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Offline Romanorum

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If you had no other choice, whose slave would you rather had been?
« on: October 26, 2009, 01:56:00 am »
Not that it is a dreamy position, but if you had to be a Palace slave in Ancient Rome, under which emperor would you have preferred to serve? Were the best emperors necessarily the best masters?
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Re: If you had no other choice, whose slave would you rather have been?
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2009, 02:06:06 am »
Claudius, I guess, based solely on the fact that he is the only one I can think of who had such noteworthy freeman like Narcissus, Pallas, Callistus.  And I'd hope not to share the fate of Polybius.

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Re: If you had no other choice, whose slave would you rather had been?
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2009, 03:17:09 am »
Elagabalus'  :evil: :evil: :evil:
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Re: If you had no other choice, whose slave would you rather had been?
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2009, 06:44:53 pm »
I already am a slave. I am married ... with teenage children.  :(

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Re: If you had no other choice, whose slave would you rather had been?
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2009, 10:17:01 pm »
Marcus Aurelius seemed like a nice enough bloke, although I might be unduly influenced by Alec Guinness' Marcus in The Fall of the Roman Empire.
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Re: If you had no other choice, whose slave would you rather had been?
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2009, 04:26:35 pm »
She-Who-Thinks-She-Ought-To-Be-Obeyed seems to think I'm a slave already.
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Re: If you had no other choice, whose slave would you rather had been?
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2009, 07:46:14 pm »
I think the no list is pretty scary: Elagabalus, not. aged Tiberius, not. Caracalla, not. "Little Boot", not. Commodus, not.
Put me down for Antoninus Pius.
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Re: If you had no other choice, whose slave would you rather had been?
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2009, 12:57:57 pm »
Quote from: Gavignano on October 27, 2009, 07:46:14 pm
I think the no list is pretty scary: Elagabalus, not. aged Tiberius, not. Caracalla, not. "Little Boot", not. Commodus, not.
Put me down for Antoninus Pius.

I agree with Gavignano. Antoninus Pius seems like the best option.
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Re: If you had no other choice, whose slave would you rather had been?
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2009, 01:46:32 pm »
Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on October 27, 2009, 04:26:35 pm
She-Who-Thinks-She-Ought-To-Be-Obeyed seems to think I'm a slave already.

My wife thinks you're a slave?
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Re: If you had no other choice, whose slave would you rather had been?
« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2009, 04:09:40 pm »
I'm just happy to see that so many people think of themselves as palace slaves in their own homes. I think the "palace" benefits seem to outweigh the "slave" part.

And by the way, I would have gone for Augustus, preferably in the last twenty years of his reign.
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Re: If you had no other choice, whose slave would you rather had been?
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2009, 04:49:54 pm »
Quote from: goldenancients on October 28, 2009, 01:46:32 pm
Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on October 27, 2009, 04:26:35 pm
She-Who-Thinks-She-Ought-To-Be-Obeyed seems to think I'm a slave already.

My wife thinks you're a slave?

It sounds as though they're spiritual sisters.
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Re: If you had no other choice, whose slave would you rather had been?
« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2009, 04:53:13 pm »
If you're forced to be a slave (God forbid!), I don't think the emperor would have much to do with how you are treated.  That would depend, I think, on your immediate overseers.  George S.
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