Rome

Two soldiers must find the army's golden standard; the Senate worries about Caesar's popularity; Atia is careful to play both sides of an escalating power struggle.

Pompey makes an unusual tactical decision; Atia enlists her mercenary to ensure her family's security; Pullo's unit intercepts a cargo wagon.

Caesar arrives in Alexandria and meets the king; Vorenus and Pullo free Ptolemy's incarcerated sister; Caesar seeks payment from Egypt for past debts.

Mark Antony runs Rome while Caesar pursues Pompey; Pullo takes Octavian to a brothel; Atia tries to mend fences with Servilia.

Mark Antony returns to Rome; Vorenus heads home to his family; Pompey drafts an ultimatum stripping the general of his power.

Vorenus and Pullo are marooned in the Adriatic Sea; Pompey decides to attack Caesar's depleted forces; Atia enlists Octavia to ask a favor of Servilia.

Two Roman soldiers are caught up in the historical events of an era that included the death of a republic and the birth of an empire.

Caesar weighs Pompey's counteroffer; Vorenus must reconsider his career choices; Atia concocts a scheme to come between Caesar and Servilia.

Mark Antony makes plans to leave the city; Vorenus mourns his wife; Vorenus and Pullo learn that Erastes has abducted Vorenus' children.

Cleopatra arrives in Rome; Vorenus is ordered to assume Erastes' captaincy; Octavian infuriates his mother and Mark Antony.

Atia turns the tables on Servilia; Octavian wins a battle; Vorenus learns of his children's fate.

Pullo descends into Rome's netherworld; Vorenus receives rewards for his allegiance.

Brutus and Cassius struggle to raise foreign money for an army; Cicero sends a message to the Senate in which he gives his support to Octavian.

Caesar becomes emperor; Vorenus and Pullo plan their futures.

Caesar returns home; Vorenus and Pullo have a showdown with a local thug; Servilia's plan backfires.

Octavian proclaims a new era in Rome; Vorenus uncovers treachery behind a missing gold shipment.

In the aftermath of battle, Mark Antony returns to Alexandria; Octavian tries to convince Pullo to give up Cleopatra's palace; Vorenus flees with Caesarion.

Servilia drives Atia to distraction; Octavian, Mark Antony and Lepidus agree to divide Rome's territories; Eirene insists that Pullo punish Gaia for insubordination.

Rome is left suffering by the devastation of the grain supply, it triggers fresh hostilities between Octavian and Mark Antony; Octavian sends Atia to Egypt to plead with her ex-lover.

Vorenus returns to the Collegium; two former adversaries patch up their differences.

Vorenus receives orders to execute scores of Rome's elite; Octavia reveals a secret to Atia; two armies clash, with the future of Rome at stake.