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  • Wow, all the characters were great. Well done.

  • What did he put on chest? Tattoo? Serpent?

    Mark Anthony I swear... listen to him about "WHERE TO DIE".

    I DIE ROMAN!!!

  • Men who like ALEXANDER... once stood here. Hahaha

    Notice how Vorenus isnt drinking but looked at as a PRAETORIAN for a General/Commander/Family. Hes more FOCUSED now that his slut wife is out of the way. And his kids are with relatives? Ya... hes at 100% combat "efficency" to drive on with mission.

  • "no this wont do must use a proper Roman Sword" "damn good sword"

  • @vipersrt10x Haha "I DIE ROMAN"

  • Did Vorenus put coins in Antony's hands after he died, and if so, why?

  • @squamish4244 its so that Antony may pass into the underworld, or something like that, Its has something to do with the passage to the after life

  • @Chuggers456 You're right, I think it's so he can pay the boatman of the river between this world and the underworld.

  • @squamish4244 to pay the boat man to get to hades. i know the greeks did this but i am unsure about the romans

  • This was an epic performance by James Purefoy, pure emotion and loss extremely well done.

  • And damn. The actor that plays Antony is hawt :3

  • I kind of feel bad for Mark at the beginning ;w; I always happen to love the bad or evil character.

  • @darkria4 Antony was not evil nor was Augustus, They were both fighting for power.

  • @instinct983 Well... Yeah.... But he wasn't exactly 'good', either.

  • "You have a rotten. . .sssoUL".- I am so using that on somebody.

  • "All my life, I've been fearful of defeat and now that it has come, its not near as terrible as I'd expected. The sun still shines. Water still tastes good. Glory is all well and good but.. life is enough ne?"

    -Mark Antony

    After the Battle of Actium, 31 BC.

  • "it's been an honour, serving with you, sir"

  • I am sorry, but the Egyptians were not Arabs. THe Arabs did not take over Egypt until the 600's. So while their may have been mixing of the Ptolemaic's and Egyptians. It certainly was not Arabs at this time. Moreover, the Ptolemaic's did indeed adopt the practices of the Egyptians to include marrying witin the family. Cleopatra was married to her brother. Her parents were related as were her grandparents. I propose you and everyone else has thier time line off. by centuries.

  • Cleopatra was not an Arab, She was of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, which was one of Alexander the Great's generals. Perhaps he was not Greek but Macedonian. Also, Greeks and Macedonians are not the same people. Other than they are both Indo-European. The Macedonians copied Greek culture and spread it through Alexander's conquest.

  • @jdpage01 Which makes them a Hellenistic culture, the Ptolemaic Dynasty founded by Alexander's General, Ptolemy, had accepted the egyptian culture as Alexander had, and Cleopatra certainly was of Greek/Macedonian descent but this was hundreds of years after (305 B.C.-30 B.C.), the bloodline was probably corrupted so much, so you have to take these things into consideration. We couldn't know if she was Arab or not, because we did not know her.

  • I feel most sorry for Vorenus, an old fashioned Catonian Roman reduced to watching his once proud master blubbering like a child in weird oriental attire with the stench of death everywhere.

    It is beneath him, Pullo through sheer luck ended up backing the right man.

  • I love the scene where Vorenus wipes the makeup from Antony's eyes and undoes the clasps of the Egyptian jewelry he was wearing when he died. Little touches like that are what made the series great.

    Antony died Roman.

  • Egyptians themselves were not and are not 'black'. Even if we think of them as 'Arabs' there were never enough Arabs to change the population seriously. They only took over. 'Black' Pharoahs from Nubia put Egypt in order when it fell apart and they were noted as Nubian. There are enough ancient Egyptian paintings to know how they saw themselves and it was not 'black', nor was it European features.

  • @Saiaton Exactly. They were Arabs. Modern day Egyptians would be a cross between the Ancient Egyptians and the Arabs that came into Egypt during the rise of Islam.

  • Vorenus=Soap MacTavish's past life.

  • My favorite character of these two seasons without a doubt... The only one brave enough when all these pussies come on him. Love the scene with the sad music too when he tells Cleopatra that they had a great life, tears in my eyes at these moments. Epic season, epic serie, I so hope there would be a season 3 T__T

  • @gankness Ciaran Hinds was a splendid Caesar. The best I have ever seen on a screen.

  • Cleopatra was the daughter of a Greek governor general that ruled over Egypt during Greek occupation. Greece conquered Egypt many years previous.

  • @1gortklaatu macedonian general not greek. in every western university you would get laughed at for calling macedonian general as greek.

  • @TubeBillionaire The Macedonians were a greek people you moron, they spoke a Greek dialogue. The Macedonian royal family of the Argead dynasty traced their ancestry to the Southern Greek city of Argos thus getting their "Argead" name, furthermore Alexander I of Macedon was allowed to participate in the Olympics, something only Greeks were allowed to do. It is you who would be laughed at you stupid slav stealing Greek history.

  • @TubeBillionaire LOL What an idiot, epic fail... silly slav from former yugoslavia who wants to be recognized as "Macedonian" LOL.. Get an education you fool.. Ancient as well as modern Macedonians were and are Greeks.. Ancient Macedonia lies in Greece, while you poor slavs are known as Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.. a geographicaly expanded term of the 19th century... keep dreaming of any connection to Macedonia, poor slav.. you are a laugh to history. Only idiots can believe you.

  • @TheBaronofBallstein Hey! Slavs are cool but you are right The FYRoM has NOTHING to do with the real Macedonians.. but I don't believe Slavs are a laugh to history. I don't know about Southern Slavs..but Kieven Rus' was a great thing..beautiful culture came from it.

  • @Nicollie1062 Hey I did not say Slavs are not cool (my wife is Polish) But when it comes to history, we cannot accept anything but the truth, these people are Slavic, so I remind them.. Other than that. Slavs and Bulgarians should be offended that these people reject their own heritage, and attempt to force their way on a foreign one. If I were a Slav, I would be offended that these fellow Slavs reject their own heritage to be something else..

  • m surprised that mark anothony is crying for sum1

  • you know what the thing i hate about holywood is that they make clepatra white

  • @ADRIANAIRE

    Cleopatra was white. She was greek...

  • @hummercj: What I hate about Hollywood and the American educational system is that they convince people of the most incredible nonsense, in an effort to be politically correct. As you correctly stated, Cleopatra VII was NOT African. She was the descendant of Macedonians who were established as the rulers over Egypt when Alexander the Great conquered it.

  • edgyt is  in africa i thought you knew that

  • @ADRIANAIRE that doesn't eman shes black. Libya, numantia, carthago- all mediterrean

  • @ADRIANAIRE

    Nice troll bro. Good Job.

  • @ADRIANAIRE That's probably because she was. She was a direct descendant of Macedonians who were established as the rulers over Egypt when Alexander the Great conquered it. And considering the arabic and most north African people are caucasoid (Ie: share the same facial structure as europeans whcih is considered the establishing point of race) then even if she was of egyptian blood she would still be "white". There is "whiteness" other than european pale you know.

  • wow. his heart is crushed, his will is broken, and he has given up all hope, and yet Mark Antony's last moments are STILL EPIC!

  • I'm......a little disappointed that Antony never seemed overly concerned about his children, either the ones he fathered with Cleopatra and the 'alleged' child of his with

    Octavia.

    Either way, brilliant death scene by James Purefoy.

    Also, yeah it must be love in order to sit on a dead man's lap and kiss him. Quelle passione

  • How good of Vorenus to dress Antony in his Roman garb, not in those shitty Egyptian clothes.

  • Anything to get rid of this fucking hangover

    even in death he makes jokes :)

  • sure octavian may be a monster, but he was the first emperor of the Roman fuzzackin' Empire

  • Why in the stomach? Why didn´t he place the sword on his chest? Directly in the heart with such a big sword and its over in 2 seconds. But in the stomach....? This seems painful...

  • @daswenzel It' to go up under the ribcage to the heart.

  • does anyone know what the music is called after anthony dies and lucius begins putting on his roman armour? <3 x

  • good riddance

  • 0:42-0:46-The Roman version of, "Best Cry Ever!"

  • It's amazing how Alexander was a legend even among legendary Romans. Anyway, everything is dust

  • @Empeinmortal Yeah though Octavian accidentally ended up breaking the nose off of the corpse of Alexander the Great, so much for respect eh?

  • @SlyNicolai yeah, i know. Even so, all the versions i've heard are somewhat like R&J :P

  • I wonder....if all men were gay...and women were simply breeders...how simple life would be!

  • @Kenito615m Kind of... barbaric? You would leave half of our population cast aside to simply fulfill a very artificial role. Simple, maybe. Still, I'd rather women be what they are, we need them for completion.

  • @Kenito615m the same could be said of the reverse.

  • @Kenito615m That sounds horrible

  • their story sounds oddly like a twisted romeo and juliet

  • this cleopatra is lame

  • As I see him weeping I remember their first meeting and the two slaps she gave him, how has love changed great Antony is just so moving

  • amazing, scene, amazing acting, amazing show. Can't wait 4 the film.

  • Wait.. in real life, didn't this happen the other way around? Anthony killed himself first.

  • @IceEyedBlackWolf Watch the whole video?

  • @TyranidsBJ Lol, I did. Yeah.. the comment was a bit too early.

  • @IceEyedBlackWolf

    Anthony does die first here. Cleopatra tricked him into believing she died first.

  • @DarkFilmDirector I know, I just didn't watch the whole video at first. haha. 

  • @IceEyedBlackWolf he did.. she tricked him

  • Damn.. that's so sad.

  • Not trying to be a know-it-all but, I'm pretty sure Antonius died first.

  • I love how it totallyjust glosses over the chinese dragon tattoo, :D anachronistic much?

  • sounds like she is having a spasm starting at 8:26 lol

  • In the legion ur taught not to cry, no one can stop u from that, there will always come a time when ur strength will dwindle

  • This series is like the best thing ever. Why the hell did they cancel it? It is a disservice to humanity

  • @fluff125 To be fair they simply couldn't afford it, they couldn't even afford the second series so they had some notice

  • that took the breath away from me

  • The actor playing Antony is a hunk, but the real Antony was already in his 50s when he died.

  • @buddmar

    the two aren't mutually exclusive, y'know.

  • @ruthmeb You are absolutely right, and my comment was not a very thoughtful one. In fact Antony was a very handsome man.

  • @buddmar Actually, Mark purefoy was in his mid 40's during this show so....Im gonna guess that a guy like antony getting plenty of exercise might have still been a looker back in those days.

  • @anaihilator Good point! I stand to be corrected! Both contemporary descriptions and coin images give evidence that Mark Antony was indeed a very good looking man.

  • wow anthony had a tatto on his chest

  • after lost battle of Actrium Antonius comitted suicide. Many days later Cleopatra killed herself as she could not expected being queen of Egypt again,

  • @ozeangruen Two weeks later, really.

  • @xxxJeahxxx thank you :))

  • @xxxJeahxxx This is one of the frustrating parts of studying history. We can never be 100% sure on such matters. The various sources differ.

  • How much more drama can simpleton Lucius Vorenus take??

  • @cjaygrove Simpleton? There is no evidence of your baseless claim that this man, Vorenus, is a simpleton. Not exactly schooled with the women however that does not justify your accusation. Perhaps, you assume that a disciplined solider is a simpleton. Nevertheless, one thing is certain, you're no match for a solider such as Vorenus both in strength and virtue.

  • One of most remarkable things about this show, if not the most, is just how perfectly it captures the essence of the Romans and their culture. Listen how Antony wants a Roman blade, to die Roman, and is killed by the embodiment of Roman virtue, Vorenus. Then the scene where Vorenus wipes the makeup off his face, takes of his Egyptian shit, and puts on his Roman armor and rings. That's called Romanitas, the idea in Roman culture that Rome is the absolute shit and everybody else sucks. See Virgil.

  • Death was nothing for the ancients short bloody lives were fine, it was about honor, power or glory, how times have changed. Today we want long lives with out the need for honor or glory.

    Personally I am up in the air about either perspective.

  • @TheObsidianhunter i would rather die young and be rememberd trough history that die old and be forgotten in

    50 years time.

  • @TheIcelandicPatriot Ah but what of the Alternative? Old and remembered...

    Enjoy the fame or notoriety, before passing to dust.

  • @TheObsidianhunter true but if you can pick only one out of two options, 1, die young and be remembered trough history or die old but when your children are deat and there children aswell your name will be loss.

  • I cried. 

  • Credit to the ancients-they knew how to die.

  • This is how they said FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- 2000 years ago

  • lol i didnt know they had cussing back then lol!

  • @sammoTboy11 Me neither. I mean, imagine " Fuck you Brutus!" or "That fucking Caesar, he will pay...", i really didnt know.

  • amazing. Anthony, tough soldier and mean son of a bitch reduced to a sobbing wreck. Love can do this - in any day and age!

  • @jegspillerpiano lol I agree, drugs and alcohol can do that to you too!

  • I would never have to courage to do this.

  • I just saw on one of the documentaries, that Cleopatra took her own life while in Rome?? If that is true than every other documentary, and movie, and film, is wrong???????????

  • @MegaWolfgang Cleopatra died in her mausoleum in Alexandria, Egypt. 

  • @RobsiejB That's what I always believed.

  • Why does she tell Antony to kill himself in the note, and then she's devastated when she finds out about it?

  • @powerman923 she thought she could still save her crown and country. she hoped to seduce Octavin, like Ceasr, and Antony. But after their one meeting she knew she would get nowhere with him and it was indeed the end.

  • @powerman923

    how old are you? She hopes if anthony commits suicide that the other dude will spare her and her kids etc. but when she finds out he wont she realizes anthony killed himself for nothing and she has no other choice but to do the same!

  • @Isthisthelongestname I am a whole 17 turning 18 in 35 days :D

    Ya, I don't follow alot in this series.

  • @powerman923 seriously??? I felt like I knew about Roman History since I was eight... Well it's not your fault. Nobody cares about your education. They only care about your test scores

  • Only one of Cleo's servants is shown, why wasn't the other one with her?

  • When Agrippa says "Oh!" I can just the see the expression "Well Duh"

  • Even if they make a 3rd season, we wont have the 2 best characters in there like Mark Anthony and Lucius Vorenus, a shame!

    But i still want season 3 cause we have titus pulo :D

  • @ForsakenLogitek It's too late for another season, obviously. Idealy, had they been able to strech this into 4 seasons then it would have not seemed so condensed. Still a very good show, though. Season 1 should have been just Caesar VS Pompey, season 2 should have been Caesar as dictator ending in his assassination, season 3 should have been Antony & Octavian VS Brutus & Cassius and season 4 with Antony &Cleopatra VS Octavian.

  • @SavageVandar But it seems there will be a movie of Rome, 4 years after where the series left of in germany.

    If this is true, that would be awesome

  • @ForsakenLogitek Ray Stevenson said in a interview that a "Rome" movie would be made, probably it would take place later in the reign of Augustus, maybe some of the other cool characters won't be in it.

  • I know that Mark Antony was a wicked person but after watching him mourn like that I actually felt kind of sorry for him. The way the actor played him showed how much he loved Cleopatra. Too bad she was only manipulating him so she could survive although that didn't work out as she planned! HAHA!

  • "she said I had a rotten soul"

    "ah"

    hahahaha

  • @glemmstengal Cleopatra should've slapped Octavian too, that would've been funny.

  • i hated Mark Anthony from the very start of the series.... when we see him standing in the court yard naked.... geting washed.... He thinks his alot better than he actually is !!!

  • Grandios!........lol... fucking hangover

  • i love how nothing hurts octavian except someone telling him he has a rotten soul.

  • @happycompy He was only upset that he couldn't make a witty comeback.

  • lol his muffled 'oh' at 1:27

  • those egyptians knew their poisons.

  • vorenus went all out to make sure antony died a true roman.

  • Marcus Antonius, what a man. No equal in history...2nd to the one of the world's greatest generals, husband to one of the most powerful women in history. A man's man for history. And you just have to love how Vorenus took care after his death. What a scene.

  • Marcus Antonius, what a man. No equal in history...2nd to the one of the world's greatest generals, husband to one of the most powerful women in history. A man's man for history.

  • Marcus Antonius, what a man. No equal in history...2nd to the one of the world's greatest generals, husband to one of the most powerful women in history.

  • It's kinda homoerotic, no?

  • James Purefoy's hot!

  • any thing to get rid of this fucking hang over -- thats 1 of the greatest 1 liners in film history

  • this has been the best mini series to date in TV HISTORY spartacus is 3rd rate compared to this--- 1 mans opinon

  • they really loved each other :(

  • @goldpinkice sad Cleo and Antony's story ended in tragedy.

  • The hug of death.

  • im confused, now foes she die before or after him? cuz he looks pretty dead beside her there...

  • Dude's a fantastic actor. 

  • so sad...all the deceptions and lies which brought an end to these two...grhh

  • This dude played a great Mark Antony!!!!!! Period!!!!

  • boooooooooooobeeeeeezzzzzzzz

  • i was so glad when they both died.

  • Hahaha, I love how Antony is ruled by his emotions

  • She's hot even when she's dying.

  • James Purefoy at his best!

  • Hahahaaahahahahahaha.

  • Octavian: "She said I had a rotten soul."

    Agrippa: "Oh."

    Agrippa to self: "Well, there's no denying that."

  • I love this HBO series, I hope they bring it back. The actors were excellent. James Purefoy was great.

  • James Purefoy was amazing as Mark Antony.

  • any chance anyone could upload the debauchery scene from this episode?

  • "She said I have a rotten soul." - "Aha." XD

  • have they made more seasons than just one and two?

    it ends with augustus taking power right?

  • @aveltkam they canceleed the show after season 2 ended which im very sad about :0 it was amazing

  • Cleopatra royally screwed Egypt. She murdered and fucked her way to the throne and led a hostile army right into it`s bosom.

    And still, for the most bizarre reason I find her story compelling

  • she came from a long line of stunningly screwed up father and grandfathers...one of them cut up his son and gave it to the mother on her birthday....they were descended from the greek general that alexander left in place ...fascinating...dont be too hard on her...perhaps we all would have been just the same under those circumstances...:(

  • Cleopatra actually did everything she could to protect her kingdom, she considered herself ver ymuch an Egyptian Pharoah, not a Greek queen

    Sure she killed her entire family but she was a woman in a mans world and had an empire twice her kingdoms size and power knocking on her door, she did what she had to do for her country, family and her throne

  • @scallywag86 She did not murder (Exepte for Arsinoe and Ptolemy XIII) and fucked only once to get to the throne, and her army was under Antony's command, not entirely hers

  • Antony was one of the greatest folk heroes the Romans had, even in his lifetime. If life and death with Cleopatra

    reduced him to this, he was either desperately in love, or incredibly co dependent.

  • do they show octavian kill caesar's son later?

  • Mark Antony had committed suicide and Cleopatra followed his example by committing suicide on August 12, 30 BC. Caesarion's guardians, including his tutor, either were themselves lured by false promises of mercy into returning the boy to Alexandria or perhaps even betrayed him; the records are unclear. Octavian had Caesarion executed there, with the words "Two Caesars is one too many". No events concerning his death have been documented; it is popularly thought that he was strangled.

  • No, they don't. In the series, Octavian does want Caesarion killed because he wants to ensure he is the only living Caesar. However, the man he sends to kill him, Titus Pullo, is the boy's true father.

    In the first series, it's shown that Cleopatra ends up secretly fucking Titus Pullo while she has her affair with Caesar, and it's from that coupling that Caesarion is sired.

    Pullo ends up telling Octavian that he killed the boy, and because of their friendship over the years, he believes him.

  • Thanks, that's the answer i wanted!

  • @DitzyStephanie I still believe Caesarion was Caesar's.

  • @HistoryLover1550 Yeah, I was just explaining it in the context of the show. Pullo was an almost entirely fictional character.

  • @DitzyStephanie I know :)

  • @kleash no

  • Antony is HOT!

  • they say Cleopatra did not kill herself because Antony did it was because she didnt want to be paraded in Rome like a trophy

  • @moonprincess95 I thought it was both?