In my new story in Fate: Tales of History, Mystery and Magic, Stannia and Federicus are ‘time-stitchers’ in a future timeline where the Roman Empire is still going strong. No, it’s not Roma Nova, but a completely made-up world.
The instigator of this short story collection, Helen Hollick, told the ten authors to let […]
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In previous centuries, belief in fate was strong. Kismet, karma, destiny, the will of a god or gods were the ways people accepted good or bad fortune. Going further back, Greeks and (the especially superstitious) Romans were extremely wary of the Fates.
Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos were the three Moirai, the version of the […]
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Bas-relief of Ancient Rome vigiles by Carlo Sorgi (1941) at the Italian National Firefighters Training School
When I wrote a post about Ancient Roman law enforcement, I discovered how complicated the system was. Vigiles were principally firefighters but carried out policing duties as well and cohortes urbanae were heavy duty riot police. They’d […]
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