The Cult of Order

Tv Series
Tv Show :
Rome: Power & Glory
Season 1
Episode Number :5
Rate : Not Rated
RunTime :Unknown
Air Date :1998-03-11
Story : Rome fashioned a cultural template that resonates today in Western art, architecture, medicine and urban planning. As the Roman Empire grew, this pagan model blended with a host of beliefs reflecting the multi-cultural world it encompassed. From this mix emerged Christianity, by its very nature at odds with the deeply rooted values of Roman Culture. Romans thought they had united the world. But after centuries of conquest and glory, resentment festered within. Repression and chaos replaced tolerance and order; and the gap between the wealthy and the poor had become unimaginably wide. Indeed ninety-five percent of the population struggled beneath the poverty line. Cults of dissent emerged that threatened to divide the empire forever. "Cult of Order" aims to track the corruption of the values that made Rome 'great'; as excellence gave way to excess.
Cast
Richard BrilliantSelf - Columbia University
Shelley HaleySelf - Hamilton College
Keith HopkinsSelf - King's College Cambridge
Carl J. RichardSelf - Southwestern Louisiana University