I am – Hercules!!

There’s apparently some big sporting contest on CBS tonight, so “Battlestar Galactica,” “Desperate Housewives” and a lot of other Sunday shows are taking the night off.

Not so “Rome,” which comes roaring back with a moving four-star episode that sends Titus Pullo to Lucius Vorenus with news that the latter’s offspring still live.

Along the way Pullo runs into both Octavian (now played by Simon Woods) and Antony, former allies whose warring armies are busy hacking away at each other for control of the titular city-state.

Tonight’s stirring ending remains still vivid in the memory, even now, more than a month after I originally saw it.

9 p.m. Sunday. HBO.

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