Same here with the Romans. It's odd, for most people it seems to be the Greeks or at any rate the Macedon prodigy and his sidekick, but for me, it always was the Romans.

Sidenote: they're currently showing Rome on German tv, several months after you reviewed it, and I find myself saying stuff like "but where is Fulvia, because when Octavian later has his propagandists say that Antony got trained to letting a woman rule him by Fulvia, he can't exactly replace F. with with own mother, can he?" Whereas I saw recently one of those old Italian sandal movies from the 50s which got Miltiades and Themistocles confused and just smiled benignenly...