Saturday 29 August 2020

Characters In "Star Of The Sea"

"Star of the Sea."

Tacitus
Claudius Civilis
Julius Classicus
Julius Tutor (see previous link)
Petillius Cerialus
Veleda
Galba
Otho
Vitellius
Vespasian
Fabius Valens
Nero
Munius Lupercus
Boiocalus
Julius Briganticus

3 comments:

S.M. Stirling said...

Well, Vespasian is off-stage...8-).

Interesting how contingent history is. The fate of the Julio-Claudians (and the Year of the Four Emperors and the ascension of Vespasian) all turned on which of Augustus' many declared heirs actually survived him.

Harry Turtledove did a good YA alternate history (GUNPOWDER EMPIRE) about a world in which Augustus' right-hand man (and very able guy) Agrippa survived him and succeeded him, rather than the neurotics, nutjobs and weirdos who did in our history.

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Oh yes, a lot of these guys are off-stage but their stories all interconnect.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Mr. Stirling!

Turtledove's GUNPOWDER EMPIRE did make me wonder what might have happened if Marcus Agrippa had survived and succeeded his father in law Augustus as Emperor.

Of the four successors of the family of Augustus who succeeded him, the most decent was probably Claudius.

Ad astra! Sean