dates and anticipations of the first episodes

New cities, new peoples, new kings. The new season of the Matteo Rovere event series debuts on Sky Romulus II – War for Rome. The time has finally come for fans of the series: new episodes will arrive tomorrow on Sky Atlantic: here’s what to expect.

The birth of Rome as it has never been told in eight new episodes – shot like the previous ones entirely in protolatin. Romulus II – War for Rome will see the return of season one protagonists Andrea Arcangeli (Yemos), Marianna Fontana (Ilia) and Francesco Di Napoli (Wiros). To them, in the new episodes, are added: Valentina Bellè (I wanted to be a rock star, The man in the labyrinth, Catch-22) in the role of Ersilia, leader of the Sabine priestesses; Emanuele Maria Di Stefano (The Catholic School, Drought) who embodies the king of the Sabines Tito Tazio, son of the god Sancos, Rome’s most powerful enemy.

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The series will also involve Max Malatesta (Favolacce, Il primo Re) is Sabos, advisor and right-hand man to the King of the Sabines; Ludovica Nasti (The Shining Friend) stars as Vibia, the youngest of the Sabine priestesses; while Giancarlo Commare (Skam Italia, masculine singular, La Belva) is Atys, the young king of Satricum. Vanessa Scalera (Silvia), Sergio Romano (Amulius) and Demetra Avincola (Deftri) are also back.

Romulus II – the war for Rome: what to expect from the first two episodes

Produced by Sky Studios, Cattleya and Groenlandia, the series will debut tomorrow exclusively on Sky and streaming only on NOW. Premiered during the seventeenth edition of the Rome Film Fest, Romulus II – War for Rome, the second chapter of the Sky Original series by Matteo Rovere, will be broadcast every Friday on Sky Atlantic. The show will of course also be available on demand.

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In the first two of the new episodes, shot respectively by Matteo Rovere and Enrico Maria Artale, Yemos and Wiros, sons of the Lupa and brothers by choice and destiny, found Rome with Ilia, Deftri, all the Ruminales people and a large number of Latins in search of a new beginning and a new homeland. Both are proclaimed king of the city which stands in the place of ancient Velia. Rome is a city founded not on blood and revenge, but on justice and peace, a promise of brotherhood and social redemption for all. In all the territories, we only talk about their actions, so much so that the rumor reaches the cruel king of priests, Tito Tazio, who invites the two brothers to the country of the Sabines. The invitation turns out to be an ambush that leads to the kidnapping of the Sabine priestesses.

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Wiros welcomes the four kings of the bordering peoples to ask for their support against Tito Tazio, but the meeting does not go as hoped. The latter, camped with his soldiers on the borders of Alba, in exchange for peace, asks to recover his priestesses, taken prisoner by Yemos and Wiros during the ambush, but without success. Although Silvia begs the Sabines not to attack her son, Tito’s advance does not stop.