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    Meeting Tiberius and Other Roman Tales

    By Clodia Metelli

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    This is a collection of tales drawn from the universe of Gaius and Achilles and Dancing Phaedra. Set in the first century BCE, in the tumultuous final decades of the Roman Republic, the stories centre on a group of friends and lovers living on the fringes of Rome's creative demi monde; a world of poets, actors, courtesans, theatrical impressarios, and well brought up Roman aristocrats who prefer cultivating Eros and the Muses to seeking honour and glory commanding legions or holding forth in the Senate.
    These stories offer a suggestive glimpse into the decadent milieu of that generation as hinted at in the denunciations of Cicero, the poems of Catullus and the admonitory, yet enticing sketch painted by the historian Sallust of louche circles existing in Rome around the time of Catiline's conspiracy.
    They also explore the amorous lives of the principle characters, in particular of how they find ways of giving expression to their desires and fantasies of giving and receiving erotic pain, playing with the tropes of dominance and submission while continuing gleefully to subvert the values of a society based on slavery, hierarchy ,and aggressive military expansion.
    It should be noted that these stories were originally written at different times over the past three years or so, and fill in the gaps between events depicted in the first two novels. Other than the first story, they therefore contain 'spoilers' for the earlier published works, which should be borne in mind for readers who are bothered by this. As they were written at different stages of writing the above novels, they may also contain minor chronological inconsistencies.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClodia Metelli
    Release dateJan 29, 2014
    ISBN9781310012754
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    Clodia Metelli

    I grew up in London, spending a childhood largely immersed in books and my own world of make-believe, fuelled by a kaleidoscope of literary and historical obsessions. This has mostly set the pattern for my life so far, and inspired me to spend years studying Greco-Roman society, gaining an MA and a PhD in the process.Now I live by the sea with my partner and a black cat called Achilles.I write both fantasy and historical fiction. Often my stories have a gay romance theme.Most of my historical fiction is set in the ancient Graeco-Roman period, which I studied for many years and which remains a passion with me (reading Suetonius can have a terribly corrupting effect on a young mind...).I aim to offer an alternative, more internalised window on Graeco-Roman society, the emotional and cultural lives of courtesans and poets rather than the deeds of gladiators and victorious generals. An elegiac rather than epic perspective.I also like to explore that period’s differing attitudes to sex and gender and imagine how individuals may have responded to the mores of their time, whether consciously defying them or finding some kind of liveable compromise.My fantasy fiction includes both urban vampire stories set in contemporary London and fantasy set in the ancient and decaying civilisation of Laurentium.

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