>No man is beyond redemption, Verenous. Not even you.
Rome was laying down fucking elements of proto-christanity in line with the emergence of Christ (which the series would have eventually covered).
This TV show would have gone from a comfy costume drama to a stunning examination of the birth of western civilization and our core values.
Vereneous was one of the best characters every portrayed on television.
>tfw GoT for the past 6 years instead of Rome
>tfw no McKidd, Stevenson, or Purefoy to elevate GoT's shit writing
>This masterpiece was replaced by dragons because Women and nerds.
iirc, McKidd and Purefoy have refused to go near GoT.
Not sure on Stevenson.
FUCKING REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Only good post ITT. I'm tired of retards polluting this board. Fuck off retards.
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Rome definitely fell under the category of "things women will never understand."
It also aired before social media exploded, when there was no virtue signalling or SJW outrage. Today it would be labeled sexist and problematic and too white.
Go fuck yourself, MGTOW retard. Maybe your dumbass mother didn't understand Rome but that doesnt mean I didn't. Hope you get laid someday, limp dicked retard. Lol, no I don't.
What the fuck are you talking about, Reddit?
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>HURR DURR I AM RETARD
Why do women like GoT so much?
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>why do dumb roasties have shit taste?
lol roastie mad she will never be able to think logically like a man
>dumbass
>Lol
Look at the fucking state of you Sup Forums
Didn't view your image, retard. Hahahahahah. I really didn't. Fucking retarded asshole.
>roleplaying as women on Sup Forums's Sup Forums
I hope this fulfills you.
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Bye, retards. Have fun with your dumb retarded thread
*flourishes skirts*
>"have you heard the good news"
(s2e3)
Your face when you realise that the dialogue in Rome is peppered with Christian dialogue in preparation for the continuation of the show.
>This was cancelled for dragons.
>That big lipped Gangster woman who kills Pullo's wife.
Most fuckable Rome-fu?
They could of spent six years outlining the reign of Augustus by itself. The rush job was depressing. Not shilling but Goldsworthy's books on Caesar and Augustus are pretty damn good if you are into Rome.
Are they worthy of the gold tho
The pre-Christian is not to be missed.
The most pro-Christian show on television doesn’t have a single Christian character in it — and it couldn’t have. Rome, the hit series now in its second season on HBO, is a surprising affirmation of the Western tradition. While it is packed with sex and violence, its (probably unintended) message is that Rome was desperate for Christianity. Although recognized by critics as one of the best new shows on television, less frequently noted is how the show rebukes those who would reject the West’s Christian heritage and go back to “neo-pagan” life. In fact, Rome illustrates that historians like Christopher Dawson were correct in emphasizing the revolutionary effect Christianity had on the pagan Roman world.
The show is set in the closing days of the Roman republic; the first season ended with the assassination of Julius Caesar on the floor of the senate by his friends Brutus and Cassius. The new season is concerned with the emergence of the Empire under Octavian, Caesar's nephew and adopted son, who becomes Caesar Augustus, reigning reigned from about 27 B.C. to 19 A.D. Tracking their more famous fellow Romans are (fictional) soldiers Lucius Verenus and Titus Pullo, whose lives allow the directors to explore sides of Roman life not often seen in the history books.
Three features stand out, amidst the thrilling story lines, well-crafted battle scenes, and first-rate acting. The first is the casual cruelty of the Roman world, seen especially in its treatment of slaves. Rome was, after all, a slave society, and slaves had no rights — indeed, almost no recognized existence except as property. They are treated like commodities (such as when Atia, a noblewoman and Octavian’s mother, offers her female slaves to Marc Antony, with whom she is having an affair) and are routinely brutalized (as shown in a sequence set in a slave farm where Verenus goes to find his children). The show treats this matter of factly, not for shock value or with a false sentimentality
it was just worse for slaves.
The Romans did develop a legal culture that is the basis of the Western legal system, including notions of natural law and rights, but that system was harsh: Testimony from slaves in court, for example, was not admitted absent torture. It had not yet been enlightened through the principles of equity that would make their appearance with the Catholic Church’s canon law and admonitions of charity.
The brutality towards slaves evidenced in the show is echoed in its depiction of the family. Wives and children had almost as low a status as slaves, and again the show portrays harsh realities without exaggeration or superficiality. Husbands could, and did, beat their wives with impunity, their children were only extensions of the father’s will, and the wife was clearly not the equal partner. Marriage was a religious event, but not, as it would later become, a sacrament. Women without husbands would become destitute, be sold into slavery, or become prostitutes.
Finally, there is religion. Rome is saturated with it — there are prayers and oaths, offerings made to deities known and unknown, and religious processions and priestly orders. A pagan world, in other words, is not one in which we control the gods, as trendy leftists suppose, but in which we are ever at risk of offending some god for failure to make the right offering or sacrifice. Moreover, these gods rarely provide a guide to conduct or right behavior — they are inscrutable.
There may be some quibbles with historical accuracy, but in the main the show has it right. Rome was not all marble columns and noble rhetoric, and those wishing to reject the West’s Christian heritage should take a hard look at what that world was like before the arrival of Christianity