Contents

pp v-vi

Series Editors’ Preface

pp vii-viii

Editor's Acknowledgments

pp ix-ix

Contributors

pp x-xiv

List of Illustrations

pp xv-xvi

Episode Listing

pp xvii-xvii

Cast List

pp xviii-xviii

Introduction: The Trials and Triumphs of Rome, Season Two

pp 1-10

PART I - POWER AND POLITICS

pp 11-12

1 - A Touch Too Cerebral: Eulogizing Caesar in Rome

pp 13-24

2 - Discharging Pullo and Vorenus: Veterans in Rome

pp 25-35

3 - Gangsterism in Rome

pp 36-47

4 - Class, Chaos, and Control in Rome

pp 48-60

5 - Earning Immortality: Cicero's Death Scene in Rome

pp 61-73

6 - The Triumvirate of the Ring in Rome

pp 74-87

7 - Jews and Judaism in Rome

pp 88-102

PART II - Sex and Status

pp 103-104

8 - Revenge and Rivalry in Rome

pp 105-116

9 - Effigies of Atia and Servilia: Effacing the Female Body in Rome

pp 117-127

10 - Livia, Sadomasochism, and the Anti-Augustan Tradition in Rome

pp 128-140

11 - Windows and Mirrors: Illuminating the Invisible Women of Rome

pp 141-154

12 - Antony and Atia: Tragic Romance in Rome

pp 155-168

13 - Problematic Masculinity: Antony and the Political Sphere in Rome

pp 169-181

14 - Rome, Shakespeare, and the Dynamics of the Cleopatra Reception

pp 182-192

15 - The Rattle of the Sistrum: “Othering” Cleopatra and Egypt in Rome

pp 193-205

16 - Gateways to Vice: Drugs and Sex in Rome

pp 206-218

17 - Slashing Rome: Season Two Rewritten in Online Fanfiction

pp 219-230

Filmography

pp 231-233

Bibliography

pp 234-246