sappho
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- Aug 31, 2017
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I care about historical accuracy, I'm just not so self centred as to try and force that on developers who are free to do whatever they want. This is not a documentary, there is no obligation to be historically accurate, even if the idea that no noblewoman ever degraded herself in the eyes of her peers was believable, which it is not. You can very easily argue that Cornelia is an exception, or it is based on a lurid story told by plebs to make themselves feel better about being oppressed by the elites, or whatever.
Another thing to consider is who is telling us, from the Roman era, that patricians were united and virtuous? It was the patricians themselves, with a vested interest in maintaining the reputation of virtue, respectability and dignity. They are not reliable commentators on their own class, and even under those circumstances there is plenty of evidence to suggest that Roman noblewomen (and men) were up to all sorts of sexual adventures.
The bottom line is you are trying to hold a developer in 2019 to a standard that the Romans themselves would have failed spectacularly, both in their fiction and their reality.
I don't want to continue derailing Messieurs game thread so I shall not respond again to this.
Another thing to consider is who is telling us, from the Roman era, that patricians were united and virtuous? It was the patricians themselves, with a vested interest in maintaining the reputation of virtue, respectability and dignity. They are not reliable commentators on their own class, and even under those circumstances there is plenty of evidence to suggest that Roman noblewomen (and men) were up to all sorts of sexual adventures.
The bottom line is you are trying to hold a developer in 2019 to a standard that the Romans themselves would have failed spectacularly, both in their fiction and their reality.
I don't want to continue derailing Messieurs game thread so I shall not respond again to this.
