Season 2 poster

Season 2

(2007)

Overview

Season two's storyline picks up right where season one left off: with the 44 B.C. assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar and the near-simultaneous death of Niobe, wife of Caesar's faithful bodyguard Lucius Vorenus. Diverted from his post after learning that Lucius, his assumed grandson, was in fact Niobe's illegitimate son, Vorenus now descends into near-madness over his failure to protect Caesar, his role in his spouse's death, and the rumored murder of his estranged daughters.

Cast

Kevin McKidd as Lucius Vorenus
Kevin McKidd

as Lucius Vorenus

Ray Stevenson as Titus Pullo
Ray Stevenson

as Titus Pullo

Ciarán Hinds as Julius Caesar
Ciarán Hinds

as Julius Caesar

James Purefoy as Mark Antony
James Purefoy

as Mark Antony

Polly Walker as Atia of the Julii
Polly Walker

as Atia of the Julii

Tobias Menzies as Marcus Junius Brutus
Tobias Menzies

as Marcus Junius Brutus

Lindsay Duncan as Servilia of the Junii
Lindsay Duncan

as Servilia of the Junii

Kerry Condon as Octavia of the Julii
Kerry Condon

as Octavia of the Julii

David Bamber as Marcus Tullius Cicero
David Bamber

as Marcus Tullius Cicero

Max Pirkis as Gaius Octavian
Max Pirkis

as Gaius Octavian

Chiara Mastalli as Eirene
Chiara Mastalli

as Eirene

Lee Boardman as Timon
Lee Boardman

as Timon

Ian McNeice as Newsreader
Ian McNeice

as Newsreader

Simon Woods as Gaius Octavian Caesar
Simon Woods

as Gaius Octavian Caesar

Tommaso Sacco as Centurion
Tommaso Sacco

as Centurion

Episodes

Passover poster

Passover 7.8

January 14, 2007

Things pick up shortly after Caesar's murder. Octavian wants to keep his family from fleeing the city so he devises a p…

Son of Hades poster

Son of Hades 8.0

January 21, 2007

Cleopatra arrives in Rome to pay her homage to Caesar, and to seek legitimization for Caesarion. Egypt's queen causes f…

These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero poster

These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero 7.0

January 28, 2007

Brutus and Cassius struggle to raise foreign armies to oppose the Cesarean party. Mark Antony's plans to change his pos…

Testudo et Lepus (The Tortoise and the Hare) poster

Testudo et Lepus (The Tortoise and the Hare) 7.9

February 4, 2007

Pullo races to find Vorenus with news of his family's fate. Servilia's plans to eliminate a rival exact a high price fr…

Heroes of the Republic poster

Heroes of the Republic 7.5

February 11, 2007

Despite Pullo's advice, Vorenus and his family return to the Collegium with his family who is reunited, and cleansed of…

Philippi poster

Philippi 8.0

February 18, 2007

Vorenus receives orders to plunge Rome into a bloodbath the likes that have not been seen since the dictatorship of Sul…

Death Mask poster

Death Mask 7.5

March 4, 2007

Antony's nature reasserts itself, and challenges his alliance with Octavian. Timon and Levi set themselves against Hero…

A Necessary Fiction poster

A Necessary Fiction 7.7

March 11, 2007

Octavian proclaims a new era of virtue in Rome, a program that his family and subordinates find impossible to obey. Vor…

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

Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus (No God Can Stop a Hungry Man) 7.7

March 18, 2007

The people of Rome are starving. There have been many grain shortages over the past few months, but things have gotten …

De Patre Vostro (About Your Father) poster

De Patre Vostro (About Your Father) 7.9

March 25, 2007

Following his naval defeat at Actium, Marc Antony returns to Egypt, where he and Cleopatra settle into a world of debau…