Rome 1×3 Reaction

2 thoughts on "Rome 1×3 Reaction"

1. What is Rick talking about??

   This is CENTURIES before Rome starts being sacked on a regular basis. At this point, it had only been sacked once, and that was a long time ago to the characters in this show.

   Rick, this is 49 BCE, not 410 CE.

2. Rome was actually fairly defensible. Hannibal famously marched up and down the whole of Italy but could never approach Rome itself because he didn’t have a force capable of overcoming the defenses. The trick is that standing armies weren’t really present in Rome at most times because there wasn’t a need and it would cost way too much. The legions needed to defend Rome could presumably arrive at Rome before any threat could. That’s why it was a shock that Caesar was moving so fast. His army would be in Rome before Pompeii’s could arrive to defend it. Of course, without the treasury, Caesar couldn’t afford to stay in Rome either, which is why Pompeii doesn’t really care about leaving it, and the Senators only care about their own skins (except Cato who might actually believe his own BS). Rome was sacked a lot in the beginning of its history and nearer the end of the Western Empire, but not so much during the late Republic and early Empire except by its own armies during civil wars.