Rome
De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)
TV Flash files “De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)” as a desk essential hour — Rome (2005–2007) on HBO/BBC, season 2, episode 10, aired 2007-03-25, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E10: listed hour 22 of 22 in the Rome guide, last listed hour of season 2. It aired 2007-03-25 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus (No God Can Stop a Hungry Man)” (S02E09). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)”. De Patre Vostro (About Your Father) closes the too-short run — ancient history as tactile craft, the co-production taking a Latin bow.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
With the defeat of the Egyptian fleet at Actium, Mark Antony and Cleopatra retreat to their palace and await their fate. Believing that Cleopatra has taken her life, Mark Antony decides follow her into the afterlife. She has other plans however and is quite prepared to negotiate with Octavian if there is any possibility her life and those of her children will be spared. Cleopatra asks Vorenus to take her son Caesarian to safety and Octavian sends Pullo after them. The old friends are soon together again but are waylaid by bandits. With Vorenus severely wounded, Pullo takes him back to Rome for what he hopes will be a happy reunion with his children.
Viewer FAQ
Where does De Patre Vostro (About Your Father) sit in the Rome guide?
S02E10 is listed hour 22 of 22 — last listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 10.
When did Rome S02E10 air?
De Patre Vostro (About Your Father) aired 2007-03-25 and is listed at 60 minutes.
How much Rome is there?
Two seasons (2005–2007). High production costs and network decisions cut short a planned longer historical canvas.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Two soldiers, Vorenus and Pullo, witness the fall of the Republic as Caesar, Antony, and Octavian rewrite the world. Bruno Heller's HBO/BBC co-production made ancient history tactile: mud, politics, street-level views of epochal events. Only two seasons, lavish enough to become a warning about prestige budgets.
Two soldiers, Vorenus and Pullo, watching the Republic fall from the street, and the group chat still doing "what if more seasons" like it's a ship war. (I said spoiler-free. The cancellation is the spoiler.) Bruno Heller, John Milius, and William J. MacDonald's HBO/BBC co-production premiered in 2005 and lasted two seasons through 2007 despite major production scale — twenty-two episodes, mud and marble, blood and backroom empire. Kevin McKidd and Ray Stevenson lead a street-level view of epochal events beside…
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