by Aldus Marius on Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:30 am
Ave, Tergeste!
Definitely the everyday type; well...everyday military, or how would they have gotten themselves in their respective fixes? [wink]
Two regular Legionaries and a Military Tribune...how's that for ordinary? The Legionaries may be recognizeable to those of you who were ever on my [RomanOutpost] List at Yahoo: one (based on my RenFaire persona) stepped through a fairy circle in Britain and wound up several centuries ahead of himself; one still sleeps very near Rome itself, a victim of his family name (see my entry on the Fulvii in the CollHist), and maintained by an Egyptian potion. The Brit, no slouch, has taken up with a local reenactor group; his Commander thinks he's just another hobbyist, one with some strange ideas, perhaps, but his kit is passable so he'll do. >({|;-)
I haven't decided where to put the Trib yet; at first he was going to be experiencing the Big Chill, but that's been done (in an intriguing book called The Far Arena by Richard ben Sapir--a so-so science-fiction story, but the Roman bits [about half the book] are wonderful).
That they are all in the Legions is just 'cause it's me doing the writing, and that's what I know. I am Roman and I am (ex-)military, and this has been incubating since before my retirement. But other than their army status, they are just-plain-Romans, as befits my training as a historical cultural anthropologist, which just means 'silly person who wants to know what Life Was Like Back Then'. What's more, they're from slightly different eras--they don't know each other, never did. I, otoh, have known them for years; that part of the story will feel like writing the biographies of some close friends.
Is good?
Aldus Marius Peregrinus.