ROMA

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ROMA

2005

(8,8 out of 10)
Azione (Drammatico|Guerra|Sentimentale|Storico)
52 min - 52 min
Directed by Michael Apted, Mikael Salomon, Allen Coulter, Alan Poul, Steve Shill, Timothy Van Patten, Alan Taylor, John Maybury, Julian Farino, Jeremy Podeswa, Adam Davidson, Carl Franklin, Alik Sakharov, Roger Young

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	Kevin McKidd
	Ray Stevenson
	Polly Walker
	Kerry Condon

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La serie è ambientata a Roma nella seconda metà del I secolo a.C., nel periodo in cui la Repubblica, ormai morente, è scossa dalle guerre civili. <br>All'interno di questo contesto si alternano e si intrecciano le storie di personaggi storici realmente esistiti. Nella prima stagione vengono ripercorsi gli ultimi anni di vita di Gaio Giulio Cesare, dalla resa di Vercingetorige alla sua morte avvenuta in Senato per mano di Cassio e Bruto. Questa è contornata dalle vicende di Marco Antonio come Tribuno della plebe, dai primi anni di Ottaviano Augusto e dalle vicende di fantasia del centurione prima lancia Lucio Voreno e del legionario Tito Pullo (personaggi realmente esistiti e nominati nel De bello gallico, i quali però ricoprivano entrambi il ruolo di centurione). <br>La seconda stagione si sviluppa negli anni successivi alla morte di Cesare con il vuoto di potere che ne scaturisce e le lotte tra Marco Antonio e Ottaviano Augusto, che si concludono con la definitiva presa del potere di quest'ultimo e con la nascita dell'Impero Romano mentre, sul piano delle vicende personali, Lucio Voreno muore (in realtà sulla sua vera fine rimane un punto interrogativo: la sua morte non viene mostrata, ma raccontata a Ottaviano da Pullo, in un resoconto tra l'altro pieno di menzogne, così che la sorte del personaggio resta in effetti indefinita), mentre Tito Pullo si prende cura di Cesarione, il bambino ufficialmente considerato figlio di Giulio Cesare e Cleopatra ma che era in realtà figlio suo, sottratto alla morte e tenuto in vita sotto mentite spoglie.

The real Atia (Octavian's mother) died in 43 B.C. In the series she is still alive in 31 B.C. <br>------------------------<br><br>Candles are seen to be the primary source of lighting through the series. Factually Romans mostly used oil lamps. <br>------------------------<br><br>In the close-up views of sandals, especially the legionaries' sandals, one can see what looks like a modern rubber sole. The "caliga" (Latin for boot) had no sole. <br>------------------------<br><br>During several episodes captive birds are shown. There are Macaws and Amazon parrots from America, and cockatoos from Australia. Since the continents these birds came from were unknown to the Romans, they would not have been able to travel there and bring these animals back to Rome with them. <br>------------------------<br><br>According to the DVD commentary, the creators made a deliberate effort to show camels in scenes set in Alexandria or elsewhere in Egypt, in order to make them look exotic compared to the scenes set in Rome. Camels, however, would be of no use in Ancient Alexandria, because it was built on a marshy island in the Nile delta and camels are poorly suited to walk over such soft, humid soil. <br>------------------------<br><br>The words Domina and Dominus are practically the only Latin words the cast uses regularly. Nevertheless, as they are always used as vocative, the masculine form should be Domine. More than that, the spoken Latin of the higher classes is inadequately close to ecclesiastical late Latin. <br>------------------------<br><br>In real life, Servilia dies after Attia. <br>------------------------<br><br>Several historical changes were made to move the story along. Octavian was in Illyria undergoing military training when Caesar was killed. Livia was actually Octavian's third wife and she had two sons when she married Octavian; Tiberius and Drusus. Drusus was married to Antonia, the daughter of Marc Antony and Octavia and was the grandfather of Caligula and the father of Claudius. Octavian had one natural child, Julia, by his first wife. Julia was married at one time to Tiberius. <br>------------------------<br><br>The series implies that the break between Caesar and Pompey happens after the death of Julia, Caesar's daughter and Pompey's wife. In reality, she had been dead for several years by the time of Caesar's conflict with Rome. <br>------------------------<br><br>During slave auctions the slaves wear loin cloths. Factually slaves which were sold as laborers or young women were presented naked. <br>------------------------<br><br>