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Topic Started: Mar 26 2014, 01:11 PM (49 Views)
Ira Ivnonis
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Rumor reaches Roma of some of the happenings in the East and some of it has made for excellent banter amongst dinner guests and many equestrian posh parties and even perhaps a handful of patrician ones. While those who own interests are affected by the rise in piracy in the region others care little as it has not adversely hit their pockets just yet. For them, the talk is the rumors which swirl around the would be Seleucid kings and their consorts. Word has especially been spreading of Bolon I "Agalamtias" as he is being called, meaning 'like a statue' for his physical qualities. He has many Roman women telling tales of his beauty as if they had seen him themselves, their own stories told to them by others and still others, only the original knowing for sure. Young women swoon over the story of how he saved the young Cappadocian Princess Antochis and her Persian mother Queen Isias from certain death at the hands of her brother King Ariarathes X nearly singlehandedly after he heard of her plight. They go on to claim he fell madly in love with her and has taken her as a wife just before the birth of their son.

Older women however tell a different story and while he notices the clear beauty of the young princess which she received from her mother, he instead has fallen in love with the regal mother. The middle aged queen, struck by the unbridled passion for the younger man could not help herself. These same women also agree Bolon has married young Antochis but only because it would be improper for the regal queen to marry him; she with proper foresight wishes to ensure her daughter a proper husband but his heart belongs to the queen and allege the young child of Bolon is her's and not the young daughter's.

The husbands of the women who tell these tales scoff at these rumors and shake their heads, dismissing the whole thing as nonsense; perhaps because they really do not believe or are irked their women fantasize of a young king to sweet them off their feet. They instead prefer the tale of Diotodos I, another would be Seleucid King, who exemplifies all the best qualities in a man. Many of the older men who speak of the east mention him and say he is both an honorable man but also that he would make Roma an excellent ally and wonder why the curia has not tried to speak with him, after all, great respect is due the man who continued to fight to the end to protect his city and his people and still to this day holds them under his protection.

Younger men agree with the comments of their elders but amongst themselves speak as any younger man would; of all manner of sordid nature and for that they cannot help but spread the tales of Polyperchon I. They laugh at the idea that he considers himself a god yet all the rumors they hear is that many claim he is treated so and has a mighty harem too boot. They shake their heads in jealousy over the idea of taking a different girl to bed each night and over the rumors he has sex with wives of those under him at will and it is seen as an honor for a god to lay with a mortal; increasing the prestige of the husband.

Finally it seems the publicans all talk with some jealously over what Euclid has established, a veritable haven for merchants and trade where all manner of things could be bought, sold or traded for and the excess of wealth he seems to enjoy; their minds not of the carnal desires but of the solid dispensable type.

Of course many who hear these tales simply roll their eyes at the absurdity of it all. They are sure some of it is true but most cannot be what is really happening and so like any cup of wine these should be taken with a grain of salt. (Note: I'm referencing how wine was often cut with sea water)




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