At the heart of the Dominus saga is the importance of family: spouses, children, ancestors, friends, freedmen, and slaves.
Here’s a nice summary description of the Roman family.
http://www.ancient.eu/article/870/
JPK
Author. Historian. Romantic.
At the heart of the Dominus saga is the importance of family: spouses, children, ancestors, friends, freedmen, and slaves.
Here’s a nice summary description of the Roman family.
http://www.ancient.eu/article/870/
JPK
well. I’m glad I don’t live in the Roman times then. But like the article says, at least women were treated better than Greek women. And I am genuinely surprised that Roman women could even be doctors. That’s taken modern society a shamefully long time to rectify! It seems that being anything other than the elder son/ father of the family kind of sucks. You might as well be a slave if you’re not going to have a say, opinion or right to basically any thing. Well I suppose a slave isn’t even a citizen. But I mean it would almost be preferable to be a slave like Simon (who is massively loved by his dominus) than the third daughter or something equally unimportant. Not that slavery is a good thing…but then nor is patriarchy.
Definitely not the best time to be alive, esp. for women. That said, I’m sure a lot of power was wielded ‘behind the scenes’ by some influential women (like Memmia and Plotina). But absolutely the best position to be was the top dude/elder son. I’m fascinated and horrified by the whole treatment of infants. The ‘acceptance ceremony’ of a newborn by his/her father is incredible, as well as all the superstitions surrounding birth. Of course, we’ll have to see what Gaius does when/if the babies arrive.
And yes —a thousand times yes! It was significantly better to be a cherished slave than a free born poor person in ancient Rome. Simon is very lucky in many ways, as are all the lads.
ha! I don’t think Alle agrees :p Or at least he’s in denial! How is the third story going? This is the flashback to Luc and Gaius’ time in Greece, right?
No, Alle will never believe that being Gaius’s slave is good thing. He just has to get Gaius to realize that. 😉
OH! The third book is almost completely outlined. It’s not the prequel though (that will be book 4) – Book 3 picks up where 2 left off and it’s the BIG one – Alle’s plot for revenge, babies, Gaius flips out, then the gang goes to Dacia. More Dacian characters show up, so more of Alle’s world is revealed. I think (hope) this will be the best one yet. So much insanity happens. \o/
duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude. YESS. you have just left me so many yummy teasers *cruel* Gaius flips out? At whom? Or what, rather? I hope he won’t take it out on Bryaxis -_- and I assume we get to know more about our modern day historian and his hot lover? and the skeletons??
also they go to Dacia? say what now?
It’s going to be loads of crazy fun. It’s the “fall hopelessly in love with Gaius” book. And yes — more murder clues and Charlie/Yves. They’ll get their own book after we wrap up these Roman boys’ epic. They have quite a story to tell. 😀
I currently have a reluctant admiration for Gaius at the moment..haha.
Oh really now? So Yves isn’t just a fling :p
and am I being really obtuse? What murder clues? Ohhhhh THE murder – right right sorry I thought you were still talking about the skeletons that Charlie and Stefano dug up….but you’re talking about rome heh
We’ll see about Yves. Lately, he’s been telling me his backstory. I think he wants to stick around, but Charlie’s a bit of a mess. Lol!