Rome: Season 2

TV-MA
2007
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A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman... More

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Rome: Season 2 is available to stream in New Zealand... More now on Neon.

Rome: Season 2 episodes

Episode 2.1

Passover

Things pick up shortly after Caesar's murder. Octavian wants to... More keep his family from fleeing the city so he devises a plan. News of this makes Antony happy so he tells Brutus. Vorenus mourns Niobe's death but casts aspersions upon his children.

Episode 2.2

Son of Hades

Cleopatra arrives in Rome to pay her homage to Caesar,... More and to seek legitimization for Caesarion. Egypt's queen causes further complications between Anthony and Atia, who still struggles with Servilia. Timon's brother arrives from Jerusalem. The death of Erastes throws the underworld, and Rome's river commerce into chaos, and Pullo and Vorenus step into the gap. Octavian and Anthony begin a long and bitter rivalry with a dispute over Caesar's will and sharing of power.

Episode 2.3

These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero

Brutus and Cassius struggle to raise foreign armies to oppose... More the Cesarean party. Mark Antony's plans to change his post-consul proconsular governorship from Macedonia to Gaul are derailed when Cicero delivers an in-absentia message to the Senate, and throws his support behind Octavian. Vorenus struggles to contain an all-out gang war in the Aventine Collegium, of his own making,that he blames on Pullo. In the house of the Julii, Octavia passes the hours in a drug induced daze, while a duplicitous youth named Duro, planted amongst the Julii by Servilia, looks for the chance to set a deadly plan in motion.

Episode 2.4

Testudo et Lepus (The Tortoise and the Hare)

Pullo races to find Vorenus with news of his family's... More fate. Servilia's plans to eliminate a rival exact a high price from her. Cicero is astonished when Octavian sends word that his victorious legions are coming home to Rome. In Rome, Timon finally grows weary of Atia's bidding.

EPISODE 2.5

Heroes of the Republic

Despite Pullo's advice, Vorenus and his family return to the... More Collegium with his family who is reunited, and cleansed of their ordeal. Octavian is denied a triumph and urges Cicero to endorse his bid to be made Consul in exchange for an agreement to allow Cicero to veto his actions. Octavian takes both Cicero and the Senate by surprise with his first Consular act. Vorenus attempts' to make peace with Memmio and Cotta create suspicions that he has gone soft.

EPISODE 2.6

Philippi

Vorenus receives orders to plunge Rome into a bloodbath the... More likes that have not been seen since the dictatorship of Sulla. Octavia reveals her secret to Atia, and the armies of the Liberators and the Caesarians clash for the last time, with the fate of Republic in the balance.

EPISODE 2.7

Death Mask

Antony's nature reasserts itself, and challenges his alliance with Octavian.... More Timon and Levi set themselves against Herod's plans. Servilia's public displays of grief leave Atia unsettled. Gaia uses Pullo's punishment as a weapon against him. His daughter's sudden interest in business matters arouses Vorenus' suspicions. Posca gets married.

EPISODE 2.8

A Necessary Fiction

Octavian proclaims a new era of virtue in Rome, a... More program that his family and subordinates find impossible to obey. Vorenus is sent on a mission after a missing shipment of gold to discover who mysteriously hijacked it on its way to the Roman treasury. Pullo's loss and rage are channeled against Memmio, Omnipor and their henchmen. Octavian pursues Livia as an "appropriate" bride, and issues Mark Antony an ultimatum he knows he can't refuse.

EPISODE 2.9

Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus (No God Can Stop a Hungry Man)

The people of Rome are starving. There have been many... More grain shortages over the past few months, but things have gotten particularly bad. In hopes of keeping the people from openly rebelling, Octavian sends Atia and Octavia to Alexandria in order to negotiate a deal with Mark Antony, though his real reasons for their trip is soon revealed. Meanwhile, Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus must try to keep the peace amongst many of the mercenaries who are in Rome.

EPISODE 2.10

De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)

Following his naval defeat at Actium, Marc Antony returns to... More Egypt, where he and Cleopatra settle into a world of debauchery. Octavian tries to use Pullo as leverage to Vorenus to gain acess to the palace, but Vorenus stays loyal to Antony. Finally, it is Cleopatra who dupes Antony, saving her own life by sacrificing her honor. Ceasar Augustus triumphs in Rome.

Rome: Season 2 | Ratings & Reviews

Rome: Season 2 | Details

Award winner
Outstanding Art Direction, Cinematography & Hairstyling, Emmys 2007; Outstanding Art Direction, Hairstyling, Costumes & Special Visual Effects, Emmys 2006
Rating
TV-MA,
Genre
Action, Drama
Country of origin
USA

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