Caesar's clementia

queenofthorns and coffeeandink reminded me that I forget the difference between what everyone knows about Roman culture, and what crazy obsessive people like me know about Roman culture. So here's a brief discussion of Caesar's habit of pardoning his enemies.

( it's not exactly a virtue )

As an aside, two useful online sources of ancient texts are Lacus Curtius and the Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum.

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Yes, I am spamming livejournal. I'm home from work and require entertainment.

So, here's how it works. Name a character from one of the fandoms listed below. I will produce no fewer than 100 words on why I love that character.

BUT! There's a price. You must produce no fewer than 100 words on why you love another character in the same fandom. It doesn't need to be someone I'm all that familiar with, or even know at all. It just has to be love. Obvious choices are fine, and if someone else has either posted on that character or asked me to, go again and love on them anyway.

But actually, the 100 words from you is optional. You're welcome too it, but you don't have to.

Here we go:

Alias
Angel
BSG
Buffy
Deadwood
Farscape
Firefly
Harry Potter
Highlander
Homicide
Lord of the Rings
Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
Wes Wing
X Files

...or some other thing you know perfectly well I'm familiar with, like the Lymond Chronicles or Rome or the Riddle-Master Trilogy. Really.