SPQR Blues Chapter 4 part V
Wednesday, 28 November 2007 08:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

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A survey of beds in Pompeii and Herculaneum, excluding what are obviously children's cots, shows that Roman beds tended to be very narrow, even though married couples were expcted to spend the night togetherfor propriety's sake. I suppose one could push two beds together, but I prefer to think that Romans liked to spoon.
About the count: I never posted #3000, so I was able to roll it back by one today.
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Drapery? What drapery?
Date: 2007-11-28 04:32 am (UTC)I love Mus' face as he gazes fondly down at his sleeping "lazy slave". Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
Re: Drapery? What drapery?
Date: 2007-11-28 04:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-28 04:34 am (UTC)--Kris
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Date: 2007-11-28 10:22 am (UTC)But I'll still be in tears for a few hours, because that's what love stories like this do to me.
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Date: 2007-11-28 05:07 am (UTC)Although I do feel bad for poor Spendi. By now she's got to be wondering if she's going to end up paired off with the bear. :)
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Date: 2007-11-28 03:47 pm (UTC)cute anyhow
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Date: 2007-11-28 04:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-28 05:00 pm (UTC)(Although I don't actually know, since it's a pic from Cute Overload. But I'm sure no hamsters were harmed in the making of the pic.)
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Date: 2007-11-28 06:29 pm (UTC)classreligionsocial statusmoral turpitudeall.no subject
Date: 2007-11-28 07:57 am (UTC)And a foreboding sense of d00m...
Yes, what about Spendi? You have to pair her up too, otherwise your fandom will. *leer*
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Date: 2007-11-28 06:27 pm (UTC)Spendi should be talking to her babydaddy (I'm sure the ancient Romans used the term "babydaddy" at some point...).
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Date: 2007-11-28 09:25 am (UTC)and then you're not careful
then the badness starts
bu oh *makes a sound that reminds of something nice and soft and fluffy*
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Date: 2007-11-28 01:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-28 02:17 pm (UTC)Servitude does not allow for morning snuggling.
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Date: 2007-11-28 04:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-28 04:26 pm (UTC)In Spendi's defense, she's probably cranky and nauseated by having to put together someone else's bowl of morning kibble, so some growling on the other sides of doors is in order.
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Date: 2007-11-28 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-28 06:24 pm (UTC)I'd give them one, but since this is ancient Rome, it would all too likely end up rolled in honey and sesame seeds on the dinner table.
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Date: 2007-11-29 04:30 am (UTC)Exclamation points!
Date: 2007-11-28 10:43 pm (UTC)I adore Latin-- I studied it for six years. I even picked my username based of my love of Latin! (You get a prize if you guess which poem it's from! But not a very good prize.)
So naturally I love ancient Rome. I am also queer, which is pretty cool. And this is the first time I get to engage both of those loves at once!
So, this is me saying, thanks! Cute gay men in Rome! (Especially Menander, with his gorgeous lips, mm!)
The stunning story and art just make it better :) I mean, seriously, this is one of the most beautifully-executed webcomics I've seen, and look forward every page.
As for the volcano...my policy is, "what volcano?" ;)
Re: Exclamation points!
Date: 2007-11-28 11:33 pm (UTC)Anyway, hi Klio. I've been reading SPQR Blues for a few months now, since my girlfriend turned me on to it. Needless to say, I think it's great--especially the way you deal with the social interactions and mores (e.g., the whole "moral turpitude" thing) and all the details of Roman (Herculaneumian?) life. And, I squee over Mus and Menander. Is it ok if I friend you?
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Date: 2007-11-29 12:07 am (UTC)Re: Exclamation points!
Date: 2007-11-29 01:57 am (UTC)My Catullus is horribly weak these days. I've spent so much time staring at ancient furniture and earrings and Herculaneumian architecture, I've been neglecting literature. Time to leap back in, I think....
Re: Exclamation points!
Date: 2007-11-29 02:15 am (UTC)I have completely abandoned the classics simply because I am in college now, and need to find a major which can lead...anywhere. (This is the same reason women's studies is out, alas).
(Also I'm not really sure if anything can be better than spending a whole year reading the Aeneid with my best friend.)
But SPQR Blues is an easy way for me to feel like I'm keeping in touch-- like I walk past Classics on my way to class, and we exchange pleasant small talk with a touch of nostalgia, and I can continue on my way without feeling like a bad friend.
Or maybe it's more like being Facebook friends with Classics. I watch them obsessively over the internet, and spend a lot of time thinking about Classics' personal life and drama, but never really do anything with them outside the internet.
It's a lot like being Facebook friends with Classics.
But I promise, if I had the "Top Friends" Facebook application, thanks to SPQRB, Classics would be #1!
Re: Exclamation points!
Date: 2007-11-29 02:43 am (UTC)The course I took that combined women's studies and Classics should have been my favourite, but the professors were a little deranged. It led me to all sorts of nifty extracurricular reading, though.
One of my friends struggled through the Aeneid with me in class in high school, but I don't think she enjoyed it much. My main way of getting friends interested in Latin was to tell them elaborate stories about ancient Rome and use Latin in roleplaying game puzzles. They put up with my obsessions for some reason. Maybe they were waiting for me to get to the part of the story with all the wild Roman orgies XD
Re: Exclamation points!
Date: 2007-11-29 02:04 am (UTC)Thanks for stopping by to say hullo, thank you so much for compliments that will have me blushing all night, and I think I can promise a continuing big role for Menander... though I'm contractually obligated to mention that Felix will be in the story again somewhere, too :)
Volcano? I don't see any volcano. Just a pretty bay, some lovely cypress trees swaying in the breeze, maybe some birdies....