Wait, Pompeii was during this time?! Yup, would not have figured that from Feuchtwanger :P Also, YES to MORE CAENIS :D
Domitian definitely was assassinated, so you can go all Ides of March and do a tense conspiracy story there
Yes please! :D (I loved the Feuchtwanger take...)
incest! Domitian supposedly had an affair with Titus' daughter Julia after refusing to marry her while Titus according to master of sensationalistic gossip Suetonius could have had a fling with Domitian's wife near the end of his (i.e. Titus') life
...wait really? I forgot this or never knew it
Domitian may have been a creepy tyrant, but he was a competent creepy tyrant
hee!
Depending on how much the series draws on Feuchtwanger, controvery is guaranteed, because a great deal of the Josephus trilogy ponders what it means to be Jewish and whether that meaning can change (or not) in the diaspora, and whether or not revolting against a greater military power whom you know will respond with devastating force can be justified.
It did occur to me that the whole Messiah plotline would be... extremely controversial even by itself. When you add in eerything else about the revolt... I think it would be very hard to get this made!
Oh, I like and find very plausible that Joseph/Titus would be a major fan pairing. (And maybe also Joseph/Vespasian as the "edgy" pairing...?) I think Titus will be another fan favorite -- he just has a lot of qualities that make him rather woobie-like, culminating in his tragic death, of course! And his partisans would explain away all the parts that didn't fit their woobie image. (But my favorite is always Lucia, as you know!)
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Wait, Pompeii was during this time?! Yup, would not have figured that from Feuchtwanger :P Also, YES to MORE CAENIS :D
Domitian definitely was assassinated, so you can go all Ides of March and do a tense conspiracy story there
Yes please! :D (I loved the Feuchtwanger take...)
incest! Domitian supposedly had an affair with Titus' daughter Julia after refusing to marry her while Titus according to master of sensationalistic gossip Suetonius could have had a fling with Domitian's wife near the end of his (i.e. Titus') life
...wait really? I forgot this or never knew it
Domitian may have been a creepy tyrant, but he was a competent creepy tyrant
hee!
Depending on how much the series draws on Feuchtwanger, controvery is guaranteed, because a great deal of the Josephus trilogy ponders what it means to be Jewish and whether that meaning can change (or not) in the diaspora, and whether or not revolting against a greater military power whom you know will respond with devastating force can be justified.
It did occur to me that the whole Messiah plotline would be... extremely controversial even by itself. When you add in eerything else about the revolt... I think it would be very hard to get this made!
Oh, I like and find very plausible that Joseph/Titus would be a major fan pairing. (And maybe also Joseph/Vespasian as the "edgy" pairing...?) I think Titus will be another fan favorite -- he just has a lot of qualities that make him rather woobie-like, culminating in his tragic death, of course! And his partisans would explain away all the parts that didn't fit their woobie image. (But my favorite is always Lucia, as you know!)