Rome - BBC Two

[RogerS]

Anyone else like me and glued to the set for this very watchable series?

 

[mr]

Not any more alas - last nights was the last in the series. Series 3 please

Cheers Mike

 

[Scrit]

Yes, despite some of the "dramatic inaccuracies" (trhe demise of Brutus and Cassius, for example). Excellent. Don't tell me how it ended - I'm not watching that until later this evening......

Scrit

 

[RogerS]

Well, Scrit..first Octavian said to.... :wink:

Enjoy it! Some superb acting by many of them but James Purefoy was truly excellent. Edge of the seat.

Roger

 

[RogerM]

Great series - but don't you just have to feel sorry for the history teacher who only saw the trailers and wrote to the parents of his year 7 pupils asking that despite the late start, could the children be allowed to stay up to see it!

Unfortunately I'm sure I've read somewhere that due to the costs there will be no series 3.

 

[NickWelford]

I too would love to see a third series, but perhaps later in the history of Rome - Octavian ruled for some 44 years or so, if my memory serves, and things weren't quite so dramtic.

 

[Scrit]

Octavian is probably better known by his later name, Emperor Augustus (the series was slightly incorrect, wasn't it? I thought that Octavian took the name Augustus after his adoption by Julius Caesar). With him the story is taken forward by Robert Graves' epic books "I, Claudius" and "Claudius the God", so there might have been other reasons for stopping at the point they did. It would have been nice to see what they could have made of the political intrigues of that reign, though

Scrit

 

[NickWelford]

No, it was much later when the Senate bestowed the title of Augustus upon him. About 27 BC.

 

[Scrit]

No, it was much later when the Senate bestowed the title of Augustus upon him. About 27 BC.

That's what comes of trying to remember Latin-English translations from school some 40 years ago.......

Scrit

 

[mr]

Puella in hortam est.

Hmm it wasn't quite 40 years ago for me but It's still a struggle to remember any of it.
Somewhere round here I have a copy of SPQR, remember that? Must dig it out.
Cheers Mike

 

[Smudger]

Does this mean that we might get a decent film/TV miniseries of Lindsey Davis' Falco novels? I'd like to see that.

 

[Scrit]

Somewhere round here I have a copy of SPQR, remember that?

:-#

 

[Racers]

Hi,

They repeated ONE Claudius :wink: on BBC3 or 4 a while back they don't make them like that any more excellenet series.

pete

 

[RogerS]

That's what comes of trying to remember Latin-English translations from school some 40 years ago.......

Scrit

Hic haec hoc huis huis huis huic ....forgotten the rest :lol:

Do remember De bello Gallici..Caesar while returning to his winter quarters as he was accustomed to doing each year....

 

[mr]

I have Cicero's Pro Caelio sat here on the bookcase. I didn't enjoy reading it when I was 17 at school I'm not entirely sure why I still have it. Plautus was better. The foundation for Frankie Howard but Cicero - what a bore.
Cheers Mike

 

[Benchwayze]

I preferred 'Life on Mars'.

'Gladiator' bored me stiff.
'The Robe' was too long. (Burton kept tripping over it.)
'Up Pompie' was just up my street.
'Open all Hours' is still running and making people laugh.

The truth is, I wasn't able to watch 'Rome' as SWIMBO preferred not to leave the room whilst it was on, and wanted to record some other rubbish so she could watch a program about Hospitals and surgical procedures.
And she calls 'Rome' gory!

It would have to be good though to be better than Caligula, with Derek Jacobi. Was it?

('Life on Mars' was good though.... That was just how things were in those days, of that I assure you all!

John

 

[DomValente]

In modern Italy, SPQR= Sonno-Porci- Quei-Romani ( those Romans are pigs)

Dom

 

[mr]

In modern Italy, SPQR= Sonno-Porci- Quei-Romani ( those Romans are pigs)

Dom

I widely held belief outside Rome as I understand
Cheers Mike