Well, it’s not exactly Sex in the Eternal City, but HBO’s new series, ROME (8 p.m. Sundays on HBO), certainly puts the flesh back into 52 B.C. A co-production between the BBC and America’s homegrown ...

Niece of Caesar, mother of Octavia and Octavian. She is snobbish, willful and cunning, sexually voracious and totally amoral. In a culture in which women are formally without any power, Atia is among ...

This impressive DVD set for HBO's sumptuously produced epic series brings ancient history vividly to life in all its brutal glory. Beginning in 52 B.C., Rome chronicles the political machinations that ...

When Gotham premiered last fall, it was hailed by critics as the season’s “most promising show.” It was a gritty crime procedural meets a superhero origin tale. It also was the brainchild of ...

Eager to return to Rome after eight long years of war, Gaius Julius Caesar ends his campaign with a resounding triumph in Gaul, and news of a shattering personal loss at home. In Rome, Caesar's old ...

Across two sprawling season, as epic in scope as Gladiator or Ben-Hur, Rome never lets its feature film scale overwhelm the intimacy of the human drama. That drama is what really makes this series ...