Illustrations; Contributors; Episode Guide; Introduction: The Trials and Triumphs of Rome Season Two, Monica S. Cyrino; Part I Power and Politics; 1. A Touch Too Cerebral: Eulogizing Caesar in Rome, Angeline C. Chiu; 2. Discharging Pullo and Vorenus: Veterans in Rome, Lee L. Brice; 3. Gangsterism in Rome, Arthur J. Pomeroy; 4.

Class, Chaos, and Control in Rome, Margaret M. Toscano; 5. Earning Immortality: Cicero's Death Scene in Rome, Eran Almagor; 6. The Triumvirate of the Ring in Rome, Barbara Weiden Boyd; 7. Jews and Judaism in Rome, Lisa Maurice; Part II Sex and Status; 8. Revenge and Rivalry in Rome, Stacie Raucci; 9. Effigies of Atia and Servilia: Effacing the Female Body in Rome, Antony Augoustakis; 10. Livia, Sadomasochism, and the Anti-Augustan Tradition in Rome, Anna McCullough; 11.

Windows and Mirrors: Illuminating the Invisible Women of Rome, Kirsten Day; 12. Antony and Atia: Tragic Romance in Rome, Juliette Harrisson; 13. Problematic Masculinity: Antony and the Political Sphere in Rome, Rachael Kelly; 14. Rome, Shakespeare, and the Dynamics of the Cleopatra Reception, Gregory N. Daugherty; 15. The Rattle of the Sistrum: "Othering" Cleopatra and Egypt in Rome, John J. Johnston; 16. Gateways to Vice: Drugs and Sex in Rome, Alex McAuley; 17.

Slashing Rome: Season Two Rewritten in Online Fanfiction, Amanda Potter; Filmography; Bibliography; Index.