Just as the title says, kindly suggest A story set in Roman time whether a fictional character or an average guy sent back to the past.
Includes sex and gore(or just fighting)
Just as the title says, kindly suggest A story set in Roman time whether a fictional character or an average guy sent back to the past.
Includes sex and gore(or just fighting)
'Spirit Quest' also by Fantasy Lover, is also set in ancient Rome, just about six hundred years later than 'When In Rome', when the Roman Empire was starting to fragment back into smaller kingdoms.
https://storiesonline.net/s/15868/spirit-quest
Lumpy's The Sword of Jupiter follows a future astronaut sent back to an alternate past where Rome lost the Punic Wars to Carthage. "Rome" is reduced to what appears to be the current Devon, UK area. They were driven from Rome proper 150 years before the story and Londonium 20 years prior. (So the story takes place around what would have been about 50 BC.)
The story is still posting here on SoL.
https://storiesonline.net/s/26194/the-sword-of-jupiter
https://storiesonline.net/a/lumpy
what appears to be the current Devon, UK area
The setting is closer to current day Liverpool (Devnum was one of the names used for a real world ancient Roman city near there) in the year 21 BC.
(the chapters where that is more spelled out haven't posted yet, but ...)
I grew up in that area knowing Deva was the roman site where Chester is now, I have since learned the full name was Deva Victris.
A brief search hasn't identified a roman location of Devnum. Please would you enlighten me.
That was me misspeaking. I should have said Deva was one of the names for a city not far from there, and I altered it and a few other names based on other factors that would come into play later in the books. So Deva became Devnum in this altered history (there are specific reasons for that).
Well, my Google-fu isn't that good; I kept getting results like "device number" when I tried looking up "Devnum." Liverpool makes more sense than what I had in my head, especially for people who have been hounded to the ends of the (known) earth...
I liked SmokinDriver's - A Trip to Remember 1
https://storiesonline.net/s/22815/a-trip-to-remember-1
https://storiesonline.net/series/430/kallistes-storytime is a set of stories which start off during Minoan times and progress through - with one exception - Roman times. The one exception was set in the 1800's.
The stories are Premier Only nowadays.
The author's name was Bruce Bretthauer and he wrote stories elsewhere under his real name which never made it to this site, some were set in an alternate universe - similar to time travel.
In dead tree press, the original time travel to Rome story was Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp (1939) & has a sequel The Apotheosis of Martin Padway (2005) by S.M. Stirling.
Inspired by it are To Bring The Light by David Drake, Temporal Discontinuity by David Weber, The Fake Pandemic by Harry Turtledove & The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass by Frederik Pohl.
Proeliator by John Wales has the protagonist transported from modern Canada (I think) to Europe on the outskirts of Roman Empire.