For the fun of it....

[orichalcum]

So, I'm writing an article/paper/part of the book currently on female-authored Pompeian graffiti. This means that I have to do a lot of interpretation and inference from very little data.

So, gentle reader, tell me a story - who do _you_ think the protagonists and hidden narrative are behind each of these graffiti?


1. "I would not sell my man/husband for any price."

2. Valens [the master of the house], 'Lady.' Would that I were a Lady. We ask for health.

3. Livia greets Alexander. If you are well, I don't care much; if you are dying, I'll come running.

Comments

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Well, we're not sure how old genital warts are - there aren't mentions of them in ancient medical texts. Dirty genitals got blamed on the female partner, but there's no sense of disease associated with them in the texts we have. Who knows what got passed down through oral tradition, though?

[jab2.livejournal.com]

"Who knows what got passed down through oral tradition, though?"

...

so to speak??? (ducks and runs...)