GhostOfClayton Posted September 1, 2010 Report Share Posted September 1, 2010 [This isn't really related to any of the mentioned questions..but I have a question of my own: WHEN IS THERE GOING TO BE A MOVIE?!??!?!? Have a look at this IMDB link . . . http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057918/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gracethomas Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 For the most part, HBO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostOfClayton Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 For the most part, HBO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompieus Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 (edited) HBO is showing the first season again and and it's hard to resist nit-picking. Aside from calling Servilia a Iunius (her father was a patrician Servilius Caepio - much more important than her husband - a plebian Iunius Brutus) and Atia a Julia (although her mother was Caesar's sister, her father Atius wasn't even a senator. And she married an Octavius who was at least a senator but no big whig, and later a Marcius Phillipus who was at least a consular.) They treated the Augers oddly. These priests were not a separate sect outside the mainstream that had to be influenced by secret negotiations, but were elected from the main players in the state. In fact Antonius and Pompey were Augers, and Caesar, as Pontifex Maximus, was responsible for their supervision. Edited August 12, 2014 by Pompieus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Oh well, there is bound to be inaccuracies in historical series or dramas. I just sit back and enjoy it for what it is - entertainment with a historical flavour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompieus Posted August 13, 2014 Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 You're right, of course. And I was wrong...Atius WAS a senator, as he was praetor in 62 BC. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flavius Inismeus Posted April 10, 2018 Report Share Posted April 10, 2018 On 8/12/2014 at 5:34 PM, Pompieus said: They treated the Augers oddly. These priests were not a separate sect outside the mainstream that had to be influenced by secret negotiations, but were elected from the main players in the state. In fact Antonius and Pompey were Augers, and Caesar, as Pontifex Maximus, was responsible for their supervision. Yes and no; I think they (correctly) showed Cicero lurking among the augurs, but the whole business of auspication was a travesty. The question of whether the PM supervised augurs is rather thorny; Mommsen thought so, but Jerzy Linderski states in the beginning of his article on the augural law in ANRW that pontifices took care of sacra and augurs of auspicia, and that was that. Further, R. E. A. Palmer argues in "The Deconstruction of Mommsen on Festus 462/464, or the Hazards of Interpretation," in Imperium sine fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic (F. Steiner, 1996), pp. 75-101, that Mommsen's reconstruction of the source was wrong: it was not an augur but a reluctant choice for flamen Dialis whom the PM tried to discipline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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