BBC Timewatch – Murder in Rome (2005)
English | Size: 788 MB
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This is a dramatized documentary of a famous Roman murder trial which established the law career of Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Rome in 81BC was under the dictatorship of Sulla after a civil war. Sulla proscribed perceived enemies of the state. Up to 9000 people, mainly nobles, were executed without trial as part of the proscriptions and had their property seized. It was in this environment of fear and extra-judicial killings that the trial takes place. [Read more…]