Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (TV Mini Series) Caesar (2006) User Reviews

Caesar v The Oligarchs

[georgioskarpouzas · 7/10 · 29 April 2007]

This second episode paints a human Caesar- a great personality but one can empathize with. He is presented as a champion of his soldiery against the corrupt an self-serving oligarchy of the Senators who employ his former ally Pompey to fight against him and whom they make loose a crucial battle because of their unwise counsel, greed and rashness. Being not familiar with military matters I was not able to comprehend the content of Caesar's tactics just the outcome. Again the motif of juxtaposing the Senate against a charismatic individual champion of the people is depicted here as in the next episode about Grachus and in a lesser degree the episode about Nero. His murder is portrayed in a rather implied and theatrical manner effectively I think. Whether Caesar victories and brief time in power made the lot of the average inhabitant of the Empire better is a debatable matter.

precise portraits

[Kirpianuscus · 6 August 2020]

A precise portrait of Caesar and Pompei, Rome political web, consequences of radical gestures and the transformation of Rome. An episode about the price of power and about essence of contemporary political movements, not different by the Rome who, losting the traits of Republic becomes the well known Empire with a high and bloody price.