Infamous meeting between Atia and Livia

the moment that perhaps the two greatest charachters of the programmes I Claudius and Rome meet face to face

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Film & Animation

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• atia
• livia
• infamous
• meeting
• rome
• hbo

[Billythedog123]

I love how the happy ending of this show is "thank god attia is a crazy bitch again." A+ Rome

[Mizukage6]

Best scene of both seasons, the real life actor said so herself, "Atia could rule Rome if she weren't a woman," and this scene proves why! :)

[K3yB04dG000n]

I hated her character throughout the show but after this i liked her haha

[2serveand2protect]

Throughout ALL the serial Aetia IS a "crazy bitch", and I haven't expected from her saying to her "Imperial son's wife" something like: ...REMEMBER...MANY MUCH BETTER WOMEN THAN YOU TRIED TO DESTROY ME ...

....AND THEY'RE ALL DEAD!!!

She's NOT any "crazy bitch", now.

It's a sentence that ONLY A GREAT WOMAN CAN SAY!

She becames it right here...

[TytusTolshemLives]

@Mizukage6 Please. Atia was far too short-sighted to have been an effective conqueror or ruler, she would have just become another Marc Antony.

[7zarem]

Two days later, Atia of the Julii was found dead by poison.

[Sapphonouveau]

Oh this makes me wish they'd continued the show into Octavian's reign just to see livia and atia go head to head more often!

[Mistermax30]

@powerdriller10 I agree. And don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Hurt's work in general. I did find some enjoyable elements in his Caligula performance, but at the end of the day, I saw it as being stereotypical...

[powerdriller10]

@Mistermax30

Ok, I agree with you that historical Caligula might have been quite different from the most common theatrical representations of him. But, Hurts interpretation in "Claudius", as an artistic work, was still very good. Even if it follows prejudiced script.

[Mistermax30]

@powerdriller10 Not at all, I've known quite a few people who, after seeing "I Claudius" had the precise same estimation. He portrayed Caligula as the stereotypical sissy faced psychopathic nancy boy. The historical Caligula was quite different...

[powerdriller10]

There are two figures of Roman History that could make great dramas, but: Hollywood, BBC, HBO an the others; have never noticed them.They are Lucius Catilina and Clodia. Both of the same era, the one of adult youth of Julius Caesar and Cicero.Catilina a gangster but an aristocrat, a populist who despised the people, a hedonist that easily switched to stoic.Also, an early prototype of Julius Caesar lacking the genius,while surfeiting in self-indulgence. Clodia requires a full post for her alone.

[powerdriller10]

@seb2455

Historically, Livia is a figure of great stature, while Atia was relatively unknown. It took too much literary license in this series to fudge up Atia´s character and make her more interesting, powerful and beautiful than Cleopatra and Livia together. A generation of young viewers are gonna be misled by this HBO Rome Series, their knowledge of Rome´s History of that era is gonna be way off. The same or even worse in the Series "The Tudors", History was butchered.