Interestingly enough, one cite claims the ban was promulgated by Augustus, which raises obvious problems vis-a-vis the series ;). But it may be ( not having read the book ) that it was common discipline before that and he just codified it. Also I don’t think such a ban would apply to officers, nor discharged veterans ( not sure if Pullo is discharged at this point or not ).
Nope - it just eliminated Pompey, but not Cato, Pompey’s sons, or other prominent anti-Caesar republicans like Titus Labienus ( a former lieutenant and friend of Caesar, famous for his military exploits in Gaul ) and Metellus Scipio. Thapsus put the end to Cato and Scipio ( as seen in the last episode ). But even then Labienus and Pompey’s sons still weren’t beaten - the last big battle of the civil war was at Munda in Spain, in 45 ( a battle in which Octavian played a key role ).
I’m almost certain that was Atia’s main slave woman I saw spying on them. You know the older one with a dagger in her robes who’s always in the room while Atia is getting sexed?
I can’t remember - does Servillia know about Vorenus’s illegitimate child? If so, I would expect her to use that against Caesar once she discovers that Vorenus has been elevated to being a powerful ally of Caesar’s. If so, that’s going to bring up Pullo’s role in this, and that could be very bad for the Pullo/Vorenus relationship.
What would Roman honor say about that situation? If a man like Vorenus were to find out that his wife had an illegitimate child, what would honor demand of him? And what if he found that his good friend knew this and didn’t tell him? And that he had killed the father? Oh, what a tangled web we weave…
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…I do feel bad about Pullo & his slave girl. I still don’t understand how it all works. Pullo was the son of a slave, so wouldn’t he still be a slave? How did he get un-slaved? Just by joining the military?..QUOTE]
If his mother was freed before she gave birth then he’d be a citizen. Besides Romans didn’t do alot of cross-checking of records.
At one point during this episode, Caesar said something about returning Rome to the glory of the Golden Age. When did they consider the Golden Age of Rome to have occurred?
I thought Pullo only referred to his father as a slave.
She does now.
I wonder, if Servillia tries to come public regarding Caesar’s new magistrate, and Pullo and Octavian silence her, would Brutus see this as an insult and use therefore become Caesar’s enemy? A motive for March 15th?
His mother was a slave, and he remembers she smelled of pine, so she must have been from the north. He assumed his father was probably a slave, but he never knew him I guess.
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