Lindsey Davis with Alison at the 2014 Historical Novel Society Conference
I was lurking in Waterstone’s Tunbridge Wells one day in the mid 1990s. (It had an apostrophe in the name then so I’ve left it in for authenticity.) My favourite genres were historical fiction, sci-fi, thrillers and crime. Wandering round the tables […]
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Unwritten codes of behaviour, maintaining standards, behaving ‘properly’ are as old as the hills, at least as old as the Seven Hills of Rome.
The mos maiorum, loosely translated as ‘ancestral custom’ was the unwritten code of ancient Rome. It included time-honoured principles, behavioural models and social practices that affected every aspect of life in […]
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Author photo, Venus and Mars, House of Mars And Venus, Pompeii, Naples Museum
Well, yes to sex – they are Romans – but not so much marriage, more informal family arrangements.
Marriage in the majority of cultures has meant one man and one woman, with the woman leaving her father’s family and joining […]
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