Roman Mysteries - Season 1 (2007)

Flavia and her friends arrive in a refugee camp in the wake of the devastation at Pompeii, where they quickly discover a nefarious plot to kidnap orphaned children from among the refugees.

Jonathan's uncle Simeon comes to tell Jonathan that his mother, Susannah, was not killed at the siege of Jerusalem but is living in Rome as a slave to the emperor Titus. The two travel to Rome but are captured and Simeon is recognized as a former zealot who fought the Romans. He and Jonathan are placed in the Golden House, the quarter for Jewish slaves but, using one of the building's many secret passages, Jonathan gets to see his mother. Flavia and her party arrive in Rome to try and free Jonathan and thwart an assassination attempt. As a result Titus frees the ...

Jonathan is tricked into going to Rome with his uncle, Simian, and becomes entangled in a plot to assassinate Emperor Titus (Nicholas Farrell, "The Iron Lady").

Flavia's father has been ruined by the eruption of Vesuvius and, as the bankers come to repossess the villa, she and her friends go to Laurentum to stay with Pliny's young nephew, also called Pliny. He tells them that there is supposed to be a fabulous treasure buried just off the coast and Lupus becomes obsessed with diving to find it, especially as he sees the dolphins as good omen. However he almost dies after an octopus attack and is revived by Jonathan. Venalicius, the pirate leader, is also after the treasure and Lupus reveals that the man is his uncle, who ...

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Jonathan is upset that his father Mordecai is to marry his girlfriend Miriam and still holds out hope of reconciling him with Susannah. When plague sweeps through Rome Mordecai, as a doctor, is summoned to help, taking the children with him. Titus has had a prophetic dream in which a Prometheus will open Pandora's box and destroy Rome. Flavia believes this refers to Berenice, Titus's former partner, now confined to her quarters, in which a box taken to be the Ark of the Covenant is found. Jonathan is persuaded by Agathus, a slave with a grudge, to kill Titus but ...

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