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Aunt Flavia
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Frank Petrexa
Tribune
So, you've written grant applications before.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Thanks for the likes and comments!
Just one more thing. The picture that inspired me for this story, was a great one, made by @crumera and posted earlier this year :
In his comment, Crumera focused on the scene in the background, with the wife of a murderer saying goodbye to her crucified husband (comes briefly at the end of my story), and witnessed by the guard, who awaits relief of duty, so he can go to the pub to have drink.
But what about the three crucified in front of the pic, seen from their back. A man and two women.
In my imagination, the rightmost woman is tall and mature, I guess some 40-45 years old. The other two look younger, I figure, some 20 years younger than her.
Why have they been crucified? Are they related to each other?
My imagination did the rest.
Just one more thing. The picture that inspired me for this story, was a great one, made by @crumera and posted earlier this year :
Snapshots From My Timetravels
A war-hostage waiting for the ultimatum to expire. The "partisan" who defaced the office of the Commandtur is the ex boyfriend of Svetalana. He doesn't mind to see her slowly hang till death. @Apostate I like ladies in skirts, can't help it.. Steal away for your thread:p
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In his comment, Crumera focused on the scene in the background, with the wife of a murderer saying goodbye to her crucified husband (comes briefly at the end of my story), and witnessed by the guard, who awaits relief of duty, so he can go to the pub to have drink.
But what about the three crucified in front of the pic, seen from their back. A man and two women.
In my imagination, the rightmost woman is tall and mature, I guess some 40-45 years old. The other two look younger, I figure, some 20 years younger than her.
Why have they been crucified? Are they related to each other?
My imagination did the rest.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Thanks, Crumera! Glad you liked it!You made my day Loxuru
Feeling honored to have made the inspirational picture for your story!
Great story BTW
Jastrow, I believe.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
I agree with the 'masterpiece' (one from Jastrow's many), however, this didn't inspire me for the story.
But I agree, it sets a comparable company.
Only the order of the crosses is different. But it often happens that witness accounts differ.
Unfortunately, the only 'historical source' I had available, was Crumera's pic.
Maybe, as this one reveals, Alexius had a secret crush for his aunt.
Flavia, Alexius, Domitia and Drusus were found guilty for murder and conspiracy and condemned to death.
The judge added an addendum to the verdict. Since Alexius and Domitia had taken part in the murder of their own father, they had committed patricide. Since all four were condemned for conspiracy, the consequences of this verdict also applied on equal terms to Flavia and Drusus.
The judge added an addendum to the verdict. Since Alexius and Domitia had taken part in the murder of their own father, they had committed patricide. Since all four were condemned for conspiracy, the consequences of this verdict also applied on equal terms to Flavia and Drusus.
But in Flavia’s mind, it was still twilight! She had never considered that Drusus could have a wife. She never had asked about it. She had thought he was a loner. Another sad misjudgment she had made, particularly sad for the woman.
It was still twilight in Flavia’s mind! She could not chase the view of Drusus and the woman!
It was still twilight in Flavia’s mind! She could not chase the view of Drusus and the woman!
The next day started for Flavia with watching how her favourite nephew and niece were flogged and multiple raped, before she and Drusus got the same treatment. Clad in rags, they were forced to march, in chains, through the streets of Luna, to outside the gate. Their calvary of humiliation, pain and anticipation of more pain and death, ended at a field of stakes, waiting for flesh to die on. The stakes were erected on a hill, overlooking the sea, and in front of a small wooden army outpost.
That’s what Flavia imagined what Gaius was thinking, as she saw him look at her. Flavia meanwhile tried to suppress the terrible pain by staying as motionless as possible. Gaius’ square nails terribly scratched against her wrist and ankle bones, any time she made a move. And although the cornu felt uncomfortable and painful too, penetrating in her ass, it gave her a relative resting seat. She breathed heavily, but she could at least breathe! The inconvenience of the situation was of course that she kept all the time aware of her surroundings, and of her own humiliating situation. Enough to be aware of her’s and Domitia’s and Alexius’ public nudity. They never had seen each other naked before, now they were it all three together, their bare flesh publically exposed. She felt shame for herself and vicarious shame for Alexius and Domitia. And she noticed Alexius and Domitia had the same feelings towards her. All three watched each other, horrified, but each time avoided and turned down each other’s eye contact.
Flavia would have wanted to shout to the onlookers to go away and at least leave them to suffer alone. But she knew it would not help at all. Gaius had at least behaved correctly during the nailing, but not his assistants. They had made demeaning and ambiguous remarks, insulted her, touched her, and particularly, they had had behaved rudely when they had fitted her cornu. As she was up now, she felt the lustful looks on her body, from Gaius and his men, from the soldiers, from the other condemned. There would be more people to come, soon.
Flavia would have wanted to shout to the onlookers to go away and at least leave them to suffer alone. But she knew it would not help at all. Gaius had at least behaved correctly during the nailing, but not his assistants. They had made demeaning and ambiguous remarks, insulted her, touched her, and particularly, they had had behaved rudely when they had fitted her cornu. As she was up now, she felt the lustful looks on her body, from Gaius and his men, from the soldiers, from the other condemned. There would be more people to come, soon.
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Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Thanks, Madiosi!
Marcius
Tribune
'Caesarem appello!' Flavia howled. 'Kaisara fucking epikaloumai!'
A well-written crux story, even if I'm not sure Italian municipal authorities could execute Roman citizens. Historians still argue over that, I think.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Thanks for the comments, Marcius.'Caesarem appello!' Flavia howled. 'Kaisara fucking epikaloumai!'
A well-written crux story, even if I'm not sure Italian municipal authorities could execute Roman citizens. Historians still argue over that, I think.
I admit I took some 'artistic liberty', to arrange aunt Flavia's ultimate social falling down. As far as I found out, there was no seperate justice apparatus in Roman times. There was no seperation of powers as we know today, and speaking justice fell under what we would call today, executive power. Being a magistrate was part of the job of an administrator.
The general knowledge is, that Roman citizens were exempt of the sentence of crucifixion, but for the sake of the story fantasy, one could assume that these civil rights could be forfeited in certain cases, i.e. to set an exemple when the crime had threatened the social order of Roman society, as the Judge assumes in this story.
Marcius
Tribune
John Granger Cook. Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World p. 372. said:
It's just that Flavia and her co-crucified seem to be pretty important and not just some beachcombing children of freedmen, hence they probably would've been sent to Rome for trial. Might've been the sack instead of cross for them, too, but I've yet to see anyone with such fetish. 
cire
Governor
Really good how you write about the emotional ups and downs of the crucified. Very intense.......
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Thanks, Cire! These ups and downs in the face of pain and humiliation, and ultimate death, make the experience intense.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
My own humble attempt to depict Aunt Flavia's fate (model is from a 1950's or 1960's BW vintage BDSM pic; background is the landscape near Carrara, with modern day houses, roads and TV antenna removed).
Here is the backstory :
Near Carrara, archeologists discovered that a mediëval farmstead has been built on the basements of a Roman villa. Scanning the walls with non-destructional methods, revealed a wall painting under the stucco.
The raw picture has been subjected to progressive digital processing.
Finally, the process revealed how the painting could have looked like.
And they even managed to upgrade it to nearly a BW photograph quality.
Archeologists and historians are convinced that the wall painting shows the crucifixion of a woman named Flavia, during the reign of emperor Trajan. Flavia had been condemned to death, together with her niece and nephew, for murdering her brother-in-law.
Roman citizens were rarely executed by crucifixion. A crucifixion of a Roman patrician woman and her family must have been a rare event, that it was a long remembered social event among the population and the patrician class. In so far that tradition remembers it up to today.
Here is the backstory :
Near Carrara, archeologists discovered that a mediëval farmstead has been built on the basements of a Roman villa. Scanning the walls with non-destructional methods, revealed a wall painting under the stucco.
The raw picture has been subjected to progressive digital processing.
Finally, the process revealed how the painting could have looked like.
And they even managed to upgrade it to nearly a BW photograph quality.
Archeologists and historians are convinced that the wall painting shows the crucifixion of a woman named Flavia, during the reign of emperor Trajan. Flavia had been condemned to death, together with her niece and nephew, for murdering her brother-in-law.
Roman citizens were rarely executed by crucifixion. A crucifixion of a Roman patrician woman and her family must have been a rare event, that it was a long remembered social event among the population and the patrician class. In so far that tradition remembers it up to today.