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Who's Who in Roma Amor
A Novel of Caligula's Rome
by Sherry Christie
The Carinnas
MARCUS LICINIUS CARINNA Former broad-stripe tribune of the Fifteenth Legion
TITUS LICINIUS CARINNA Senator of Rome, his father
Antonia TERENTIA Marcus’s mother
NINA Marcus’s twin sister, wife of a provincial governor
PUBLIUS Carinna Marcus’s older brother (a suicide three years earlier)
PHORMIO Marcus’s paedagogus (childhood tutor and companion), a slave
TURTLE, NICANDER, JASON, RUFUS, CLEON, OLLIUS, DIO, et al. Other household members
The Caesars
*Gaius CAESAR (CALIGULA) Third and current Princeps of Rome
*AGRIPPINILLA Oldest of his three younger sisters
*DRUSILLA His middle (and favorite) sister, wife of Lepidus
*LIVILLA Youngest of Caligula’s sisters, once betrothed to Publius Carinna
*GEMELLUS Their cousin, Tiberius’s grandson (now Caligula’s adopted son)
*CLAUDIUS Their uncle
*M. Aemilius LEPIDUS Drusilla’s husband, patron of Marcus’s family
Other relatives of Caligula and his sisters
*GERMANICUS Caesar Their father, possibly murdered by Tiberius
*AGRIPPINA Their mother, died in exile
*NERO Caesar and *DRUSUS Caesar Their older brothers, murdered by Tiberius
*TIBERIUS Caesar Their great-uncle, the second Princeps
*AUGUSTUS Caesar Their great-grandfather, the first Princeps
*LIVIA (“the Augusta”) Their great-grandmother, wife of Augustus
*ANTONIA Their grandmother (Marcus Carinna’s great-great-aunt)
Other notable Romans
SAXA Commander of the Praetorian Special Cohort (the imperial intelligence service)
*Gaius SILIUS Marcus Carinna’s boyhood friend, now a magistrate
Lucius PERTINAX Son of a wealthy merchant from the Province
VARRO GALERIANUS A praetor of the Treasury, adopted son of Nina’s husband
Germans
AURIMA A junior priestess of Austro, a hostage in Rome
MAELO Her uncle and protector in Rome
ODO Her cousin, Maelo’s adolescent son
INGIOMAR Ironhand Aurima’s father, war chieftain of the Marcomanni and a sworn enemy of Rome
AMMISIA of the Quadi Aurima’s mother, murdered five years earlier
*MARBODO Aurima’s late great-uncle, previous king of the Marcomanni
COTTO, SEGOMO, BODICO, RAMIS, et al. Members of Aurima’s retinue in Rome
*HARMAN Leader of the Great Rebellion against Rome, killed by his enemies
*THUSNELDA His widow
*HERIBERHTO His son (formerly known as Thumelicus), raised by Flavus
*FLAVUS Harman’s Romanized brother
*ITALICUS Harman’s nephew, Flavus’s son
* Historical figures
What's the story?
Passing his family tomb as he rides home from the Danube frontier, Marcus Carinna hears a voice whisper, “Your turn, little brother.” Some unseen presence has also unsettled the Germanic hostage Aurima, whom he is escorting to Rome. But hardheaded Romans scoff at ghosts, and Marcus can’t believe it’s a warning from his older brother, who killed himself three years earlier.
Learn about the young Roman Empire’s darkest secret in Sherry Christie’s Roma Amor: A Novel of Caligula’s Rome. Available in print, ebook, and audiobook formats.
