#1 – Imperium
Rome, 70 BCE. Tiro serves Marcus Tullius Cicero, an ambitious advocate without an aristocratic name or private army. Cicero’s decision to prosecute the corrupt former governor Gaius Verres brings him against the most powerful legal establishment in Rome and turns a courtroom case into the foundation…
#2 – Lustrum
Rome, 63 BCE. Cicero has reached the consulship, but the office places him at the centre of a republic divided by debt, ambition and the threat of violence. Catiline’s conspiracy forces him to choose between constitutional restraint and emergency action while Caesar, Crassus, Pompey and their…
#3 – Dictator
Cicero returns from exile to a republic increasingly governed by military power. He attempts to preserve influence as Pompey and Caesar move towards civil war, then must survive Caesar’s victory, dictatorship and assassination while judging when compromise becomes complicity. After the Ides of March, Cicero sees…