Rome

I've got two episodes left in the second season. Brilliant stuff.

Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus were the only two common soldiers Julius Caesar ever mentioned in his writings.

Must have caused him a lot of headaches, like in the story.
 
I love the battle scene where Vorenus saves Pullo and shoves the spectre through the gladiators neck.

Another great scene is when Anthony finally gets the go ahead to kill Pompei's son and just walks up to him and does it pure class.

Great dialogue, wit, and acting as well.

Scipio: Is that a threat?(in regards to Caesar's army coming into Rome in the spring after the ice melts)

Anthony: It is no threat, I assure you snows Always melt.
 
Just finished the second season. Great show, pity that they canceled the third one. :(

Was really a tough times then...
 
rufus diabolus said:
I've just started watching this after reading the 'emperor' book series, enjoying it up to now.
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If you like historical fiction set in Roman times i can probably recommend you a few authors if you're intersted? Although i liked Conn Iggulden's Emperor series early on it began to disappoint for me.

More generally, i don't suppose any of you have been to the Hadrian exhibition at the British Museum these past months?



Rather than a third season in this era of the Roman history, a show focusing on Claudius or Vespasian onward would be something i'd like to see. Or maybe 4th/5th century Constantinople.
 
Nick go ahead and recommend those authors :D
 
Nick 0208 Ldn said:
If you like historical fiction set in Roman times i can probably recommend you a few authors if you're intersted? Although i liked Conn Iggulden's Emperor series early on it began to disappoint for me.
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Yeah I'd be interested thanks, I'm getting into my historical fiction books at the moment, some more Roman ones would be great. I've just finished reading the first of Cornwell's Saxon books and have got a series based on Hannibal to read as well.
 
uae said:
Nick go ahead and recommend those authors :D
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rufus diabolus said:
Yeah I'd be interested thanks, I'm getting into my historical fiction books at the moment, some more Roman ones would be great. I've just finished reading the first of Cornwell's Saxon books and have got a series based on Hannibal to read as well.
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Alright then! :)


As go authors, here's a few:

Lindsey Davis
Wallace Breem [Two stand alone novels to his name.]
Robert Harris [His novel "Pompeii" in particular]
Steven Saylor
Simon Scarrow

Davis, Saylor and Scarrow's main body of work are each set around a series.


If you're interested in someone who does top quality historical fiction focusing on ancient Greece, i'd suggest that you look no further than Steven Pressfield.

Ah, you've just finsihed The Last Kingdom, those were pretty chaotic times huh? I only finished his new book Azincourt in the wee small hours today as at it happens.
 
Nick 0208 Ldn said:
Alright then! :)


As go authors, here's a few:

Lindsey Davis
Wallace Breem [Two stand alone novels to his name.]
Robert Harris [His novel "Pompeii" in particular]
Steven Saylor
Simon Scarrow

Davis, Saylor and Scarrow's main body of work are each set around a series.


If you're interested in someone who does top quality historical fiction focusing on ancient Greece, i'd suggest that you look no further than Steven Pressfield.

Ah, you've just finsihed The Last Kingdom, those were pretty chaotic times huh? I only finished his new book Azincourt in the wee small hours today as at it happens.
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what about Coleen McCullough? Ever read any of her stuff?
 
Nick 0208 Ldn said:
Can't say that i have, would you recommend that i do?
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I can't because I haven't read her. But I heard that her series on Caesar is much better, historically accurate, and painstakingly researched then the "Emperor" series, which I heard is just wrong.

I always wanted to read it, but I could never find the first book in a store. It starts with Marius I believe, and through a series of books she goes all the way to the formation of the Empire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Rome
 
Nick 0208 Ldn said:
Alright then! :)


As go authors, here's a few:

Lindsey Davis
Wallace Breem [Two stand alone novels to his name.]
Robert Harris [His novel "Pompeii" in particular]
Steven Saylor
Simon Scarrow

Davis, Saylor and Scarrow's main body of work are each set around a series.


If you're interested in someone who does top quality historical fiction focusing on ancient Greece, i'd suggest that you look no further than Steven Pressfield.

Ah, you've just finsihed The Last Kingdom, those were pretty chaotic times huh? I only finished his new book Azincourt in the wee small hours today as at it happens.
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Yeah The Last Kingdom was a good read, looking forward to getting stuck into the second one. It's a time in our history that I didn't know much about before.

Cheers for the other authors, I'll look out for them when I'm done with these books.
 
Nistelrooy10 said:
I can't because I haven't read her. But I heard that her series on Caesar is much better, historically accurate, and painstakingly researched then the "Emperor" series, which I heard is just wrong.

I always wanted to read it, but I could never find the first book in a store. It starts with Marius I believe, and through a series of books she goes all the way to the formation of the Empire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Rome
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Iggulden does rewrite some parts of the Roman history for the sake of the story, he explains at the end of each book the changes he made, will look out for her books as well.
 
rufus diabolus said:
Iggulden does rewrite some parts of the Roman history for the sake of the story, he explains at the end of each book the changes he made, will look out for her books as well.
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I just finished reading First Man in Rome. All I can say is superrrrrrrrrb!

Although I knew so much about the Republic, I didn't really have a day to day feel for it, the "street feel" that you get from reading this. The little details that make a culture a culture. The characters are incredibly well done, fleshed out and interesting. The Roman politics are clearly shown and explained, all the little mechanisms that make it work. She also does well with some concepts that are strange to us like their honor system, humor, violence, family life, etc

Now I feel like I lived there a few years ago. And even though you know the major events, she still keeps it interesting. 900 pages went fast and I'm gonna buy the next in series as well.

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Nick 0208 Ldn said:
If you're interested in someone who does top quality historical fiction focusing on ancient Greece, I'd suggest that you look no further than Steven Pressfield.
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Agreed mate. Thoroughly enjoyed ''Gates of Fire'' and ''Alexander: The Afghan Campaign''.

I also enjoyed the Conn Iggulden ''Emperor'' series, and I'm currently reading his next series about Genghis Khan.
 
Nistelrooy10 said:
I just finished reading First Man in Rome. All I can say is superrrrrrrrrb!

Although I knew so much about the Republic, I didn't really have a day to day feel for it, the "street feel" that you get from reading this. The little details that make a culture a culture. The characters are incredibly well done, fleshed out and interesting. The Roman politics are clearly shown and explained, all the little mechanisms that make it work. She also does well with some concepts that are strange to us like their honor system, humor, violence, family life, etc

Now I feel like I lived there a few years ago. And even though you know the major events, she still keeps it interesting. 900 pages went fast and I'm gonna buy the next in series as well.

The_First_Man_In_Rome.jpg
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I have read the whole series. There are some ups and downs, where some of the books have less action, compared to the First Man in Rome. On the whole, I would warmly recommend reading all of them. She does manage to bring life to all these major historical figures.
 
WHAT A feckING SERIES!

Just watched the both seasons straight over the course of 4 days.

EPIC. Such a letdown that they stopped after 2 series. On wiki it says that they wanted to do atleast 5 series...with brutus' death at the end of series 2, egypt for series 3 and 4, and series 5 would be about the rise of the prophet in judea.

Better than game of thrones this.
 
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