Lucius Vorenus (Rome character)

Lucius Vorenus
Rome character
First appearance	"The Stolen Eagle"
Last appearance	"De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)"
Portrayed by	Kevin McKidd
Information
Gender	Male
Occupation	Roman soldier
Title	Plebeian
Family	Lyde (Rome character) (sister-in-law)
Spouse(s)	Niobe (wife)
Children	Vorena the Elder (daughter) Vorena the Younger (daughter) Lucius (adopted son)

Lucius Vorenus is a semi-fictional character in the British-Italian-American historical drama television series Rome, a show about the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. Played by Scottish actor Kevin McKidd in the series, Lucius Vorenus is introduced as a main character in the pilot episode, "The Stolen Eagle". He is depicted as a staunch, traditional, Roman soldier, who struggles to balance his personal beliefs, his duty to his superiors, and the needs of his family and friends.

The basis for this character is the historical Roman soldier of the same name, who is briefly mentioned in Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico. The two fictionalised characters Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo manage to witness and often influence many of the historical events presented in the series.

Aside from the fact that he was born into the plebeian class of Roman society, little is known of the early life of Lucius Vorenus. In the pilot episode, he says that his mother's people raised horses in Mutina, and in the third episode of the first season, when sacrificing at the altar of Venus, he identifies himself as of the tribe of Stellatina. Given this information, it seems likely that his distant forebears were small landowners and that his paternal line came from the tribes in the area of Etruria, thus making him one of the non-urban Cives romani. We infer that his family was not rich, but they seem to have had sufficient means to give Lucius an education. (At one point, we see him trying to explain aspects of Roman Natural philosophy to Titus Pullo in "An Owl in a Thornbush"). We know that Lucius married Niobe when she was "young", by "special dispensation" from the Legion but Lucius does not seem to be much older than she is. Given the age of their elder daughter (Vorena the Elder) when Lucius returns to his family in "How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic", we can infer Lucius and Niobe previously shared some years together as a married couple.

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