Antony is forced to flee the city and the declaration of Caesar's criminality is passed. However, Antony fails when a mob of Pompey's men defy his orders and attack Antony and his escort of Thirteenth men, including Vorenus and Pullo. Caesar marches back toward Italy, and winters the Thirteenth at Ravenna.Ĭaesar sends Mark Antony ahead to Rome in order to take up the office of Tribune of the Plebs with orders to ensure that Caesar will be able to be spared a criminal trial in Rome by his enemies. However, Vorenus and Pullo, as well as Caesar's great-nephew Octavian, return with his eagle and reveal Pompey's involvement in the eagle's theft. Not expecting that they will succeed, Caesar in fact hopes that the eagle will remain lost, tricking Pompey into believing that Caesar is weak and underestimating him. Caesar tasks Mark Antony, who in turn tasks Lucius Vorenus, with finding the eagle. Immediately after Alesia, the eagle standard of Legio XIII Gemina, one of Caesar's legions and the legion of Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, is stolen. This is to no avail, however, as Pompey marries Cornelia, the daughter of Caesar's outspoken critic Scipio. On the same day, however, he receives news of his daughter Julia's death, and attempts to marry another of the women in his family to Pompey, Julia's widower, in order to maintain their alliance. Anxious not to appear as a tyrant or a king, Caesar is nonetheless not above using dark methods to further his ends, arranging the assassinations of certain critics of his as well as rigging elections to ensure a favorable outcome for himself.Īt the beginning of Season One, Caesar has just won an eight-year war of conquest in Gaul, and accepts the surrender of Vercingetorix, the Gallic leader, after the battle of Alesia. He attempts to make life fairer for the plebeians of Rome, though this angers the patrician elite and is ultimately his downfall. He is a forgiving man, readily granting amnesty to everyone of Pompey's faction who deserts to his cause or surrenders to him after Pompey's defeat. He usually maintains a calm demeanor, though has been known to enter into rages when pushed too far. Caesar is a man of both military and political talent, charismatic and shrewd, calculating and deliberate.
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