Rome V

Nothing much happened. No beaver shots. No boobage. All they had was a naked man's ass in the Roman bath.

Everything moved very slowly. Atia had some people draw some grafitti all over Rome of Caesar humping Servilia so Calpurnia, Caesar's wife, could see it. Like Calpurnia didn't know that Caesar was sleeping around. If you believe that you believe that Hillary didn't know Bill was getting a little on the side. I think by the time Caesar returned from Gaul, his relationship with Servilia had become a Platonic one anyway and his marriage to Calpurnia was also a political one. Everyone in Rome knew Caesar was a hound. He was known for cuckolding half the men in Rome. Anyway Caesar was a military hero and the strongest man in Rome and Servilia was in her late 40's. I think Caesar may have been more interested in some younger stuff.

We got to see Octavius (As I mentioned earlier, he didn't become Octavian until Caesar adopted him and his mother would not call him Octavian anyway. She would call him by his first name, which I think was Gaius, like his great uncle. I'm too lazy to look it up now.) acting ruthless when he and Pullo tortured and killed the father of Niobe's child.

Cicero showed his smarts as a politician by retiring to one of his villas, thus distancing himself from Pompey. That was true. Cicero lasted until after Caesar died. Fulvia hated him because she thought he was partially responsible for the death of her husband Clodius, who was killed by Milo. See what I mean about all the neat shit they left out? Geez, they had rival gangs, just like the mafia families. Milo was on the side of Pompey and the aristocrats and Clodius was on the side of the non-aristocratic middle and lower classes who were Caesar's power base. Anyway, Fulvia, who married Antony, demanded that he kill Cicero after Caesar was assassinated and Antony, Octavian (Caesar's dead, so Octavius is now Octavian), and Lepidus formed the Second Triumvirate and took over Rome.

Pompey pissed off Caesar by not agreeing to meet with him and then took off for Greece. One of the reasons he split was that many of his men, who were formally part of Caesar's army in Gaul, left him and rejoined Caesar. By this time, Caesar had a larger army than Pompey and Pompey, figgering discretion was the better part of valor, retreated to Greece.

Hopefully next week they'll find some way to show us some boobage.