Minor characters of Rome

This page is about characters from the television series Rome

Listed in alphabetical order by character's first/only name

Calpurnia (Calpurnia Pisonis), played by Haydn Gwynne. Seen in Stealing from Saturn, The Ram Has Touched the Wall, and Kalends of February. In Shakespeare's and Plutarch's version, it is her dreams that almost stop Caesar on the Ides of March, cleverly alluded to by the flock of CGI birds in the shape of a face in Kalends of February.

Cleopatra (Cleopatra VII Philopator), played by Lyndsey Marshal. Seen in Caesarion, and probably to be seen in series 2 in relation to Mark Anthony (in fact, historically she should have come to Rome with Caesar and then fled back to Egypt after his assassination).

Eirene, Greek for peace (a Roman would arbitrarily give a slave an name appropriate to their perceived qualities - Onesimus, Latin for useful, is another. Though whether Titus Pullo, Roman squaddie, would have known enough Greek to give her this name is perhaps a blooper!), played by Chiara Mastalli. One time slave of Titus Pullo, freed by him so that he could marry her, not knowing she was betrothed to another slave. Discovering this, and in a jealous impulse, Pullo killed his rival. Eirene hated Pullo for this, even seriously comtemplating murdering a convalescing Pullo in his bed. It seems that time, and repentance on the part of Pullo has quenched her anger, and it remains to see what else is possble. Seen in An Owl in a Thornbush, The Ram Has Touched the Wall, Egeria, Utica, Triumph, and Kalends of February.

Evander Pulchio, Greek name (to fit with Greek name of his sister-in-law and lover Niobe and wife Lyde), played by Enzo Cilenti. The now deceased husband of Lyde, brother-in-law of Niobe, and secretly father of her son Lucius. Seen in An Owl in a Thornbush, Stealing from Saturn and The Ram Has Touched the Wall.

Glabius, Latin name, played by Robert Purvis. The now deceased ex-husband of Octavia of the Julii. Seen in The Stolen Eagle, How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic , An Owl in a Thornbush, and Stealing from Saturn.

Lucius, played by Marco Pollack and others. Son of Niobe and Evander Pulchio - a fact that was hidden from Lucius Vorenus until the Kalends of February. Until then, Vorenus was lead to believe the boy was his grandson by his eldest daughter Vorena the Elder. Appears in How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic, An Owl in a Thornbush, Stealing from Saturn, The Ram Has Touched the Wall, Egeria, Utica, and Kalends of February.

Lyde, Greek name, to fit with Greek name of her sister Niobe and husband Evander, played by Esther Hall. Sister of Niobe, widow of Evander Pulchio, and business partner with the Vorenus family in a very profitable joint-venture butcher shop. Seen in An Owl in a Thornbush, Stealing from Saturn, The Ram Has Touched the Wall, Egeria, Pharsalus and Utica.

Newsreader/Senate Crier, played by Ian McNeice. The closest Rome comes to a narrator, he reads the pronouncements of the Senate, public service announcements, and the current events of the Republic to the people in the Forum. Loudly. With ancient Roman commercials. A more-or-less attested role in Ancient Greek and Roman society, as there was never any public gallery in the building where the government met and much of the population were illiterate. The Latin word is praeco, and in many old translations is translated as herald. Seen in The Stolen Eagle, How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic, Pharsalus, Caesarion, Utica, The Spoils, and Kalends of February.

Scipio (Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Cornelianus Scipio Nasica), played by Paul Jesson. Seen in The Stolen Eagle, How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic, An Owl in a Thornbush', Stealing from Saturn, The Ram Has Touched the Wall, Pharsalus, and Utica.

Pothinus, played by Tony Guilfoyle, see also Caesar's Alexandrian War, Seen in Caesarion.

Ptolemy XIII (Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator), see also Caesar's Alexandrian War, played by Shaka Bunsie. Seen in Caesarion.

Vercingetorix, see also Caesar's Gallic Wars, played by Giovanni Calcagno. Seen in The Stolen Eagle, and Triumph.

Vorena the Elder, played by Coral Amiga. She is the daughter of Lucius Vorenus and Niobe. Voren-us is the masculine and any wife or daughter would take the feminine form of it ie Voren-a. Seen in How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic, An Owl in a Thornbush, Stealing from Saturn, The Ram Has Touched the Wall, Egeria, Utica, Triumph, and Kalends of February.

Vorena the Younger, played by Anna Fausta Primiano. She is the daughter of Lucius Vorenus and Niobe. Seen in How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic, An Owl in a Thornbush, Stealing from Saturn, The Ram Has Touched the Wall, Egeria, Utica, and Triumph.

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