How Titus Pullo Brought Down The Republicrome :... -

Later, while Pullo is part of an escort for Mark Antony (then a Tribune of the Plebs), a friend of the murdered gambler lunges from a crowd to attack Pullo.

While the fall of the Republic was a complex process driven by Julius Caesar's ambition and Senate opposition, the show depicts Pullo as the "butterfly effect" that makes war inevitable: How Titus Pullo Brought Down the RepublicRome :...

After returning to Rome, Pullo kills a man in a gambling den who was cheating him. Later, while Pullo is part of an escort

Claiming his life is in danger and his sacred rights as a Tribune have been violated, Antony flees Rome to join Caesar. Caesar uses this "attack" on a legal representative of the people as his primary excuse to cross the Rubicon , effectively starting the civil war. Historical Reality vs. Fiction Caesar uses this "attack" on a legal representative