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by klio on 14 February 2020 at 4:07 pm
  1. David Watson
    14 February 2020, 6:17 pm | #

    Happy Valentine’s Klio. A pound of virtual chocolates in your favorite varieties to you. DRW

    • klio
      14 February 2020, 6:58 pm | #

      Happy Valentine’s to you too. May all your downloads go smoothly and swiftly.

  2. David Watson
    15 February 2020, 11:21 am | #

    Downloads worked: I’m in.

    • klio
      15 February 2020, 2:43 pm | #

      I am ridiculously excited for you to meet Arthur.

  3. Jerry B.
    16 February 2020, 8:01 am | #

    Still makes me go, “Awww”.

  4. FDChief
    5 April 2020, 10:11 am | #

    Hope you’re well and staying safe indoors.

    Strange sensation, being besieged by a virus rather than being the one going over the wall. Felix might have some rather pointed thoughts on that one.

    Any luck with the site fix..?

    • klio
      5 April 2020, 10:51 am | #

      Hi— So far, all is good. I hope the same for you and all of yours. If I were to get the story up and running again, our beloved emperor Titus would be at the point where he’s in the midst of dealing with the crises and several disasters besetting his people, with compassion, generosity, and aplomb.

      Things here have been hectic and strange, as they are everywhere on our planet. I care for a family member who for other health reasons has been in home-isolation since early on, and so I have also been on home isolation, though there is a tiny suspicion that my long, scary illness from January to the beginning of March might not have been the flu(!). I hoping testing will be available at some point for that, since they’re saying there could be useful antibodies from anyone who had a case of this and came out the other side.

      Felix doesn’t take well to being cooped up indoors!

      Take care of yourself! Be safe and be well.

      • FDChief
        11 April 2020, 10:26 pm | #

        Kinda wondered about that illness…if it was (and given the testing we may never know) I’m glad it was just the “low-grade-misery” version and not the “go-to-ICU” type.

        Weirdly, my job is such that I’m out and about pretty much all the time. It’s kind of…weird, like a sort of pathogen Russian roulette. Is THIS the person who has it? Are they infectious? Am I going to pick it up? Handwashing and masks and gloves only go so far…

        Gives me a sort of insight into what the Antonine Plague must have been like for the Romans…

  5. Greywolf the Wanderer
    8 April 2020, 4:29 am | #

    good to see you are safe, and yeah, you might be right about yon flu. I hope we do get an antibody test sooner than later. lot of us old campaigners around with useful skills, champing at the bit to be of some use again.

    for now, ave, Klio!

    • klio
      8 April 2020, 8:46 am | #

      Thank you! If my most useful skill is to sit in a chair and donate blood, at least it would be something!

      Ave, vale!

  6. Tish Wells
    19 April 2020, 1:20 pm | #

    Glad you are staying safe. I’m reading the book now (don’t think of the passing years…) and enjoying it a lot. Take care, stay safe.

    • klio
      19 May 2020, 2:11 pm | #

      Thank you for all, and I hope all is well with you too. Years? I can’t even keep track of what day it is, right now!

  7. FDChief
    20 April 2020, 10:09 pm | #

    Speaking of The Plague, thought you might enjoy this:

    http://firedirectioncenter.blogspot.com/2020/04/thats-how-sieges-work-phil.html

  8. Jenny
    28 May 2020, 12:40 am | #

    You may have already seen this, but another fascinating little discovery at Pompeii.
    http://pompeiisites.org/en/press-releases/the-luck-and-the-protection-against-the-bad-fate-in-the-jewelery-of-regio-v/

    • klio
      5 June 2020, 12:55 am | #

      It’s splendid!

      Sorry it took me a while to approve your comment. The site has been inundated with spam comments lately. It needs a complete overhaul 🙂

  9. little gator
    30 June 2020, 12:16 pm | #

    https://www.realmofhistory.com/2019/07/17/oldest-known-christian-autograph/

  10. FDChief
    6 August 2020, 3:20 pm | #

    How’s the site overhaul going? Any hope for new content between now and the end of the Plague Year..?

    • klio
      11 August 2020, 2:18 pm | #

      Even assuming the Plague Year actually ends with 2020… yes 🙂

      • FDChief
        19 August 2020, 12:24 am | #

        2020 is The Plague Year.

        2021 will be Plague Year 2: Electric Boogaloo.

  11. David Watson
    12 August 2020, 2:52 pm | #

    meanwhile, your devoted fans are pining for the Fjords of the Tiber and waiting for the Blue Parrots of prosperity to come winging home to the City of Romulus and Remus. Trying to be patient, but it ain’t Easy! DRW

  12. David Watson
    13 August 2020, 11:11 am | #

    Uhh, could the next SPQR series include a scene wherein Felix buys a beautiful caged bird in the market for Petronia? A rare Norwegian blue parrot? Maybe for next Valentines?

  13. David Watson
    13 August 2020, 11:12 am | #

    Justa of course. sorry about the name confusion. DRW

    • klio
      13 August 2020, 11:44 am | #

      No worries—she’s both (Petronia Justa :D)

  14. David Watson
    14 August 2020, 3:51 pm | #

    Well you know what they say about Redheaded Roman girls… call them by the wrong name in the heat of passion and they’ll knock your sox off! Didn’t want to take chances!

  15. Jerry B.
    21 August 2020, 7:34 am | #

    I continue to click, hoping some day to see Felix actually eat some lunch. Will I prevail, or ultimately be disappointed? Only Klio knows.

    • klio
      21 August 2020, 8:05 am | #

      Felix might be hangry enough to conspire against an imperial heir at this point.

  16. David Watson
    21 August 2020, 9:46 am | #

    Yes, we need a good, spirited conspiracy!

  17. David Watson
    10 October 2020, 12:57 pm | #

    Oh Mighty Klio! Check your e mail. I have just sent you a missive concerning Roman ships. You might find it intriguing. DRW

  18. CJG
    27 November 2020, 10:07 am | #

    I just discovered a YouTube channel called “Tasting History” whose shtick is recreating very old recipes. It’s not a whole cooking show in as much as it’s a food based history lesson.

    This was the first episode that showed up in my feed, so I had to share it here!
    Garum, or fish-pickle sauce!

    https://youtu.be/5S7Bb0Qg-oE

    • klio
      18 December 2020, 9:11 am | #

      I’m so jealous of this channel 🙂 I once almost rented an apartment with a kitchen that looked like it had been designed for doing nice, warm, cosy YouTube cooking videos, and I had a whole plan in my head. I think about the apartments (and houses) that got away a lot. 😛

  19. Jerry B.
    18 December 2020, 8:08 am | #

    I’m beginning to despair.

    • klio
      18 December 2020, 9:07 am | #

      What if I give everyone a Saturnalia gift?

  20. Jerry B.
    19 December 2020, 7:39 am | #

    That would be nice. Can you get Felix some lunch, too?

  21. FDChief
    6 January 2021, 10:01 am | #

    Just checking in now that we’re another year older…

    • klio
      6 January 2021, 11:01 am | #

      Oh, um, it’s not the real Roman new year until the proper original new year celebration in March, you see…

      (I really do feel like this story is stuck in my head trying so very very hard to climb out.)

  22. David Watson
    14 January 2021, 1:49 pm | #

    It may not be the Roman new year, but you’ve gotta admit, political developments in the US have a very Roman texture. Oops, I just saw Caligula going by on roller-skates! DRW

  23. FDChief
    5 March 2021, 3:27 pm | #

    From the political blog “Lawyers, Guns, and Money”: The GOP as Catiline Conspiracy (https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/03/gop-as-catiline-conspiracy)

    So…yeah.

    • klio
      5 March 2021, 3:50 pm | #

      So. Yeah. I was wondering why this unceasing feeling of dread wasn’t ceasing 😐

      • FDChief
        7 March 2021, 2:00 pm | #

        What’s all the grimmer is to have been watching this for over a decade (https://firedirectioncenter.blogspot.com/2008/05/spqr-iii-tribunus-plebis.html)

        “In the past thirty years we have seen this cycle turn again, with the rich and the well-born shoving cash and influence into the system. The gap between rich and poor in this country are as wide and deep as any time since the 1890s.

        This is not a coincidence. It has been engineered by those we have elected, as surely as Cicero engineered the emasculation of the Senate and the People of Rome. And, like Cicero, those doing this surgery are sure that they are doing what is best for themselves and their country, since what is good for the Waltons, the Koches, the Bushes and the Walkers IS good for the country.

        I only wish that this was news. Our system of government, designed for a small agrarian republic, is failing under the weight of size, wealth and power. I don’t think we can reverse this cycle, this time. I think the system has broken down, overwhelmed by lucre, by fear and greed and cynicism. I think the American people have lost their zeal for liberty. I think that we are fated to decline into an increasingly turbulent diminution. I think that my children’s lives will be more difficult than mine, and theirs more difficult still.

        And like the Roman century left at the last frontier milecastle, sacrificed by our Emperor and ignored by our Senate, we can only hope to do our best to go down as slow as possible, die as hard as practical, before the fall of the gathering dark.”

  24. FDChief
    7 March 2021, 2:02 pm | #

    Yeah. I wrote this 12 years ago:

    “In the past thirty years we have seen this cycle turn again, with the rich and the well-born shoving cash and influence into the system. The gap between rich and poor in this country are as wide and deep as any time since the 1890s.This is not a coincidence. It has been engineered by those we have elected, as surely as Cicero engineered the emasculation of the Senate and the People of Rome. And, like Cicero, those doing this surgery are sure that they are doing what is best for themselves and their country, since what is good for the Waltons, the Koches, the Bushes and the Walkers IS good for the country.

    I only wish that this was news. Our system of government, designed for a small agrarian republic, is failing under the weight of size, wealth and power. I don’t think we can reverse this cycle, this time. I think the system has broken down, overwhelmed by lucre, by fear and greed and cynicism. I think the American people have lost their zeal for liberty. I think that we are fated to decline into an increasingly turbulent diminution. I think that my children’s lives will be more difficult than mine, and theirs more difficult still.

    And like the Roman century left at the last frontier milecastle, sacrificed by our Emperor and ignored by our Senate, we can only hope to do our best to go down as slow as possible, die as hard as practical, before the fall of the gathering dark.”

    That’s…not hopeful

  25. David Watson
    12 March 2021, 2:43 pm | #

    Beware, it’s 3 days till the Ides of March. Wear a mailshirt under your work-toga! Et Tu, Klio.

  26. David Watson
    15 March 2021, 10:13 am | #

    Caesar: Do not go to the Senate today… okay if you must, wear your mail shirt.

    • klio
      15 March 2021, 10:46 am | #

      I don’t see how my plain-brown-envelopes-and-metered-stamps jacket is going to help, but if you think so…

      I was about to post something today. But I feel like I should draw something new today!

  27. david watson
    15 March 2021, 3:31 pm | #

    Drawing would help. Maybe something with a platoons of buffoons on the Senatorial Steps… Beware the Idiots of March!

  28. David Watson
    15 March 2021, 3:32 pm | #

    Its just… I heard Brutus and his friends were threatening to go postal.

  29. little gator
    4 April 2021, 2:35 pm | #

    roman dolls: https://daily.jstor.org/girls-and-dolls-in-the-roman-empire/

  30. David Watson
    17 April 2021, 10:59 am | #

    The Roman dolls article is quite interesting. Take a look!

    • klio
      17 April 2021, 11:05 am | #

      I’m going to check it out! 🙂

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