I can’t speak to anyone’s emotional state, but IRL, Agrippa married Octavia’s daughter by Marcellus (who was replaced for the show by Glabius, but who was in fact, alive and well during the events depicted now. He and Octavia had several children as well.) So they have played fast-and-loose with history here.
Did Cicero write that fabulous speech in reality?
Cicero wrote something very similar to that (the Second Phillippic – I linked to it in my post on the episode) and indeed delivered (or wrote, anyway) multiple orations against Marc Antony. (IRL, also, he didn’t run away – his friend persuaded him NOT to appear to deliver the speech in person because they were sure Marc Antony would react as he did on the show!)
They’re called the Philippics because they were modeled on Demosthenes’ speeches against Philip of Macedon, by the way.
I was very angry with Vorenus for being so horrible to Pullo – but I think he knows how horrible he was. And yay for the picture!
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Date: 2007-01-29 03:11 pm (UTC)I can’t speak to anyone’s emotional state, but IRL, Agrippa married Octavia’s daughter by Marcellus (who was replaced for the show by Glabius, but who was in fact, alive and well during the events depicted now. He and Octavia had several children as well.) So they have played fast-and-loose with history here.
Did Cicero write that fabulous speech in reality?
Cicero wrote something very similar to that (the Second Phillippic – I linked to it in my post on the episode) and indeed delivered (or wrote, anyway) multiple orations against Marc Antony. (IRL, also, he didn’t run away – his friend persuaded him NOT to appear to deliver the speech in person because they were sure Marc Antony would react as he did on the show!)
They’re called the Philippics because they were modeled on Demosthenes’ speeches against Philip of Macedon, by the way.
I was very angry with Vorenus for being so horrible to Pullo – but I think he knows how horrible he was. And yay for the picture!