Comments on: How a Republic becomes an Empire

By: Mutant Frog Travelogue » Blog Archive » Memoirs of a Geisha: If it isn’t one inauthenticity, it’s the other

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 04:22:48 +0000

[...] On a related note, this is a snippet from a conversation I had with Adamu concerning the HBO series “Rome,” which, I should add, Curzon really likes. [...]

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:24:59 +0000

Was I the only one watching mainly to get a glimpse of Indira Varma every episode? She be fiiiiine.

By: Tiu Fu Fong

Tiu Fu Fong — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:52:12 +0000

I found it a more than adequate stop gap while waiting for the continuation of the second series of Battlestar Galactica, which resumes in January.

By: Alexander Karatis

Alexander Karatis — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 07:32:54 +0000

Rome is simply the best TV series in a long-long time. Many lessons to be taught there. I can’t wait to see Octavian grow up!

By: J.Kende

J.Kende — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 03:46:06 +0000

If the Simpsons did Rome I would agree.

By: Knight

Knight — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:09:37 +0000

Best thing in TV for years has been the Simpsons….

By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 04:27:17 +0000

What’s always fascinated me was how the tricameral legislative system collapsed, with the Knights becoming almost powerless. Perhaps if the proletarian People, and not the middle-class Knights, had lost power, Rome could have developed much more Britishly?