The place of action.
Instead of the Roman Empire, let's have an idyllic Arcadia. It is not a centralized state, but a confederation of small polises and islands united by a common legal system. A kind of European Union in the ancient surroundings. Culture corresponds to Ancient Greece minus rationality - geometry and philosophy. The convenience of everyday life is provided by some modern and promising technologies, as well as magic: solar panels, reverse osmosis pumps for clean water, magic paintings for instant movement and loading consciousness for the transmigration of souls, etc. These miracles are the legacy of the Titans, which the population uses, but does not know how to create, without understanding the principles of the device. The work is not difficult: grazing cattle and harvesting fruit trees provide food for everyone. There are no diseases, the birth rate is regulated by pre-established contraception. Fatal conflicts are practically absent, so people have a lot of free time for love games and other amusements. This is an essential element of culture, because a group marriage consists not just of a man and a woman, but of a chain of men and women. On average, a woman gives birth to no more than two children for simple reproduction of the population. The exception is the Amazons, who give birth to only one girl, protesting against masculine exploitation. However, Amazons choose real bulls as fathers for their daughters. Every child should have a father, and everyone has their own. A woman gives birth to a son to an older husband and a daughter from a younger one. The younger husband also has a wife who has her own husband and so on. It's much easier to raise children instead. When children reach adulthood, the consciousness of aging clan members settles into their heads. This is how immortality is achieved with eternal youth. However, sometimes mysterious failures occur and consciousnesses from another world are populated into young bodies... It is extremely important for boys and girls to find new marriage partners for their clan, which will suit all members of the clan. Therefore, the clan cannot be very large, because the larger the clan, the more options need to be sorted out to satisfy everyone. During the mating games, which do not stop for a minute, all means are good: courtship, seduction, ritual orgies, temple prostitution, sexual slavery, abduction with rape. Therefore, young people of both sexes simply need corporal punishment! Crucifixion in Arcadia has never been a death penalty, but being a spectacular and shameful method of torture, it is most popular. A cultural temple complex that does not belong to any of the clans, where marriages are performed and punishments are carried out, this is the policy as an "administrative unit".
