God, I knew nothing about that particular period (hadn't even read the play), so after I discovered I just loved the character of Octavian I went hunting for books about it -- which is what I normally do. John William's award winning novel "Augustus" is really splendid, by the way. His characterisation of Antony I believe might have been the basis for Puresex; he has Antony addressing people by "me cock" and everything. Before the reading I did, I only knew Augustus was the Emperor when JC was crucified (I also hunted down non-fiction books on Pontius Pilate after I saw The Passion of the Christ).
The second season starts production in 2006, and it'll be shown on HBO in 2007 -- why the long wait, I don't know. I'm sad that they'll probably have to replace Max Pirkis because he wouldn't be old enough to portray Octavian as a 19-to-mid-twenties year old, which is presumably the period they're going to cover in s2.
I still haven't seen episodes 7-12. *is sad* They were mailed to me almost a month ago and I think the postal service have lost the damn package.
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Date: 2005-12-30 05:17 am (UTC)The second season starts production in 2006, and it'll be shown on HBO in 2007 -- why the long wait, I don't know. I'm sad that they'll probably have to replace Max Pirkis because he wouldn't be old enough to portray Octavian as a 19-to-mid-twenties year old, which is presumably the period they're going to cover in s2.
I still haven't seen episodes 7-12. *is sad* They were mailed to me almost a month ago and I think the postal service have lost the damn package.