You're A Married, Roman Citizen Serving The Legion Hundreds Of Miles From Home

[Guest]

I was thinking about HBO's "Rome."

Vorenus has been off fighting in Gaul for seven years. His wife and young children are not camp followers: they live in Rome.

How would his wife have supported the family? As First File Centurion, Vorenus would have made a very good wage. Would the Republic have provided some of that to his wife in the form of a pension? Given Rome's non-existent postal address system, how would such a pension have been delivered?

Living in the city, it's not like she had crops to sell.

Was it common for soldiers to have families at home?

[Heidi]

Wow, that's really random!

[tehck_1013]

Uhm. What???
:confused:

[Annalee]

Wow, that's really random!

About as random as that person describing their labor and delivery the other day. :confused::confused:

[midaycare]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Rome

I can't believe I googled this on a Friday night.

There is a section in there about how women are always subject to their fathers, and when married, they become subject to their husbands' father. Maybe that is your answer.

[SignMeUp]

Obvious. She'd have started an FCC ::

[Michael]

A troll from Singapore.

[midaycare]

What exactly is the point of trolling? Hang out online with people you don't know, talking about subjects you probably don't care about, and coming up with silly questions.

That is way too much effort.

[nannyde]

A troll from Singapore.

We should write a haiku beginning with

"A troll from Singapore"

[Heidi]

We should write a haiku beginning with

"A troll from Singapore"

More like a limerick?


There was a troll from Singapore
Who scanned the internet, nothing more
Eating Doritos and drinking tea
surfing about aimlessly

She'd find a site here or there,
sitting at home in her underwear
Post strange things or pick a fight
To get a false sense of might

By people wondering who she was
and why someone would "just because"
Go to Daycare.com, post random threads
and try to mess with people's heads

I'm taking a creative writing class this fall. Maybe I should save this one, eh? Do you think the instructor would know I spend a whole 3 minutes on it? Ok...5 minutes...edit

[Blackcat31]

More like a limerick?


There was a troll from Singapore
Who scanned the internet, nothing more
Eating Doritos and drinking tea
surfing about aimlessly

She'd find a site here or there,
sitting at home in her underwear
Post strange things or pick a fight
To get a false sense of might

By people wondering who she was
and why someone would "just because"
Go to Daycare.com, post random threads
and try to mess with people's heads

:: ::

[nannyde]

More like a limerick?


There was a troll from Singapore
Who scanned the internet, nothing more
Eating Doritos and drinking tea
surfing about aimlessly

She'd find a site here or there,
sitting at home in her underwear
Post strange things or pick a fight
To get a false sense of might

By people wondering who she was
and why someone would "just because"
Go to Daycare.com, post random threads
and try to mess with people's heads

I'm taking a creative writing class this fall. Maybe I should save this one, eh? Do you think the instructor would know I spend a whole 3 minutes on it? Ok...5 minutes...edit

happyfacehappyface::

Nice

[AmyKidsCo]

A troll from Singapore.

Regardless, I liked "Rome" for the most part...