Son of Hades

Rome episode
title= Son of Hades


caption=Cleopatra wants Mark Antony to make Caesarion a legal son of Caesar.
season=2 (2007)
episode=14
air_date=January 21, 2007 (HBO)
June 24, 2007 (BBC)|
writer=Bruno Heller
director=Allen Coulter
setting=Rome
time_frame=44 BC
link= [http://www.hbo.com/rome/episode/season2/episode14.html HBO episode summary]
prev=Passover
next=These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Son of Hades" is the second episode of the second season of the television series "Rome".

Plot Summary

Mark Antony is ruling Rome, but Octavian is demanding his inheritance. Meantime Cleopatra comes to Rome and asks for her son Caesarion to be recognized as Caesar's son.

Lucius Vorenus is full of misery, having lost both his wife and his children, and also failed in his duty to Julius Caesar. Titus Pullo asks Mark Antony to help. Mark Antony sets Vorenus the task of ending the gang wars that have broken out in the Aventine after the death of Erastes Fulmen. He uses the goddess Concordia to persuade the gang bosses to meet: they have a superstitious regard for the goddess. When his reasonable offers are rejected by some of them, he commits sacrilege, breaking the image and declaring himself 'Son of Hades'. [ [http://www.moviemistakes.com/tv5257 Rome mistakes, goofs and bloopers] ] Pullo is alarmed by this. Vorenus thinks that the gods can do nothing more to him, so he has nothing to fear.

Meantime Octavian makes a public announcement he will pay Caesar's legacy to the common people. When challenged, he admits to using borrowed money. This leads to a violent quarrel with Antony, who nearly kills him.

Cicero, who has been reluctantly working with Antony, tells Servilia that the quarrel has an opportunity. She wants to act at once and he advises her to wait.

Octavian goes to join Agrippa. He passes a horse-drawn cage full of slaves, which he takes no notice of. Among these slaves are the children of Vorenus and his sister-in-law, having been captured by Erastes Fulmen.

Inaccuracies and errors

* Cleopatra did not come to Rome after Caesar's death. Some authorities say she actually was living in Rome when he was assassinated and immediately left upon his murder, never to return. Cleopatra met Mark Antony in Tarsus in 41 BC.

*The end of the episode places Octavian heading to Campania to meet Marcus Agrippa. Both Octavian and Agrippa had in fact been in school at Apollonia when Caesar had been assassinated.

References

External links

* [http://www.hbo.com/rome/episode/season2/episode14.html HBO summary]