#but also calamus is just. oughhh. so crassus is the starting point character and calamus is the only other character in crassus'
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headache finally tapering off but I have to get up early :(( I want to post about calamus!!!
#he's such a good angle for commentary on conspiracy narratives and how slaves in ancient rome did not have a cohesive identity#but it was complex and multifaceted in a way that's tragic compelling and upsetting#i have a great arc for him and a gladiator in rome to really get into the messy and contradicting aspects of it#but also calamus is just. oughhh. so crassus is the starting point character and calamus is the only other character in crassus'#narrative (excluding tertulla who has a different role to play) who has been there from ALMOST the start#none of the other tris homines have origin story comics. their narratives begin when crassus becomes aware of them#so calamus is also the person crassus has known the longest#within this story. and vice versa! there's a whole cast for crassus' household#calamus is the mainstay. he gets to do conspiracy on crassus' behalf. he actually gets co conspirator status for some of it!#i am going to be SO sad when he has to exit the story#(if it was not clear. calamus is a domestic slave altho later he becomes a freedman)
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