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Episode Guide
Caesarion
Series: Rome
Series Progress: Episode 11 of 2055% Completed
Synopsis
Caesar (Ciarán Hinds) goes to Egypt, and goes to the court of the boy king, Ptolemy XIII (Shaka Bunsie), to demand that he turn over Pompey. Instead, Pompey's head is produced, and Caesar is not grateful, but enraged. He in turn demands that Ptolemy turn over the man who killed Pompey. The Egyptians have their own political strife, with Ptolemy's sister, Cleopatra (Lyndsey Marshal), having claimed the throne. Caesar decides to stay in Egypt and mediate the dispute in order to insure Egypt's grain supply to Rome isn't affected. But he sends Mark Antony (James Purefoy) and most of his men back to Rome. Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) and Pullo (Ray Stevenson) are sent to find Cleopatra, before Ptolemy's advisors have her killed. They rescue her, and she immediately plans to seduce Caesar, but on the road back to Alexandria, Cleopatra decides that since she is "between the tides" she must conceive a child immediately, before she reaches Caesar, and pass the child off as Caesar's own. She makes a surprising choice for the father. Upon returning to Alexandria, Cleopatra and Caesar have Ptolemy's advisors executed, which causes a massive public uproar, and Caesar ends up under siege in Alexandria for many months. Back in Rome, Brutus (Tobias Menzies) receives a cold welcome from Servilia (Lindsay Duncan) due to his capitulation. Antony keeps a sharp eye on Brutus and Cicero (David Bamber) while Caesar is away.
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📊 Series Binge Profile
Total Content Density: 18 hours 20 minutes (20 episodes)
Intensity Rating: Moderate Burn - Story-dense episodes. Best spaced out over a week.
Binge Milestones
1 episode/day: 20 days
3 episodes/day: 7 days
5 episodes/day: 4 days
Episodes (20)
- S01E01 - The Stolen Eagle
- S01E10 - Triumph
- S01E11 - The Spoils
- S01E12 - Kalends of February
- S01E02 - How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic
- S01E03 - An Owl in a Thornbush
- S01E04 - Stealing from Saturn
- S01E05 - The Ram Has Touched the Wall
- S01E06 - Egeria
- S01E07 - Pharsalus
- S01E08 - Caesarion Viewing
- S01E09 - Utica
- S02E01 - Passover
- S02E02 - Son of Hades
- S02E03 - These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero
- S02E04 - Testudo et Lepus (The Tortoise and the Hare)
- S02E06 - Philippi
- S02E07 - Death Mask
- S02E08 - A Necessary Fiction
- S02E09 - Deus Impetitio Esuritori Nullus (No God Can Stop a Hungry Man)