Paolo wrote: Tue Jul 02, 2024 10:05 am
Also, an update to the "who's who" of the story.
‘THE TRAITOR’S SON’:–
NAMED ‘DRAMATIS PERSONAE’ IN ORDER OF REFERENCE SO FAR (Chapters I to LXIII):
Name & Role
Lucius Aelius Sejanus - Prefect of the Praetorian Guard - ‘The Traitor’ – executed prior to the start of the story.
Crastus - Emperor Tiberius’ freelance executioner.
Tiberius - Roman Emperor.
Strabo - oldest son of Sejanus – executed prior to the start of the story.
Capito - middle son of Sejanus – executed prior to the start of the story.
Aelia Iunilla - daughter of Sejanus – executed prior to the start of the story.
Apicata - wife of Sejanus – committed suicide prior to the start of the story.
Marius - youngest son of Sejanus – ‘The Traitor’s Son’ – 1st slave name: ‘Mariullus’.
Titus Caesonius Priscus - Tiberius’ official ‘Comptroller of Pleasures’.
Echion - cruel & dishonest freedman steward of Sejanus’ confiscated countryside estate.
Pannychis - slave-girl, originally on Sejanus’ confiscated countryside estate.
Varro - Crastus’ 2nd-in-command.
Pulchellus - originally Echion’s slaveboy catamite, & now Crastus’.
Selia - freed-woman on Sejanus’ confiscated countryside estate.
Grynium - one of Crastus’ men.
Daedalus - slave cook on Sejanus’ confiscated countryside estate,
Lucillus - another of Crastus’ men.
Polybus - Greek merchant based in Piraeus, the port of Athens,
Balbinus - merchant in Rome’s ‘Great Emporium’, trader in stolen goods & pretty slaveboys,
Scyrax - high-class merchant of exceptionally beautiful & well-trained slaveboys.
Dictys - one of Scyrax’s household slaveboys.
Felix - Scyrax’s cruel & sadistic eunuch secretary.
Sulis, Lysias, Nisus & Giton – slaveboys, originally being trained in readiness for auction by Scyrax.
Alseus - Scyrax’s physically big & strong black eunuch, expert at whipping slaveboys.
Maccius - pretty but extremely sadistic patrician youth with whom Scyrax is infatuated.
Lucius Vinius - Vigiles centurion.
Gaius - Vigiles deputy to Lucius Vinius dealing with administration.
Lucius Vinius Major - father of Lucius Vinius & owner of a vineyard on the shore of Lake Albano,
Lucius Vinius Minor - son of Lucius Vinius & grandson of Lucius Vinius Major.
Pueros... Glad to see you back as you have been one of the authors I've really liked, especially since your stories are much more about the background and life of the characters than the usual 'wank & run' stories that only deal with that very short interval in the life of our hero's....