My Favorite 110 TV Episodes: Rome Edition

Caesarion (2005)

Caesar frees Cleopatra after Pullo impregnates her.

The Spoils (2005)

Brutus decides to kill Caesar, Vorenus enters polite society, and Pullo descends into the Roman underworld.

Kalends of February (2005)

Caesar promotes Vorenus, but is assassinated nonetheless. Vorenus discovers a dark secret. Pullo attains happiness.

Philippi (2007)

Antony and Octavian defeat Cassius and Brutus.

The Roman Republic timeline

Roman Kingdon
753 B.C.: Mythical founding

600 B.C.: Etruscans arrive

534-507 B.C.: Collapse of Etruscan power


Roman Republic 507-31 B.C.
507 B.C.: Republic founded


6th-3rd century B.C.: Conquest of Italy
343-41 B.C.: 1st Samnite War

328-02 B.C.: 2nd Samnite War

298-90: 3rd Samnite War


264-146 B.C.: Punic Wars
216 B.C.: Battle of Canae

202 B.C.: Battle of Zama

146 B.C.: Carthage destroyed


146-88 B.C.: Reform and Disorder
91-87 B.C.: Social War

88 B.C.: Sulla marches on Rome

73-1 B.C.: Spartacus

63 B.C.: Conspiracy of Catiline


60-44 B.C.: Civil War
60 B.C.: Triumvirate formed

58-51 B.C.: Gallic War

53 B.C.: Crassus killed

49-45 B.C.: Civil War

44 B.C.: Caesar Assassinated

43-42 B.C.: Second Triumvirate

42-31 B.C.: Octavian eliminates rivals

31 B.C.: Battle of Actium and end of the Republic

History Shorts: The great church schism (1054)

The East-West schism in 1054 split the Catholic Church into Greek and Latin branches. The church broke along cultural, linguistic, geographical, political, and theological lines. The two sides did not understand one another and vied for control. The split reflected the schism that occurred five centuries earlier when Rome fell and Constantinople remained a major power. The major issues included whether leavened or unleavened bread was appropriate for the Eucharist, papal authority, and Constantinople's rights within the church. The breach remains to this day, led to each side excommunicating one another, the massacre of Latins in 1182, the Crusader sack of Constantinople in 1204, and nearly 1,000 years of mutual distrust. In the 20th century, Pope Paul IV and Pope John Paul II worked with their counterparts to heal the rifts caused in 1054.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQj0HpMdw74