DON’T TRVST THE ROMANS. THEY CAN’T EVEN COVNT!
Concerning SF, the Roman era, time, security and fellowship with strangers, may I recommend the extraordinary speech given by the mad genius PKD to the SF writers association in 1978?
How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later
http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm
Quote: “If the real time is circa A.D. 50, then why do we see A.D. 1978? And if we are really living in the Roman Empire, somewhere in Syria, why do we see the United States?”