imperiivm:ROME fancast: the guys who didn’t appear in your history lessons, part I/?.STEPHEN DILLANE
imperiivm:ROME fancast: the guys who didn’t appear in your history lessons, part I/?.STEPHEN DILLANE as GAIUS MARIUS, ❛The farmer of Arpinium.❛When, that is, he was quite young and living in the country, he had caught in his cloak a falling EAGLE’s nest, which had seven young ones in it; at sight of this, his parents were amazed, and made enquiries of the seers, who told them that their son would be most illustrious of men, and was DESTINED to receive the highest command and power seven times.- PLUTARCH.PAMELA BOWEN as AURELIA COTTA, ❛The next mother of the Gracchi.❛With scrupulous piety and modesty she regulated not only the boy’s studies and occupations, but even his recreations and games. Thus it was, as tradition says, that the mothers of the Gracchi, of CAESAR, of Augustus, Cornelia, Aurelia, Atia, directed their children’s education and reared the greatest of sons. - TACITUS.SIMON MERELLS as CRASSUS, ❛Rome’s richest Roman.❛And yet when he was further on in years, he was accused of criminal intimacy with Licinia, one of the vestal virgins, and Licinia was formally prosecuted by a certain Plotius. Now Licinia was the owner of a pleasant villa in the suburbs which Crassus wished to get at a low price, and it was for this REASON that he was forever hovering about the woman and paying his court to her, until he fell under the ABOMINABLE suspicion. And in a way it was his avarice that absolved him from the charge of corrupting the vestal, and he was acquitted by the judges. But he did not let Licinia go until he had acquired her property. - PLUTARCH.BRETT TUCKER as POMPEIUS, ❛More people worship the rising than the setting sun. ❛In this way, then, Pompey was elated, and his CONFIDENCE filled him with so great a contempt for his adversary that he mocked at those who were afraid of the war; and when some said that if CAESAR should MARCH upon the city, they did not see any FORCES with which to defend it from him, with a smiling countenance and calm mien he bade him be in no concern; “For,” said he, “in whatever part of Italy I STAMP upon the ground, there will spring up ARMIES of foot and horse.- PLUTARCH.SAM CLAFLIN as CLODIUS, ❛One of the most innovative urban politicians in western history. ❛Lesbius is beauty-man: why not? when Lesbia wills him Better, Catullus, than thee backed by the whole of thy clan. Yet may that beauty-man sell all his clan with Catullus, An of three noted names greeting salute he can gain. - CATULLUS.PETER CAPALDI as CATO, ❛He talks as if he were in Plato’s republic instead of Romulus’ cesspool. ❛When Caesar was eagerly engaged in a great struggle with Cato and the ATTENTION of the senate was fixed upon the two men, a little note was brought in from outside to Caesar. Cato tried to fix SUSPICION upon the matter and alleged that it had something to do with the CONSPIRACY, and bade him read the writing aloud. Then Caesar handed the note to Cato, who stood near him. But when Cato had read the note, which was an unchaste letter from his half-sister Servilia to Caesar, with whom she was passionately and guiltily in love, he THREW it to Caesar, saying, “Take it, thou sot,” and then resumed his speech.- PLUTARCH.NATALIE DORMER as CLODIA, ❛The Medea of the Palatine.❛But if you prefer me to take a more refined tone, this is how I shall deal with you. I’ll take that old man off the scene: he’s harsh, practically uncouth. So I’ll choose one of our young moderns, in particular, your baby brother. He’s a real man of the world in matters of that sort. He loves you very much. Because of some INDEFINABLE nervousness, some groundless FEARS of the night, I suppose as a little fellow he always used to sleep with you, his elder sister. - CICERO.VIVA BIANCA as FULVIA, ❛Granddaughter of Gaius Gracchus.❛When, however, the head of Cicero also was brought to them one day (he had been overtaken and slain in flight), Antony uttered many BITTER reproaches against it and then ordered it to be exposed on the rostra more prominently than the rest, in order that it might be seen in the very place where Cicero had so often been heard DECLAIMING against him, together with his right hand, just as it had been cut off. And Fulvia took the head into her hands before it was removed, and after abusing it spitefully and spitting upon it, set it on her knees, opened the mouth, and pulled out the tongue, which she pierced with the pins that she used for her hair, at the same time uttering many brutal jests. - CASSIUS DIO. -- source link
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