Rome, season 1 episode 12, Caesar admits Lucius Vorenus, a pleb, to the senate and plans to admit 100 Celts and Gauls, noble leaders of tribes settled in Italy.
He says he wants a senate composed of the best men in Italy and not just the richest men in the city of Rome.
It is true he expanded the senate.
But in that way, and with that intention?
He has said repeatedly in this series he plans to give up power once he has finished reforming the republic and making it secure and stable.
The show portrays the conspiracy to kill him as based on personal hatred of Caesar by Brutus' mother, Servillia, opposition to his constitutional reforms by a city oligarchy jealous of its power, and loathing by the same plutocrats of his economic reforms that much favored the plebs, the poor of Rome, and the common soldiers.
It represents Brutus as pushed into participation by his mother and by his friendship with the far more committed Cassius, as well as others of the group.
He is show almost unwilling to strike a blow when Caesar is slaughtered at the foot of Pompey's statue, and then fallen to the floor by the realization of the enormity of what they have all done.
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