TV: Winning over the Britons

Brittania's script is very modern, almost suburban, with none of the curious faux-Latin English syntax of the Spartacus series

David Morrissey as Aulus Plautius in Britannia (Sky Atlantic)

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Britannia: Sky Atlantic

Coronation: BBC One

‘His rebus gestis . . . these things having been accomplished” is a phrase buried in the minds of those who did Latin in school (a dying breed) and sweated over De Bello Gallico, Julius Caesar’s brisk account of his wars with the tribes of Gaul and his two invasions of Britain in 55 and 54BC. The phrase opens many chapters of the self-serving ...