Niece of Caesar, mother of Octavia and Octavian. She is snobbish, willful and cunning, sexually voracious and totally amoral. In a culture in which women are formally without any power, Atia is among ...

As Julius Caesar’s conniving niece Atia of the Julii on HBO’s “Rome,” Polly Walker plays a woman who beds powerful men and pimps out her daughter. Walker welcomed the role with open arms. “This is ...