imperiivm:ROME fancast: the guys who didn’t appear in your history lessons, part I/?.STEPHEN DILLANE

imperiivm:ROME fancast: the guys who didn’t appear in your history lessons, part I/?.STEPHEN DILLANE as GAIUS MARIUS, ❛The farmer of Arpinium.❛When, that is, he was quite young and living in the country, he had caught in  his cloak a falling EAGLE’s nest, which had seven young ones in it; at sight  of this, his parents were amazed, and made enquiries of the seers, who told them  that their son would be most illustrious of men, and was DESTINED to receive the highest  command and power seven times.- PLUTARCH.PAMELA BOWEN as AURELIA COTTA, ❛The next mother of the Gracchi.❛With scrupulous piety and modesty she regulated not only the boy’s studies  and occupations, but even his recreations and games. Thus it was, as  tradition says, that the mothers of the Gracchi, of CAESAR, of Augustus,  Cornelia, Aurelia, Atia, directed their children’s education and reared the greatest  of sons. - TACITUS.SIMON MERELLS as CRASSUS, ❛Rome’s richest Roman.❛And yet when he was further on in years, he was accused of criminal intimacy   with Licinia, one of the vestal virgins, and Licinia was formally prosecuted by a   certain Plotius. Now Licinia was the owner of a pleasant villa in the suburbs which   Crassus wished to get at a low price, and it was for this REASON that he was   forever hovering about the woman and paying his court to her, until he fell under the   ABOMINABLE suspicion. And in a way it was his avarice that absolved him from  the charge of corrupting the vestal, and he was acquitted by the judges. But he did  not let Licinia go until he had acquired her property. - PLUTARCH.BRETT TUCKER as POMPEIUS, ❛More people worship the rising than the setting sun. ❛In this way, then, Pompey was elated, and his CONFIDENCE filled   him with so great a contempt for his adversary that he mocked at those   who were afraid of the war; and when some said that if CAESAR should   MARCH upon the city, they did not see any FORCES with which to defend    it from him, with a smiling countenance and calm mien he bade him be in no   concern; “For,” said he, “in whatever part of Italy I STAMP upon the ground,   there will spring up ARMIES of foot and horse.- PLUTARCH.SAM CLAFLIN as CLODIUS, ❛One of the most innovative urban politicians in western history.  ❛Lesbius is beauty-man: why not? when Lesbia wills him  Better, Catullus, than thee backed by the whole of thy clan.   Yet may that beauty-man sell all his clan with Catullus,   An of three noted names greeting salute he can gain. - CATULLUS.PETER CAPALDI as CATO, ❛He talks as if he were in Plato’s republic instead of Romulus’ cesspool. ❛When Caesar was eagerly engaged in a great struggle with Cato and the   ATTENTION of the senate was fixed upon the two men, a little note was   brought in from outside to Caesar. Cato tried to fix SUSPICION upon the   matter and alleged that it had something to do with the CONSPIRACY, and   bade him read the writing aloud. Then Caesar handed the note to Cato, who   stood near him. But when Cato had read the note, which was an unchaste   letter from his half-sister Servilia to Caesar, with whom she was passionately   and guiltily in love, he THREW it to Caesar, saying, “Take it, thou sot,” and   then resumed his speech.- PLUTARCH.NATALIE DORMER as CLODIA, ❛The Medea of the Palatine.❛But if you prefer me to take a more refined tone, this is how I shall deal with you.   I’ll take that old man off the scene: he’s harsh, practically uncouth. So I’ll choose   one of our young moderns, in particular, your baby brother. He’s a real man of the   world in matters of that sort. He loves you very much. Because of some INDEFINABLE   nervousness, some groundless FEARS of the night, I suppose as a little fellow he always   used to sleep with you, his elder sister. - CICERO.VIVA BIANCA as FULVIA, ❛Granddaughter of Gaius Gracchus.❛When, however, the head of Cicero also was brought to them one day (he had been  overtaken and slain in flight), Antony uttered many BITTER reproaches against it and  then ordered it to be exposed on the rostra more prominently than the rest, in order  that it might be seen in the very place where Cicero had so often been heard  DECLAIMING against him, together with his right hand, just as it had been cut off.  And Fulvia took the head into her hands before it was removed, and after abusing it  spitefully and spitting upon it, set it on her knees, opened the mouth, and pulled out  the tongue, which she pierced with the pins that she used for her hair, at the same time  uttering many brutal jests. - CASSIUS DIO. -- source link
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