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Living in Pompeii before Vesuvius' eruption in 79 AD. History and RolePlay under the shadow of this crucial historic event.

Taberna: the business quarter (1 threads, 565 posts)
    Phil´s Exotica (55 posts)
    Role Play Thread 0 Featured January 23 , 2004

    The Romans were more interested in regulating prostitution, not eradicating it, in spite of their general contempt for women who became prostitutes. They adopted the idea of state-controlled brothels, or lupinar (house of she-wolves) but it wasn't until the time of the Emperor Augustus that a set of codes governed the behavior, restrictions and privileges of prostitutes. They were forbidden to cover their faces in public, forbidden to wear the color purple, to wear shoes or to put their hair in fillets. They were also required to dye their hair red or yellow. ...
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    Author: * Arrius Flavius - 13 Posts on this thread out of 105 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Dec 21, 2005 - 19:08

    The two men lay back to back in the small bed that they were forced to share. Arrius was snoring lightly while Verrius lay there wide awake. He couldn't get certain thoughts out of his head. Those thoughts had a name...Sextus Manlius. Verrius was determined to find out just who he was and what his relationship to Arrius was. He wasn't sure why we had to know, he just knew that he did. Arrius had mentioned earlier that he needed to go somewhere on the following day and Verrius decided that it would be the perfect time for himself to go somewhere. Arrius had told him very little about Sextus but he had mentioned the name of his villa...Green Acres. It shouldn't be too difficult for him to find the place.


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