Ancient Rome
written by Sirius B. ❧
(Deimos, my best mate, asked for this. Rome has its stories and me and Rome go wasaay back. Read this to hear Deimos, Kärt, Courtney, and my adventures here in Rome.
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Ancient Rome
Chapter 2
Ancient Rome
Similar to ancient Greeks, the Romans were very deity-centered but they were less lenient about magic. So, following that, most magic still go unnoticed by muggles. One prominent practitioner of the magical art was Romulus, one of the two founders of Rome. He made love potions for the Roman men to procreate the future Roman race with the neighboring Sabine tribe women. To us, it might have seemed unacceptable to use love potions for such reasons, but in those times, potion masters were actually celebrated as heroes.
However, the wizarding reign did not last forever. By 451 B.C., magic was curtailed by Roman law. And it was once again further banned in 81 B.C., where love-spells and poisons were no long allowed to be in existent. Laws against magic escalated and culminated to banish Roman wizards and witches from the land.
Some have attempted to propose to the wizards that muggles needed to learn their place under magical blood. One such person would be senator Tiberius Gracchus. He was the first senatorial wizard to publically claim superiority over his non-fellow Roman citizens. Unfortunately, his own cousin, Scipio Nasica, for his views and beliefs, clubbed him to death.
On the map, you can see the Roman Empire at its peak. The red line demarcates the borders, starting from the west of the Caspian Sea to modern-day Spain. In the midst of this domination, magical beings of different cultures came together by learning the empire’s language, Latin, and used it to share information. This trade of ideas led to the first meeting of the Consilium Imperii Magi (CIM or the Council of the Empire’s Wizards), which met in Rome in 132 A.D.
Similar to ancient Greeks, the Romans were very deity-centered but they were less lenient about magic. So, following that, most magic still go unnoticed by muggles. One prominent practitioner of the magical art was Romulus, one of the two founders of Rome. He made love potions for the Roman men to procreate the future Roman race with the neighboring Sabine tribe women. To us, it might have seemed unacceptable to use love potions for such reasons, but in those times, potion masters were actually celebrated as heroes.
However, the wizarding reign did not last forever. By 451 B.C., magic was curtailed by Roman law. And it was once again further banned in 81 B.C., where love-spells and poisons were no long allowed to be in existent. Laws against magic escalated and culminated to banish Roman wizards and witches from the land.
Some have attempted to propose to the wizards that muggles needed to learn their place under magical blood. One such person would be senator Tiberius Gracchus. He was the first senatorial wizard to publically claim superiority over his non-fellow Roman citizens. Unfortunately, his own cousin, Scipio Nasica, for his views and beliefs, clubbed him to death.
On the map, you can see the Roman Empire at its peak. The red line demarcates the borders, starting from the west of the Caspian Sea to modern-day Spain. In the midst of this domination, magical beings of different cultures came together by learning the empire’s language, Latin, and used it to share information. This trade of ideas led to the first meeting of the Consilium Imperii Magi (CIM or the Council of the Empire’s Wizards), which met in Rome in 132 A.D.
