Season 1
(2017)
Cast
as Legionaire in Intro credits
as Scipio
as Mark Antony
Episodes
Hannibal's Last Stand 6.5
October 27, 2017
Examining the day in 202BC when Rome defeated the might of Carthage at the Battle of Zama. This decisive moment set Rom…
The Spartacus Revolt 5.0
November 3, 2017
Bettany Hughes relates the events of 73BC when a Thracian gladiator started a slave revolt that so panicked the Roman e…
Crossing the Rubicon 5.0
November 10, 2017
Rome had defeated her great rival Carthage and overcame a slave revolt led by Spartacus, but these victories came at a …
Rome's First Emperor 6.0
November 17, 2017
Upon Julius Caesar's death, his 18-year-old great nephew stepped into the delicate balance of power and became Rome's f…
Boudica's Revenge 6.0
November 24, 2017
It's 60 A.D. Seventeen years after the invasion of Britannia, Roman forces march into the settlement of the Iceni tribe…
The Downfall of Nero 6.0
December 1, 2017
It's 54 A.D. and Nero just succeeded his stepfather Claudius to become the fifth emperor of Rome. What followed was 14 …
The Colosseum's Grand Opening 6.0
December 8, 2017
Out of the carnage of Emperor Nero's death and the civil war that followed, a new imperial dynasty was born, one that l…
The Rebirth of Rome 6.0
December 15, 2017
After more than a century of steady Roman decline, one man restores order to the disintegrating empire, setting it on a…