Lucius comes back to the arena twenty years on, with rhinos and a sea battle in the Colosseum.
Petronius as a hallucination: Nero's Rome with no moral centre at all.
Two legionaries through the fall of the Republic; HBO and the BBC's expensive Caesar.
Derek Jacobi as the stammering emperor and Sian Phillips as Livia; the BBC's 1976 Rome.
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