Lhe series on the origins of Rome by Matteo Rovere – from today on Sky and streaming on NOW – becomes more exciting in this second season. In Romulus 2 – The war for Rome finally we will know who will become the first king of the future eternal city. Who will be Romulus? The descendant of the king of Alba Yemos or the former slave, who became a friend and brother of Yemos, Wiros?
The two will face a powerful and ruthless enemy Tito Tazio, king of the Sabines and son of the God Sancos. We will also find out how the famous happened Rape of the Sabine Women (at least that’s the vision of the creators of the series). There tension between the characters grows and a spectacular battle is upon us Rumathis is the name of the city consecrated to the goddess of wolves.
Romulus 2: the previews of the first episode
753 a. C. Ruma is the new city founded by the two Latin kings, Yemos (Andrea Arcangeli) and Wiros (Francesco Di Napoli), and the place where slaves can be free: Wiros is an example, as a former slave he now rules the city together with his friend. The same law does not apply a Curessacred city of the Sabine people, where the terrible reigns Tito Tazio (Emanuele Maria Di Stefano), the amazing novelty of this second season. To him and the Sabine priestesses, headed by Ersilia (Valentina Bellè, another new entry together with Ludovica Nastias the youngest priestess), the god Sancos speaks.
The first episode opens with an invitation to the alliance between the two peoples by Titus. Victims must be sacrificed for kings to drink their blood. Yemos and Wiros and Ilia (Marianna Fontana), who returns again this season after becoming a warrior of the Latins, find themselves displaced and to get out of the unexpected ambush of the Sabineskidnap the priestesses.
The second episode
Tito doesn’t wait a second and just wishes i his pigs drink the blood of the two kings. The Sabines declare war on Ruma. Silvia (Vanessa Scalera), mother of Yemos, tries to deal with Tito and his advisor Sabos (Max Malatesta). The Sabines conquer Alba on whose throne sits a shadow from the past. Neighboring peoples do not support Ruma. Wiros and Yemos remain alone with the priestesses who prophesy: of King will remain one, the false will die, the true will live. In this second season of Romulus a bloody war against a foreign enemy which generates a crisis among the founders of Rome. We will see the design of a new order.
The Sabine priestesses. (Sky)
The characters of Romulus 2
Yemos (Andrea Arcangeli)
At the beginning of the second season Yemos is stronger than everhas beside him Wiroshis brother in law, with whom he founds Rome, starting the new course of history. Beside her there is also Ilia (Marianna Fontana) that becomes the woman with whom he will share love and the bloodiest battle that awaits them. The certainties of Yemos they will collapse in this archaic world made of violence and oppressionwhere gods and men rarely show mercy.
Wiros (Francesco Di Napoli)
Wiros is different from the first seasonif we have known him as a slave fearful and vexedin these new episodes we will find him co-founder of Rome and more authoritative. He’ll think about helping him Ersiliawhich will show him how a king can be infallible, equal to the gods, and that one cannot escape one’s destiny. He is one of the characters who will grow episode after episode and who will surprise the audience.
Francesco Di Napoli, Andrea Arcangeli and Emanuele Maria Di Stefano. (Sky)
Ilia (Marianna Fontana)
It removed the grief and pain, inside she has nothing left and she has no more tears. “I am made of iron, like swords, ”he says. Ilia seems to feel no more emotions, she will be Yemos to open her heart. Only he will be able to give her the incentive to try to rebuild a life after the tragedies experienced in the first season. The warrior who trains the Roman soldiers tries to stave off the pain, but she is not the right solution: i ghosts of his past in fact come alive in the mind and in reality.
Tito Tazio (Emanuele Maria Di Stefano)
The young king of the Sabines, son of the god Sancos, is mysterious and ruthless, eccentric and perverse. He has no father or mother, and this aspect unites him to Wiros. His only points of reference are the priestesses, who are stolen from him, and the faithful Sabos. During the episodes we will see the great transformation of him: he will have to learn to be a man and a king, as well as an unconditionally worshiped god. Finally he will take control of himself and make decisions without anyone’s mediation.
Emanuele Maria Di Stefano. (Sky)
Ersilia (Valentina Bellè)
It is another new entry of the second season of Romulus. Strong priestess, loyal to Titus, willing to do whatever the god Sancos and his ruler ask him. Kidnapped and taken to Rome she finds her voice and her independence, a force that she did not believe she had and that will open the door to a new world to which she thought she could not belong.
The Priestesses Sabine (Ludovica Nasti, Maria Rosaria Mingione, Gaia Altucci, Bianca Panconi)
Masked priestessesa gynoecium enlarged around Titus, women with whom the king has morbid relations of a divine and carnal nature. They read Sancos’ willsI am the king’s guide, which hangs on their lips. In the beginning they are a single voicealmost a single body, but after their abduction we will see them without a mask and we will learn about their differences.
Silvia (Vanessa Scalera)
Yemos’s mother embodies the values of a world that turns to the endthat of his father Numitor and the defunct League of Thirty. Silvia is also a mother who tries with all her might to protect her son, her only bond that she has remained with her, without however realizing that she cannot protect him from herself. Her life will put a strain on her and when she has lost almost everything she will find within herself the strength to change things. The other killed son always finds space in her thoughts, Enitoshis favorite.
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