Well, it’s not exactly Sex in the Eternal City, but HBO’s new series, ROME (8 p.m. Sundays on HBO), certainly puts the flesh back into 52 B.C. A co-production between the BBC and America’s homegrown ...

This impressive DVD set for HBO's sumptuously produced epic series brings ancient history vividly to life in all its brutal glory. Beginning in 52 B.C., Rome chronicles the political machinations that ...

Niece of Caesar, mother of Octavia and Octavian. She is snobbish, willful and cunning, sexually voracious and totally amoral. In a culture in which women are formally without any power, Atia is among ...

When Gotham premiered last fall, it was hailed by critics as the season’s “most promising show.” It was a gritty crime procedural meets a superhero origin tale. It also was the brainchild of ...

Niece of Caesar, mother of Octavia and Octavian. She is snobbish, willful and cunning, sexually voracious and totally amoral. In a culture in which women are formally without any power, Atia is among ...

British actress Polly Walker is no stranger to period dramas. Walker is best known for playing Atia of the Julii in HBO’s toga epic “Rome” (2005-2007). Since then, she’s had a steady stream of roles ...