Following his naval defeat at Actium, Marc Antony returns to Egypt, where he and Cleopatra settle into a world of debauchery. Octavian tries to use Pullo as leverage to Vorenus…

Things pick up shortly after Caesar’s murder. Octavian wants to keep his family from fleeing the city so he devises a plan. News of this makes Antony happy so he…

Cleopatra arrives in Rome to pay her homage to Caesar, and to seek legitimization for Caesarion. Egypt’s queen causes further complications between Anthony and Atia, who still struggles with Servilia….

Brutus and Cassius struggle to raise foreign armies to oppose the Cesarean party. Mark Antony’s plans to change his post-consul proconsular governorship from Macedonia to Gaul are derailed when Cicero…

Pullo races to find Vorenus with news of his family’s fate. Servilia’s plans to eliminate a rival exact a high price from her. Cicero is astonished when Octavian sends word…

Despite Pullo’s advice, Vorenus and his family return to the Collegium with his family who is reunited, and cleansed of their ordeal. Octavian is denied a triumph and urges Cicero…

Vorenus receives orders to plunge Rome into a bloodbath the likes that have not been seen since the dictatorship of Sulla. Octavia reveals her secret to Atia, and the armies…

Antony’s nature reasserts itself, and challenges his alliance with Octavian. Timon and Levi set themselves against Herod’s plans. Servilia’s public displays of grief leave Atia unsettled. Gaia uses Pullo’s punishment…

Octavian proclaims a new era of virtue in Rome, a program that his family and subordinates find impossible to obey. Vorenus is sent on a mission after a missing shipment…

The people of Rome are starving. There have been many grain shortages over the past few months, but things have gotten particularly bad. In hopes of keeping the people from…