【原 名】：Rome
【译 名】：罗马
【类 型】：Drama（情节系列剧）
【首 播】：2005年8月28日
【国 家】：美国 HBO
【语 言】：英语
"Rome" is the saga of two ordinary Roman soldiers and their families. An intimate drama of love and betrayal, masters and slaves, and husbands and wives, it chronicles epic times that saw the fall of a republic and the creation of an empire. The series begins in 52 BC, as Gaius Julius Caesar has completed his masterful conquest of Gaul after eight years of war, and is preparing to return to Rome. He heads home with thousands of loyal battle-hardened men, huge amounts of loot in gold and slaves, and a populist agenda for radical social change. Terrified, the aristocracy threatens to prosecute Caesar for war crimes as soon as he sets foot in Rome. Caesars old friend and mentor, Pompey Magnus, attempts to foment mutiny in order to maintain the balance of power. Two of Caesars soldiers, Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, thwart Pompeys plan and in the process, win the eternal gratitude of Caesar and the Julian clan, affording the two plebian officers an intimate view of the ruling class. The fates of Pullo and Vorenus become entwined with those of Caesar, Mark Antony, Cleopatra and the boy Octavian, a strange and awkward child who, by political guile and bloody force, will become the first emperor of Rome.
公元前52年，罗马共和国建立400年后，罗马已经成为世界上最富有的城市，是拥有100万人口的世界性大都市，也是雏形中的帝国的中心。罗马共和国是建立在分享权利和激烈的个人竞争的基础上的，从来不允许搞个人独裁。但这些共和国的原则基石正在腐败的弥漫和道德的沦丧下逐渐崩溃。统治阶级穷奢极欲、挥霍无度，传统的斯巴达人的戒律和团结已经荡然无存。阶级矛盾恶化，法律和行政体系日渐削弱，权力逐渐被控制在军方手中。
8年后，凯撒完成了对高卢的野蛮征服，凯旋回到罗马。随他而来的是骁勇善战并高度忠诚于他的军团，数量惊人的奴隶、黄金和其他战利品，还有一项极力推进激烈社会变革的民粹主义的议程。贵族们为此惊恐不已，他们威胁说如果凯撒胆敢返回罗马，他们就将以战争罪起诉他。双方力量的制衡点落在了元老院上，而凯撒的老朋友、导师Pompey Magnus在元老院中享有最高的地位。
就在这个关头，凯撒第13军团的两名战士Lucius Vorenus和Titus Pullo被命令去高卢的荒野中找回被偷的军团军旗，这是保证凯撒军团统一指挥行动的标志，他俩也因此被卷入了一场改变古罗马命运的历史事件中。这是一部反映爱与背叛、统治者与奴隶、丈夫与妻子的摄人内心的电视剧，也是一部再现共和国衰落和帝国兴起的多卷罗马史诗