid dropped!
Enjoying the series! Love HBO Rome.
Love this! Glad you’re doing this series!
Great breakdown of a great series! Thanks for these vids 👍🏻
Loving these.
In regards to Posca and Caesar, I didn't see it as them portraying Posca as smarter than Caesar, but rather more pragmatic and by the numbers, which showed Caesar as someone who was more of a "big picture" type who was able to see and calculate things most people wouldn't.
i think when he said that he had moved on from specifically Posca and Caesar and was talking about the general principle behind having an influential freedman advisor.
I think Adrian should do commentary on other shows, such as GRRM’s shows.
The Voranus vs wifey stuff was a bit tedious,. But, as per usual, Titus Pullo provides the comic relief that saves the day, even if it's at the expense of the Roman Republic.
The series may have taken liberties with history,, but overall, its script, acting , sets, and fictions proved entertaining, and fun to watch as well.
One thing they portrayed well, in my opinion, was Caesar's war against Pompey. Caesar was like a boxer who came rushing out in the first round and caught Pompey off balance. He stayed close, never giving Pompey a moment. Pompey was a great, great man. Caesar's victory over him was incredible. They really did a good job with the larger picture historical events. By the way, they may be close to finding Antony and Cleopatra's tomb. Within the next few years, I believe. He should be embalmed with full armor.
@@joebombero1 Agreed about Caesar. My best guess is Cleoptra and Antony 'sleep with the fishes" given an earthquake slid the Royal Palace precinct into Alexandria's harbor.
You are the kind of professor, I like to have a beer and a talk with.
We`re so back!
When an officer of the state knows, with certainty, he will be found guilty in a politically-motivated show-trial the moment he relinquishes his office, it's easy to understand the temptation to hold onto that office. Thank goodness nothing like that ever could happen where I live. America doesn't have politically-motivated show-trials, comrade.
Even after the recent Supreme Court decision upholding Trump's immunity claim...?
Thank you from Texas!
Total civvie perspective.
The 'pleb' as insult is weird.
Why not use 'head count'??
*BLARES TRUMPET*
Once Crassus was dead I suspect Caesar realised he was in some kind of zero sum game with Pompey. His success inevitably detracted from his rival. His own success was his overwhelming concern. Conflict was inevitable. Caesar was clear-sighted enough to see this before Pompey.
The sources and evidence do not support this idea at all. There is no contemporary evidence Caesar and Pompey were anything but supportive and loyal to each other prior to 50 BC. Conflict was absolutely not inevitable, you are suffering from a teleological hindsight perspective. The origin and cause of the conflict actually had little to do with Caesar and Pompey themselves and much more to do with the influence and warmongering of Cato and his factio. Caesar tried to avoid bloodshed and conflict as much as possible and desperately wanted to get an in-person meeting with Pompey to come to terms until Pompey sailed away for Greece. Caesar made massive concessions to the point of giving up all but 1 legion and the province of Illyria(completely neutralizing any threat he could possibly pose to Pompey). Pompey was going to accept if it was not for the intervention of the consuls and Cato because reconciliation would mean political defeat for their factio. Caesar truly had no interest in a civil war and it was forced upon him.
It's a HBO series. Lots of gratuitous sex and violence thrown in to titillate the audience.