HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!

All copyright's to HBO. And please, make the 3rd season for Rome.

[ERIC-dinh]

Shame on the house of HBO for canceling ROME. Shame.

[sipjedekat]

The intro to this scene makes it even better. Ceasar endures the antics of the boy king and his sleazy advisors for the sake of diplomacy. Once he sees the head of his great rival and fellow Roman general, his demeanor changes from casual disdain to utter contempt. All niceties are gone.
Flawless acting performance.

[Anzor]

When you're so badass, that even people with swords are scared when you're yelling at their king and his court.

[lightknight]

When you play Rome Total War and you’re best General, ten stars, ends up dying on the battlefield. He Was a Consul of Rome!

[LookHereMars]

Shame on the House of Ptolemies for such barbarity. Shame.

[primarchvulcan]

The only reason why I would teach history is to shout HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME when one of the students asks who Pompey was.

[MrLolxu]

That was actually how the event went down as recorded tho.

Despite the civil war and with Caesar obviously winning, Pompey fled towards the Libyan coast and headed towards Egypt to seek protection while Caesar was chasing him. As per culture, being that both were consul of Rome, only one can take one's life themselves if the other gives it up upon a loss on the battlefield and Caesar knew that. Thus his aim of going to Egypt was to force Pompey to retire his old bones from politics and pass all his men, military might and promise full support for Caesar's own political campaign.

When he reached Alexandria, he was told that Ptolemy XIII has "a gift" for him and presumably was the news of Pompey's whereabout and was okay to a parlay with intention to surrender thus Caesar went.
When Caesar entered, he didn't show much interest in the small talks of what the Pharoah's men had to say but still had to play along but kept prodding about his business in Egypt. Suddenly, the men of the pharoah brought out a gold plate with a colche over it and presented it to Caesar. Caesar, bemused, opened it only to realize that the head of Pompey was right on the plate and in the pure shock, he recoiled back and nearly stumbled.
Ptolemy was confused and asked if Caesar liked the gift. Caesar, now furious, started lashing out the famous line "No matter what, he's a consul of Rome. A CONSUL OF ROME and no consul will ever, EVER be treated like a barbarian like that outside of Rome!", took Pompey's head carefully, sent it back to Rome and buried it with full military and state honors.

[cosminca]

I'd support a petition to reboot Rome with the initial intended 6 seasons and Bruno Heller at the helm.

[carybleasdale]

I love how this scene perfectly sums up the Roman attitude. You could be a Roman thief, a roman tyrant, a roman nobody, but Jupiter help the barbarian- prince or king or priest- who lays his hand on you.

If you need to be dealt with, the ROMANS will deal with you. Everyone else hands off.

The funniest, IMO, example of this is inthe New Testament. Paul is arrested in Jerusalem, condemned by the crowd, and literally right as they're about to start whipping him he goes "btw...do you have permission to do this to a Roman Citizen?"

They immediately let him go and freak out that they so much as arrested him.

[aulisyt]

In a parallel universe, Rome runs for 8 seasons and Game of Thrones is cancelled after 2 seasons.

[Johnnythefirst]

Ciaran Hinds was literally born to play this Role. He makes the whole first season by himself.

[saifrb]

Shame on YouTube for removing the original video shame

[grant.]

It doesn't matter how bad the civil war is, you NEVER allow foreign groups kill a head-of-state. An attack on a Consul is an attack on Rome, and decapitating that consul and serving it to another would be utterly sacrilege.

[kristofevarsson]

I think this is secretly also a case of "Never meet your heroes". The House of Ptolemies were Pharaohs of Egypt since Egypt bequeathed itself to Alexander during his conquest of Persia, which he passed the title on to one of his best friends Ptolemy. Being essentially the last surviving Kingdoms of the Diadochi, Ptolemaic Egypt was very prestigious in the eyes of the Roman Republic, who admired Alexander. Caesar too admired Alexander, but when he discovered just how Macedonian politics worked with Pompey's severed head, he was absolutely stunned that something he might've respected and admired for so many years could turn out to be as barbaric as the tribes of Europe just beyond Rome's own borders.

[Johnnythefirst]

Ciaran Hinds is such an imposing actor. Absolutely perfect for this part.

[LevCallahan]

This really illustrates the real Caesar here. It's documented by multiple people of the time, including his generals and Cicero, that he was not only super respectful when it came to authority figures of other factions and nations, 99% of the time he spared their lives. One of the only exceptions was Vercingetorix, for obvious reasons.

[karatheloremaster]

I just realized Posca move forward to protect Ceasar when Egyptians about to unsheath their weapons.

[zothanmawiapachuau]

5 people don't know that Pompey was a consul of Rome.

[stevengreen]

The crazy thing is this actually happened. You would think the Ptolemies would have simply captured his enemy. Then sent a messenger letting him know. " Hey Caesar what's up !? " " We caught your enemy what do you want us to do with him? " He was worth more alive as he would have given them some leverage politically.

[fishingislife]

Imagine if this show just kept going on to the final days of the eastern Roman Empire that would be the most epic show of all time