Antony And Cleopatra (2010)
“There would anyway have been no reason for the king to seek out the twenty-four-year-old. Instead, he needed to win over enough influential senators to make the Romans commit to restoring him to his throne. He went first to Pompey, both because of their past connection and because of his obvious importance. A Roman senator’s prestige was reflected by the level of the people who came as clients to seek his favour. It bolstered Pompey’s reputation to have kings coming to him for help and he granted Auletes the hospitality of his own villa in the Alban Hills near Rome.1 The city was bigger than his own capital of Alexandria, bigger indeed than any city in the known world, but a good deal less impressive. Alexandria had been planned and was from the beginning built on a monumental scale. Rome developed more gradually over the centuries and was only now beginning to acquire the grand buildings we associate with it. Pompey had already commissioned a massive theatre complex, almost none of w...hich is now visible, but was originally grander than anything else in Rome.MoreLess
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