Historical accuracy?
This entry was posted on 12/17/2007 12:22 PM and is filed under On Books.
Late last night, while I came down from a holiday retail high (or hell, depending on how you look at it) I finished reading a novella set in Ancient Rome. The descriptions of clothing, homes, food etc rang true to me. The hero didn't scream crazy anachronism bells either, though I think that's more from reading too many Ancient Rome-set mysteries rather than the reality of the period. But the heroine, not so much.
Most of my problem was in one scene, but the scene was early on. So my question is, when you can't say for sure something is innapropriate for a period, do you want to wall-bang, or do you want to do enough research to see for yourself whether something is possible? Just curious. Sometimes with historicals it is screamingly obvious that no one would have behaved like that, but sometimes we aren't so sure!
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