Posca
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| Rome character | |
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| Posca | |
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| Name | Posca |
| Class | Slave |
| Family | None Known |
| Allies | Caesar |
| Enemies | None |
| Appearances | 1-1 "The Stolen Eagle" 1-2 "How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic" 1-4 "Stealing from Saturn" 1-5 "The Ram Has Touched the Wall" 1-6 "Egeria" 1-7 "Pharsalus" 1-8 "Caesarion" 1-10 "Triumph" 1-11 "The Spoils" 1-12 "Kalends of February" |
| Portrayed by | Nicholas Woodeson |
Posca is a fictional character in the HBO/BBC2 original television series Rome, played by Nicholas Woodeson. He is the slave of Julius Caesar, yet is also his friend, aide-de-camp, and confidante in most things personal and professional. As a slave, he will seldom receive credit, but it appears that many of the more simple and elegant solutions to Caesar's problems come from the mind of Posca.
Personality
Posca is depicted as a practical, cynical man, with a dry sense of humor and a penchant for witty and memorable quips. He is as "pragmatically amoral" as his master and seems to share an unusually close relationship with him. Posca's unusually familiar, and often sarcastic and sardonic, interraction with many of the principle characters seems to indicate that he enjoys a status higher than that of the average slave. Given his frequent access to large amounts of unaccounted money, it can be assumed that Posca could, in fact, buy his freedom at any time, but chooses to remain Caesar's slave for reasons not yet made clear in the series. This could be an indication of loyalty or, more simply, perhaps, a way of maintaining a status and lifestyle not available to him as a free man.Character history
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