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The Roman Mysteries

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The Roman Mysteries	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Roman Mysteries is a series of historical detective novels for children, written by Caroline Lawrence. It is set in The Roman Empire during the 1st century AD. The books follow four children who solve mysteries and have adventures in Ostia, Rome, and throughout the empire. The lead character, Flavia, a middle-class Roman girl who lives in Ostia, is a self-styled detectrix. She is supported by Nubia, a slave girl from Africa; Jonathan, a Jewish boy; and Lupus, a mute beggar boy. CBBC adapted some of the books into a Live-Action TV show.Caroline Lawrence has started a sequal series called The Roman Mystery Scrolls, written for a slightly younger audience. She is also the author of The Western Mysteries.The main novels of the Roman Mysteries series are: The Thieves of Ostia (2001) The Secrets of Vesuvius (2001) The Pirates of Pompeii (2002) The Assassins of Rome (2002) The Dolphins of Laurentum (2003) The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina (2003) The Enemies of Jupiter (2003) The Gladiators from Capua (2004) The Colossus of Rhodes (2005) The Fugitive from Corinth (2005) The Sirens of Surrentum (2006) The Charioteer of Delphi (2006) The Slave-girl from Jerusalem (2007) The Beggar of Volubilis (2008) The Scribes from Alexandria (2008) The Prophet from Ephesus (2009) The Man from Pomegranate Street (2009)Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Additional books include: The Code of Romulus (2007): A novella published for World Book Day. Trimalchio's Feast and other mini-mysteries (2007): A collection of short stories. "The Case of the Missing Coin": Takes place after The Thieves of Ostia "Trimalchio's Feast": Takes place after The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina "Jonathan Vs. Ira": Takes place after The Enemies of Jupiter "The Case of the Citrus-Wood Table": Takes place after The Gladiators from Capua "The Case of the Talking Statue": Takes place after The Charioteer of Delphi "Death By Vespasian": Takes place after The Slave-girl from Jerusalem The Roman Mysteries Treasury (2007): A companion book with additional background information about the characters and factual information about The Roman Empire. Frome Ostia to Alexandria with Flavia Gemini (2008): A travel guide to the places mentioned in the series, based on Caroline Lawrence's own experience doing research trips for her stories. The Legionary from Londinium and other mini-mysteries (2010): A collection of short stories.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); }) "The Moon in Full Daylight": Takes place after The Sirens of Surrentum "The Legionary from Londinium": Takes place after The Sirens of Surrentum "Death by Medusa": Takes place before The Charioteer of Delphi "The Perseus Prophecy": Takes place after The Charioteer of Delphi "The Five Barley Grains": Takes place before The Slave-girl from Jerusalem "Threptus and the Sacred Chickens": Takes place after The Man from Pomegranate StreetThe TV Episodes are listed at Roman Mysteries (TV series).
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The Roman Mysteries / int_11cac491	comment	Tragedy: The characters discuss tragedies and the purpose of tragedies in general, and several Classical Greek tragedies in particular.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic B.S.O.D.: Jonathan experiences this at the end of The Enemies of Jupiter when he blames himself for a massive fire that killed thousands of people. It results in examples of Hurting Hero, It's All My Fault, and Survivor Guilt. For a time, he also adopts an alter ego called Ira (meaning wrath) that almost results in Becoming the Mask. When his friends first try to shake him out of it, he expresses a That Man Is Dead attitude toward his real name and identity. His new identity includes some of the elements of Madden Into Misanthropy, A Darker Me, and something that may even be mild form of Split Personality.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: As the series continues. The biggest shift occurs with The Enemies of Jupiter when Jonathan intends to murder Titus, accidentally helps start the great fire of Rome and almost commits suicide.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_1561fbc4	comment	Mystery Magnet: Flavia
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The Roman Mysteries / int_15d8e4f5	comment	Slave Liberation: Granting freedom to household slaves was actually common practice among the Romans. There are several examples of slaves being set free, but the most notable one is Flavia freeing her slave girl Nubia, by inviting her to recline at her coach. In The Slave Girl of Jerusalem the Roman custom of freeing slaves upon the death of their master is an important plot point.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_1694800f	type	Manly Men Can Hunt
The Roman Mysteries / int_1694800f	comment	Manly Men Can Hunt: Jonathan, Lupus, Aristo and Aristo's friend Lysander hunt on a regular basis.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The Roman Mysteries Treasury contains additional information about the characters, their backgrounds and the setting (namely The Roman Empire),
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The Roman Mysteries / int_1abf68d5	comment	You Meddling Kids: The most notable example of this is the ending of The Thieves of Ostia
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The Roman Mysteries / int_1b68e2e2	comment	The Chase: The Colossus of Rhodes, The Fugitive from Corinth, The Scribes from Alexandria, and The Prophet from Ephesus.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_1b9079be	comment	Snooping Little Kid: Lupus uses his skills at snooping, sneaking and eavesdropping several times throughout the series.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_1d9a2764	comment	Reality Ensues: Jonathan dreams of bringing back his enslaved Missing Mom and reuniting his parents. This is despite knowing their Arranged Marriage had problems and his mother was unfaithful to Mordecai. He eventually succeeds in getting them back together but his mother is still distant from the family and they never achieve the happy, idyllic marriage he imagined. Also Pulchra's crush on Jonathan. They kiss in Sirens to Surrentum but by the Distant Finale she's married to wealthy roman citizen. No the daughter of one of the most powerful men in Rome won't be marrying a middle class doctor's son who follows an illegal religion.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: The Romans were big fans of this. Several historically accurate examples of particularly brutal and horrific executions appear The Gladiators from Capua. Some of the examples include criminals being Fed to the Beast and Eaten Alive. Sometimes this involves being Chained to a Rock.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: As the series continues the adult's own flaws and issues are dealt with: Jonathan's mother abandoned her family to be with another man, Gaius runs away out of grief after Miriam dies and the previously saintly Mordecai becomes an alcoholic.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_21f5491	comment	Appease the Volcano God: The books actually give a real life twist on this common trope. Instead of virgin sacrifice, the Romans sacrifice fish as part of the Vulcanalia in The Secrets of Vesuvius.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_22472227	comment	Mystery Tropes: A wide variety of standard mystery story tropes are used throughout the series. Mystery Arc: Most of the stories Mystery Fiction: Most of the stories Mystery Magnet: Flavia
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The Roman Mysteries / int_22d6b3c	comment	No Sparks: Flavia and Jonathan agree they're this after their Practice Kiss in Sirens of Surrentum, and the only thing they noticed was what the other one had for lunch.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_25093f95	type	Slave Brand
The Roman Mysteries / int_25093f95	comment	Slave Brand: Jonathon is branded with one in The Assassins of Rome. It continues to cause him trouble in later books.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_275d19ee	comment	Birds of a Feather: Flavia and Flaccus, who are both bossy and judgmental but also prove to be brave, kind-hearted and highly intelligent.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Many of the books contain some Latin words; however most are translated either in the main text or in the glossary. In one story, however, one of the clues requires an understanding of Latin. A character says a word that is written in English, however if the word is translated back into the Latin that he would have actually been speaking, it points to the identity of the killer.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: All four of the main characters have Missing Moms. Nubia and Lupus undergo an Orphan's Ordeal and Jonathan and Flavia both have times when their fathers are literally or figuratively distant.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_29b218b4	type	In the Past, Everyone Will Be Famous
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The Roman Mysteries / int_2a729dd9	comment	Artifact Alias: Nubia is a former slave whose real name is Shepenwepet. She is renamed Nubia as that is the name given to all female Nubian slaves. Even after being freed, she continues to go by Nubia, saying "Nubia can be my new name for my new life."
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The Roman Mysteries / int_2a9b1de6	comment	Bear Trap: Poor Lupus gets stuck in a boar trap. Fortunately it is not bad as a Bear Trap, but is was still pretty bad.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_2c12473	type	Famous Last Words
The Roman Mysteries / int_2c12473	comment	Famous Last Words: Real Life Emperor Nero's Real Life Famous Last Words are referenced in The Beggar of Volubilis, though it is suggested that they may have actually been something less grandiose. Emperor Vespasian's Real Life Famous Last Words are also quoted in ''The Thieves of Ostia'.'
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The Roman Mysteries / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Flavia and Miriam are an amicable version while Flavia and Pulchra are more antagonistic. Nubia falls somewhere in the middle of the spectrum.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
The Roman Mysteries / int_2d768e2d	comment	Succession Crisis: Part of the plot in The Man from Pomegranate Street, as the result of the death of Roman Emperor Titus.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
The Roman Mysteries / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: Pliny the Elder and Rectina, in The Secrets of Vesuvius
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The Roman Mysteries / int_2fd985e3	comment	Pit Trap: Used in The Beggar of Volubilis to trap peoples that pursuing the main characters.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_31e2ad94	type	Kid Detective
The Roman Mysteries / int_31e2ad94	comment	Kid Detective: The four main characters are all kids, however Flavia is the primary one that refers to herself as a detective, or detectrix in the Latin.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_31f0842c	type	Age-Appropriate Angst
The Roman Mysteries / int_31f0842c	comment	Age-Appropriate Angst: There are several examples of this throughout the series, including Flavia's reaction to a Parent with New Paramour in The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_32030dfa	type	Mystery Fiction
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The Roman Mysteries / int_3318a1cb	comment	Also Pulchra's crush on Jonathan. They kiss in Sirens to Surrentum but by the Distant Finale she's married to wealthy roman citizen. No the daughter of one of the most powerful men in Rome won't be marrying a middle class doctor's son who follows an illegal religion.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_33981caf	comment	Street Urchin: Several examples appear in the series, however the most notable is Lupus, who becomes one of the four main characters.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: In The Fugitive From Corinth Marcus Flavius Geminus is stabbed and almost killed by a person attempting to murder Aristo. A beggar boy that was given a tunic by Lupus is thrown into a crocodile pit when he is mistaken for Lupus.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
The Roman Mysteries / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: This is done inadvertently. A boy that had stolen Jonathan's ring is killed in a fire. Finding his body makes everyone think that Jonathan is dead, which is fine with Jonathan because he wants to leave his identity behind and become a gladiator.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_3a2c615c	type	Shark Pool
The Roman Mysteries / int_3a2c615c	comment	Shark Pool: With crocodiles.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Miriam laments the fact that she is so attractive that she is always attracting an unwanted level of male interest.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Flavia does this several times, including in The Secrets of Vesuvius and The Legionary from Lodinium.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_41271766	comment	Happily Ever After: The end of the final book, where Flavia get married. There is also an example of Wealthy Ever After, as the main characters have been given a luxurious villa and lots of money.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_413e6726	comment	Deliberately Cute Child: Sometimes Flavia uses this trick during the course of an investigation.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
The Roman Mysteries / int_421ae215	comment	Mysterious Past: Lupus's origins and the reason he has no tongue are not revealed until several books into the series.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Roman Mysteries / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Discussed in The Slave-girl from Jerusalem when Nubia almost gets tortured for information. InThe Man From Pomegrante Street Jonathan suffers weeks of whipping and starvation to protect his father.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_427ca0d0	type	Animal Theme Naming
The Roman Mysteries / int_427ca0d0	comment	Lupus, the name of the wild character, means wolf. This is also a partial example of Animal Theme Naming although it does not fit that trope perfectly because Lupus is the only one with an animal name.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_43971f6f	type	Everything's Better with Monkeys
The Roman Mysteries / int_43971f6f	comment	Everything's Better with Monkeys: In Trimalchio's Feast the titular monkey doesn't necessarily make things better, but he certainly makes things more chaotic and amusing.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_43dc74d0	type	Sensitive Guy and Manly Man
The Roman Mysteries / int_43dc74d0	comment	Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Introspective, moody Jonathan and hot-tempered, street-smart Lupus are a kid version of this.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_449584c	type	Giant Wall of Watery Doom
The Roman Mysteries / int_449584c	comment	Giant Wall of Watery Doom: This happens off screen as the result of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which results in Marcus Flavius Geminus being shipwrecked and loosing his ship and all the money he had invested in his cargo, causing him to almost go bankrupt.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
The Roman Mysteries / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Detailed descriptions of the housing of various characters, to include maps of the houses, are used both to indicate wealth and to educate about historic Roman housing. Villa Limona is a good example of a truly big and fancy house.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Roman Mysteries / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Nubia and Lupus's backstories where the first is enslaved and the second has his tongue cut out and is forced to become a beggar. Their lives improve in the present day however. In contrast Jonathan undergoes this within the series itself as he gets branded as a slave, suffers gladiator training, has to carry the guilt of accidentally killing 20,000 people, loses his beloved sister and suffers weeks of Cold-Blooded Torture. Of all the main characters he's the only one who doesn't get a proper happy ending and is still described as a wanderer in the Distant Epilogue.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_4f10672d	type	Wrong Guy First
The Roman Mysteries / int_4f10672d	comment	Wrong Girl First: Aristo realizes his feelings for Miriam were just infatuation and falls in love with Nubia instead.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
The Roman Mysteries / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: THE AUTHOR USES ALL CAPS TO INDICATE THAT LUPUS COMMUNICATES THROUGH WRITING (IN LATIN CAPITAL LETTERS) ON A WAX TABLET
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The Roman Mysteries / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
The Roman Mysteries / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: Caudex is a large, strong slave who often acts as a bodyguard for the main characters.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
The Roman Mysteries / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Several adult character do this.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_531bf681	type	BookWorm
The Roman Mysteries / int_531bf681	comment	Book Worm: Flavia is a big fan of reading. In the first book, she wanted a copy of Pliny's Natural History as her birthday present.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_5320ff11	type	This Is My Name on Foreign
The Roman Mysteries / int_5320ff11	comment	This Is My Name on Foreign: Lupus's actual name is Lukos. However, both names simply mean "wolf." This does not follow the trope perfectly, because it is not an alias that Lupus picks for himself.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_539a54d	type	Ending Memorial Service
The Roman Mysteries / int_539a54d	comment	Ending Memorial Service: The funeral for Miriam at the end of ''The Slave-girl of Jerusalem.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_5466745d	type	Clear Their Name
The Roman Mysteries / int_5466745d	comment	Clear Their Name: The Slave-girl from Jerusalem involves clearing the name of a slave-girl falsely accused or murder.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_56434ecd	type	Music for Courage
The Roman Mysteries / int_56434ecd	comment	Music for Courage: The Four Detectives play music for refugees in The Pirates of Pompeii.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Roman Mysteries / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Well, not completely useless, but the only thing they seem to be useful for are locking up the criminals that Flavia and friends have identified. Of course, historic Rome did not have anything approaching modern police forces and professional, scientific criminal investigation techniques, so this is probably not far from the truth.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
The Roman Mysteries / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Publius Pollus Felix, as revealed in The Sirens of Surrentum, not only has sex with pretty much all his slavegirls (normal for Romans), but also with many of the free-born girls in the neighborhood, which was considered much less acceptable and is depicted as being predatory in nature.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
The Roman Mysteries / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Lupus looses his temper easily, especially when people ask him about his past or mention his missing tongue.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Roman Mysteries / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Jonathan plans to be executed for killing Titus in the place of his father, (who he thinks is the real murderer.) However Flavia works out Jonathan is lying and clears his name. Miriam refuses to let her father save her during childbirth and insists he save her children instead.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_64a5e4f	type	Black Vikings
The Roman Mysteries / int_64a5e4f	comment	Black Vikings: Averted in the books, which contain a realistic depictions of the racial and cultural mix of the Roman Empire. However, in the TV adaptation, there are two examples of black Roman patricians.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
The Roman Mysteries / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: This is actually explicitly stated in the books, which is justified because it takes place during a time period when doctors still believed in the four humors.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_67d0342c	type	Breaking the Fellowship
The Roman Mysteries / int_67d0342c	comment	Breaking the Fellowship: This happens in The Scribes from Alexandria, when the main characters are split up by a shipwreck.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_693cabaf	type	Gladiator Games
The Roman Mysteries / int_693cabaf	comment	Gladiator Games: Gladiator games form the central theme of The Gladiators from Capua. Jonathan becomes a gladiator. Also a form of Blood Sport.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Roman Mysteries / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: A number of characters have names whose meanings in Latin or Greek reflect their characteristics. Just a few are listed here. Lupus, the name of the wild character, means wolf. This is also a partial example of Animal Theme Naming although it does not fit that trope perfectly because Lupus is the only one with an animal name. Felix is a very fortunate (both rich and lucky) man, as one might expect from the meaning of his name. Marcus Geminus and Gaius Geminus are twin brothers Flavia is a fair haired girl.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_76f0d7a5	type	Historical Fiction
The Roman Mysteries / int_76f0d7a5	comment	Historical Fiction
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The Roman Mysteries / int_78255ad7	type	Passing the Torch
The Roman Mysteries / int_78255ad7	comment	Passing the Torch: Lupus and Threptus. Threptus will become the main character of a spin-off series.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_78bf3e7e	type	Practice Kiss
The Roman Mysteries / int_78bf3e7e	comment	Practice Kiss: Flavia has a Practice Kiss with Jonathan.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_7986a111	type	Bonding over Missing Parents
The Roman Mysteries / int_7986a111	comment	Bonding Over Missing Parents: There is a scene where the four children discuss their Missing Moms and are reduced to tears.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Roman Mysteries / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Common practice during the time period in which the books are set, the marriage of Jonathan's parents is explicitly stated to have been arranged and many of the other marriages depicted were probably also arranged. Although inverting the usual trope it's Mordecai - who enforced the arranged marriage - who comes off sympathetically rather than Suzannah. This custom causes conflict between Flavia and her father when her father wants to arrange a betrothal for her.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
The Roman Mysteries / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Both the series title and many of the individual story titles
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The Roman Mysteries / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
The Roman Mysteries / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: Nubia starts the series as a slave. Many other children are also kidnapped and enslaved, forming the basis of the plots for The Pirates of Pompeii and The Colossus of Rhodes. The Four Detectives are briefly captured in The Pirates of Pompeii and are going to be sold as slaves. Jonathan is also briefly enslaved in The Assassins of Rome and at the end of The Enemies of Jupiter he uses the brand mark to pose as a slave. Three of the Four Detectives are captured yet again in The Colossus of Rhodes..
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The Roman Mysteries / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
The Roman Mysteries / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: The characters are often in situations where there is little adult supervision, especially toward the end of the series. However, this is not constant throughout the series, as there there are many situations where they do their detective work with adult supervision and help.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_85debad9	type	Plucky Girl
The Roman Mysteries / int_85debad9	comment	Plucky Girl: Flavia
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The Roman Mysteries / int_865e9e58	type	Romance Arc
The Roman Mysteries / int_865e9e58	comment	Romance Arc: Flavia and Nubia both go through a Romance Arc that eventually leads to both of them being married in the last chapter. Romantic False Lead Romantic Runner-Up
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The Roman Mysteries / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
The Roman Mysteries / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead: Jonathan takes this on when he becomes a gladiator and adopts a new name.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_8c80a69f	type	YourCheatingHeart
The Roman Mysteries / int_8c80a69f	comment	Your Cheating Heart: A surprising number of examples for a book with a target audience of 8-to-12-year-old children. Felix in The Sirens of Surrentum is revealed to be a serial philanderer. Also, it is revealed that the mother of one of the main characters ran off with the man she had wanted to marry but could not because of an Arranged Marriage.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_8efbd9d2	type	Meaningful Funeral
The Roman Mysteries / int_8efbd9d2	comment	Meaningful Funeral: Happens in The Gladiators from Capua and The Slave-girl from Jerusalem.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_92a61707	type	The Speechless
The Roman Mysteries / int_92a61707	comment	The Speechless: Lupus is upable to speak because his tongue has been cut out.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_935212c	type	Feminine Women Can Cook
The Roman Mysteries / int_935212c	comment	Feminine Women Can Cook: Alma and Miriam are the best cooks and play the most traditionally feminine roles in the story, especially by 1st Century Roman standards. Flavia, on the other hand, is hardly ever depicted cooking, partly because she is a Tomboy and partly because Alma does all the cooking for her family.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_959a9947	type	Phone-In Detective
The Roman Mysteries / int_959a9947	comment	Phone-In Detective: Though obviously there are no phones involved, Flavia does this a few times, most notably in The Legionary from Londinium in which she deduces the location of a treasure hoard from another country. In her introduction Caroline Lawrence calls this trope "an armchair mystery."
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The Roman Mysteries / int_962e6260	type	You Are Grounded!
The Roman Mysteries / int_962e6260	comment	You Are Grounded: This happens to Flavia in Twelve Tasks of Flavia.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_96c812a4	type	Pair the Smart Ones
The Roman Mysteries / int_96c812a4	comment	Pair the Smart Ones: Lawyer Flaccus and 'detectrix' Flavia. In fact what makes him kiss her for the first time? Her figuring out the clue to win his court case!
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The Roman Mysteries / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Roman Mysteries / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Some of the books have villains and others do not, however the villain whose kidnapping ring forms one of the recurring plot lines of the series is referred to by the characters is "The Big Buyer". After the "Big Buyer" is captured, it is revealed that there is a "Bigger Buyer" who is in fact ultimately in charge of the slave ring.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_98ff7254	type	Long-Haired Pretty Boy
The Roman Mysteries / int_98ff7254	comment	Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Several slave boys are described this way.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
The Roman Mysteries / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land: Nubia in The Scribes of Alexandria gets as far as the borders of her own country, but realizes that she no longer fits into her own country.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
The Roman Mysteries / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Aristo, the children's tutor gets one in The Fugitive from Corinth including delving into his Back Story. Miriam gets a turn in The Slavegirl from Jerusalem especially as it ends with her death.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_9df1477	type	The Exotic Detective
The Roman Mysteries / int_9df1477	comment	The Exotic Detective: Flavia is exotic in that she is a Kid Detective and an ancient Roman.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_a00f2ac9	type	First Kiss
The Roman Mysteries / int_a00f2ac9	comment	First Kiss: Flavia's first kiss is depicted in The Sirens of Surrentum.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_a2e887be	type	Secondary Character Title
The Roman Mysteries / int_a2e887be	comment	Secondary Character Title: Most of the book titles, when they refer to a character, refer to a secondary character or groups of characters that are pivotal to the plot but are not one of the series's four main characters.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_a435b45e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Roman Mysteries / int_a435b45e	comment	Bitter Sweet Ending: The Slave-girl from Jerusalem and The Man from Pomegranate Street. Specifically, the four detectives are exiled from their homeland and Jonathan's nephew is still missing three years later. This may be cleared up in future spin-offs.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
The Roman Mysteries / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: Played with. The series shows both the brutal and the relatively benign sides of Roman slavery, however even slaves that treated kindly and like their masters wish to be set free.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_a5adbbe7	type	Unreliable Expositor
The Roman Mysteries / int_a5adbbe7	comment	Unreliable Expositor: A number of characters state scientific, medical or geographic facts that are now known to be inaccurate, but do correspond to what educated people in the 1st century AD Rome actually believed.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_a6f24e94	type	MatzoFever
The Roman Mysteries / int_a6f24e94	comment	Matzo Fever: Miriam, to every man she meets that's not related to her.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
The Roman Mysteries / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: In The Scribes of Alexandria a girl disguises herself as a eunuch in other to study as in the Library of Alexandria. This leads to a Sweet on Polly Oliver situation with a male scribe. In The Fugitive from Corinth another girl disguises herself as a beggar boy. Flavia and Nubia both disguise themselves as boy at times.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Roman Mysteries / int_a8f905e3	comment	While Rome Burns: Inverted in a big way. Rome literally burns in The Enemies of Jupiter, but the main characters are certainly not fiddling while it happened.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Roman Mysteries / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: All the characters freak out over free Romans being kidnapped and enslaved, but most of them give little thought to the enslavement of non-Romans or those born to slavery. Notable exceptions are Nubia, who was herself a slave, and Dr. Mordecai, who is against all slavery. This is not an example of dissonance on the part of the author, but an accurate portrayal of the values of the time period. Likewise, it accurately presents Roman marriage customs and Roman views on Blood Sports and execution as entertainment.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Roman Mysteries / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: All the four main characters have one that causes various problems throughout the series. Flavia is bossy and judgmental, Jonathan blames himself for everything and is pessimistic, Nubia is too naive and trusting and Lupus is hot-tempered and impulsive.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_abc60c5d	type	Harmful to Minors
The Roman Mysteries / int_abc60c5d	comment	Harmful to Minors: Children are exposed to harmful situations and are even harmed throughout the series. Listed are just a few of the more notable examples. In The Gladiators from Capua, children, to include very young children are part of the audience at the Colosseum Flavian Amphitheater. Also, one of the main characters becomes a gladiator and another character is exposed to wild animals that kill several other children before she is saved. The events behind Lupus's Dark and Troubled Past and Nubia's Dark and Troubled Past. The fate of the children that are kidnapped and enslaved.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
The Roman Mysteries / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The X of Y; usually, but not always, "The <person> of <place>".
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The Roman Mysteries / int_ad94c7a0	type	Scars are Forever
The Roman Mysteries / int_ad94c7a0	comment	Scars Are Forever: Lupus's missing tongue.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
The Roman Mysteries / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: Nubia does this at end at the end of The Scribes of Alexandria, when she chooses to return to Italia rather than go back to her home country of Nubia.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The Roman Mysteries / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Jonathan has prophetic dreams in several of the books. Flavia has a prophetic dream that forms the basis of The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina. A prophetic dream also plays a major role in The Enemies of Jupiter.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_b61afd3f	type	Tomboy
The Roman Mysteries / int_b61afd3f	comment	Tom Boy: Flavia, and to a greater degree Diana, are mild tomboys by modern standards but are most especially tomboys by Roman standards. Tomboy and Girly Girl: Flavia and Miriam are an amicable version while Flavia and Pulchra are more antagonistic. Nubia falls somewhere in the middle of the spectrum.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_b6ec7566	type	Twofer Token Minority
The Roman Mysteries / int_b6ec7566	comment	Twofer Token Minority: Jonathan in his family is Jewish and Christian. Of course, being a Christian may not seem to be a minority thing to most modern Western readers, but they are minorities in pagan Rome.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
The Roman Mysteries / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Variations on the theme take place in some of the books. Caroline Lawrence seems particularly fond of depicting situations where more than one man is in love with the same woman and she must choose which suitor to marry.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_b7e74b77	type	Five-Token Band
The Roman Mysteries / int_b7e74b77	comment	Four Token Band: By Roman standards the four main True Companions qualify - Flavia is a Roman citizen, Jonathan is a Christian of Jewish descent, Lupus is Greek and Nubia is an African slave.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_b8ba9b1f	type	Crossing the Desert
The Roman Mysteries / int_b8ba9b1f	comment	Crossing the Desert: The Beggar of Volubilis
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The Roman Mysteries / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
The Roman Mysteries / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Nubia has the opportunity to free one gladiator from slavery. She has to choose between her brother and her friend Jonathan. Lupus has to decide between saving his friends and stopping his mother from being sacrificed. He saves his friends and although the sacrifice doesn't actually take his mother's life, it means he can never see her again.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_bb660963	type	Color-Coded Characters
The Roman Mysteries / int_bb660963	comment	Color-Coded Characters: The four main character's clothing: Flavia almost always wear blue, Nubia wears yellow, Lupus green and Jonathan wears cream earlier on and brown as the series continues. This extends to secondary characters as Aristo wears red, Miriam purple and Pulchra pink.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
The Roman Mysteries / int_bd9beaf4	comment	Unexpected Inheritance: Lupus is the heir to Venalicus when he dies, and gets the slave ship Vespa. The ship is turned into the Delphina and is used to replace the ship that Marcus Flavius lost in tsunami.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_be30e493	type	Undignified Death
The Roman Mysteries / int_be30e493	comment	Undignified Death: In one of the short stories, a body is found with its head immersed in a public piss pot.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Roman Mysteries / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Flavia's parents before her mother died in childbirth. Gaius and Miriam before she dies in childbirth. Seeing a pattern? By the end of the series Aristo and Nubia count, and it's strongly implied Flavia and Flaccus will be too. Mordecai portrayed his marriage as this but it's later revealed Suzannah was in love with another man and all she'll admit to Jonathan is that she wasn't unhappy.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
The Roman Mysteries / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within A Book: The The Beggar of Volubilis depicts a traveling troupe of actors who end up putting on a play with the Four Detectives. They perform pantomime of the Roman variety, related to but not quite identicle to pantomime of the modern British variety.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Roman Mysteries / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The four main characters Flavia, Jonathan, Nubia and Lupus, who acknowledge they have a bond closer than friends or family. The circle often extends to include Aristo, Marcus, Mordecai, Miriam, Gaius, occasionally Caudex and Alma, and later on Flaccus.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_c39846a3	type	Pride
The Roman Mysteries / int_c39846a3	comment	Pride: Pride of the hubris variety is one of the explicit themes of The Enemies of Jupiter.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Roman Mysteries / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A number of them, including: "He will live long and prosper." "A funny thing happened on the way to the forum."
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The Roman Mysteries / int_c772e7c5	type	Rags to Riches
The Roman Mysteries / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: Lupus goes from being a begger boy to owning his own ship.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_ca326e1e	type	Chekhov's Volcano
The Roman Mysteries / int_ca326e1e	comment	Chekhov's Volcano: The Secrets of Vesuvius has the characters going to the area near Pompeii, just in time for the now famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_cbbf302c	type	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends
The Roman Mysteries / int_cbbf302c	comment	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: Part of the plot of The Man from Pomegranate Street. Played straight with secondary characters as virtually all of them - Marcus, Aristo, Diana and Pulchra - are married by the epilogue. Averted with the main four characters as neither Lupus or Jonathan are paired by the end of the book, Lupus because he's only twelve years old while Jonathan is implied to remain a wanderer all his life.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
The Roman Mysteries / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Several minor characters in early books such as Pliny the Elder, Simeon Jonathan's uncle and Flavia's future step-mother. In later books more significant characters Miriam and Uncle Gaius are also killed off.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_ce1d78bc	type	Foreign Queasine
The Roman Mysteries / int_ce1d78bc	comment	Foreign Queasine: Stuffed dormice and other exotic period food.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_cf231d54	type	Cool Teacher
The Roman Mysteries / int_cf231d54	comment	Cool Teacher: Aristo
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The Roman Mysteries / int_d104235d	type	Fair-Play Whodunnit
The Roman Mysteries / int_d104235d	comment	Fair-Play Whodunnit: Most of the stories
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The Roman Mysteries / int_d2771f82	type	World of No Grandparents
The Roman Mysteries / int_d2771f82	comment	World of No Grandparents: None of the main characters have grandparents take any major role in the story. Most of the grandparents are dead. Given the low life expectancy of this time period, this is highly realistic.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
The Roman Mysteries / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: Flavia's mother, in Flavia's backstory, and Miriam at the end of The Slave-girl from Jerusalem both die giving birth to twins.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_d3b0ad08	type	HurtingHero
The Roman Mysteries / int_d3b0ad08	comment	Hurting Hero: Lupus is the main example at the beginning of the series. Jonathan also becomes one.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_d3e3e878	type	Love at First Note
The Roman Mysteries / int_d3e3e878	comment	Love at First Note: Mordecai fell in love with Jonathan's mother when he heard her laugh.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_d67aae8f	type	It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
The Roman Mysteries / int_d67aae8f	comment	It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The opening of the short story "'The Five Barley Grains" in The Legionary from Londinium & Other Mini Mysteries starts out this way. Caroline Lawrence said that like Snoopy, she always wanted to start a story with that stock phrase.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_d6d26e96	type	Just a Kid
The Roman Mysteries / int_d6d26e96	comment	Just a Kid: This is played straight throughout the series. Sometimes the four detectives exploit this to their advantage. Sometimes it is an obstacle that they have to overcome.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_d6de6609	type	In Harmony with Nature
The Roman Mysteries / int_d6de6609	comment	In Harmony with Nature: Nubia has a strong connection with animals that is almost magical.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_d8a81f59	type	Starts with Their Funeral
The Roman Mysteries / int_d8a81f59	comment	Starts with Their Funeral: The Gladiators of Capua starts with a memorial service for Jonathan.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_d97a0c38	type	MysteryArc
The Roman Mysteries / int_d97a0c38	comment	Mystery Arc: Most of the stories
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The Roman Mysteries / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
The Roman Mysteries / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: The four detectives and their families can't stay in Ostia at the end, because they are exiled.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_da75a16f	type	Monumental Battle
The Roman Mysteries / int_da75a16f	comment	Monumental Battle: Lupus gets into a fight onto of the remnants of the Collosus, in a deliberate Shout-Out to North by Northwest.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Roman Mysteries / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: Jonathan is blamed for the burning of Rome, causing him to become a Condemned Contestant.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_dcb40127	type	The Killer Was Left-Handed
The Roman Mysteries / int_dcb40127	comment	The Killer Was Left-Handed: The Slave-girl from Jerusalem
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The Roman Mysteries / int_dda13ce4	type	Chariot Race
The Roman Mysteries / int_dda13ce4	comment	Chariot Race: Chariot races forms the center of the plot in The Charioteer of Delphi.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_e0828de1	type	Deathbringer the Adorable
The Roman Mysteries / int_e0828de1	comment	Deathbringer the Adorable: The rabbit in The Gladiators from Capua has a name that indicates it is a ferocious beast, but it is really just a harmless bunny.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_e116fedc	type	Play-Along Prisoner
The Roman Mysteries / int_e116fedc	comment	Play-Along Prisoner: When Jonathan has been Chained to a Rock (actually he was tied to a cross) in order to be Fed To The Beasts, the person that ties him up makes the ropes too loose so that he can escape at the right moment. When the beast that is supposed to eat him shows up, it turns out to be a harmless lion that Jonathan already knows. He then Slips The Ropes and climbs onto the lion, riding it out of the arena. Those trying to execute him see this as a sign from the gods that he should be spared.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
The Roman Mysteries / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Most of the characters are really speaking Latin or Greek, however it is normally depicted in English. When the author intends for a line of dialogue to not be understood by the main characters or the audience, she will say that a certain character said something in a given language rather than reproduce the words the character says.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
The Roman Mysteries / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things: Nubia interacts well with animals and seems to has an empathy with them that sometimes borders on the supernatural.
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The Roman Mysteries / int_e3048d1b	type	Amateur Sleuth
The Roman Mysteries / int_e3048d1b	comment	Amateur Sleuth: Flavia and friends
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