7.3/1018 votes#1 - Part 1: City of Blood
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/24/2014
Actor Larry Lamb explores the 3,000-year-old story of the rise of the Roman Empire and how it shaped the way we live today, uncovering the intrigue, conflict, greed and violence that surrounded not only Rome, but Pompeii, Sicily, France and Tunisia as the Romans set out to conquer the world. With the help of historians and CGI representations, Larry begins his journey by focusing on the Italian capital of Rome. He takes a look at the role of legendary characters including the city's mythical Iron Age founders Romulus and Remus, and learns how thousands of labourers turned mud huts into a city of stone.
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7.4/1018 votes#2 - Part 2: Total War
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/31/2014
Larry Lamb reveals how the Roman Empire became the dominant power in the Mediterranean. Beginning his quest at the Roma Termini train station in central Rome, he learns how the city was attacked by the Gauls in the Battle of the Allia, fought roughly 400 years BC. This three-year conflict inflicted great losses and damage, and left the Romans believing that attack was the best form of defence.
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7.4/1017 votes#3 - Part 3: Death of a Hero
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/7/2014
During the mid-second century BC, Rome was enjoying the spoils after defeating Carthage in the Third Punic War, with slaves, treasure and art pouring into the republic. Larry Lamb examines how not everyone was reaping the benefit and reveals that resentment was mounting as the gap widened between the poor and the privileged. The actor traces the journey of Tiberius Gracchus, a man from the elite ruling classes who eventually came to champion the cause of the common citizen farmer, and learns about the development of the hypocaust, Rome's famous central-heating system.
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7.4/1017 votes#4 - Part 4: Caesar
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/14/2014
Larry Lamb concludes his exploration of the Roman Empire by looking at the life and career of Julius Caesar. The actor traces the story of the great man's extraordinary transformation from a bankrupt junior public official to the seemingly invincible general who conquered Gaul, through to his infamous assassination in a debating chamber. Along the way, Larry discovers that money was often at the heart of the decisions Caesar made.
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The history of Rome is a 1,000-year-long epic, filled with murder, ambition, betrayal and greed and encompassing such legendary characters as Rome’s Iron Age founders...
Genre:Documentary
Network:Channel 5
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Part 1: City of Blood" is the best rated episode of "Rome: The World's First Superpower" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/24/2014. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Part 2: Total War".