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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Falco's play "The Spook Who Spoke" in ''Last Act in Palmyra'' appears to be a blatant CallForward to ''Literature/Hamlet'', but according to Davis' foreword, a partial script for just such a play was found in Palmyra dating from the Roman period. It's even been suggested that [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]] took his inspiration for ''Hamlet'' from that fragment.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Falco's play "The Spook Who Spoke" in ''Last Act in Palmyra'' appears to be a blatant CallForward to ''Literature/Hamlet'', ''Hamlet'', but according to Davis' foreword, foreword to the novel, a partial script for just such a play was found in Palmyra dating from the Roman period. It's even been suggested that [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]] took his inspiration for ''Hamlet'' from that fragment.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Falco's play "The Spook Who Spoke" in ''Last Act in Palmyra'' appears to be a blatant CallForward to ''Literature/Hamlet'', but according to Davis' foreword, a partial script for just such a play was found in Palmyra dating from the Roman period. It's even been suggested that [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]] took his inspiration for ''Hamlet'' from that fragment.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment:GeniusBonus: Someone who's read ''The Twelve Caesars'' or the ''Literature/CambridgeLatinCourse'' will have a very good idea who killed [[spoiler:Sosia Camillina]] in ''The Silver Pigs'', the moment Falco says what the murder weapon was. [[spoiler: For those who haven't, Domitian reportedly liked to tear the wings off flies and stab them with his pen.]]
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* GeniusBonus: Someone who's read ''The Twelve Caesars'' or the ''Literature/CambridgeLatinCourse'' will have a very good idea who killed [[spoiler:Sosia Camillina]] in ''The Silver Pigs'', the moment Falco says what the murder weapon was. [[spoiler: For those who haven't, Domitian reportedly liked to tear the wings off flies and stab them with his pen.]]
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: ''The Course Of Honour'': Is Vespasian a well-meaning but clueless idiot who genuinely doesn't realise how much he's hurting Caenis by continually asking things of her that she wants to do but can't due to society's rules, or is he fully aware of what he's doing and trying to get her to realise that they ''can'' defy society's rules by just being honest with her?
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: ''The Course Of Honour'': Is Vespasian a well-meaning but clueless idiot who genuinely doesn't realise how much he's hurting Caenis by continually asking things of her that she wants to do but can't due to society's rules, or is he fully aware of what he's doing and trying to get her to realise that they ''can'' defy society's rules by just being honest with her?
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* WhatAnIdiot: Petro. He's a philanderer, and he decides to fuck [[spoiler: Balbina Milvia, a notorious gangster's daughter- to be precise, the daughter of the gangster Petro managed to put away. Of all the women in the world, he went for the one that ensured him a lifetime feud with anyone connected to her.]]
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* FridgeBrilliance: In ''Time to Depart'', after the death of [[spoiler: Nonnius]], Petro is alerted to the death by a team of vigiles who came for him because of the pot shoved on the body's head, their leader just happening to remember that particular pot on the list of stolen property from the Emporium raid. [[spoiler: It's a clue that he's one of the many vigiles in Balbinus' employ, who was indirectly sending Petro a message.]]
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* FridgeBrilliance: In ''Time to Depart'', after the death of [[spoiler: Nonnius]], Petro is alerted to the death by a team of vigiles who came for him because of the pot shoved on the body's head, their leader just happening ''just happening'' to remember that particular pot on the list of stolen property from the Emporium raid. [[spoiler: It's a clue that he's one of the many vigiles in Balbinus' employ, who was indirectly sending Petro a message.]]
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* FridgeLogic: In ''Ode To A Banker'', evidence of the murderer's guilt is found in their belongings sometime around a month after the murder was committed. Why didn't they take the opportunity to dispose of the items? Especially since some of it was bloodstained, which you'd think would smell.
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* FridgeLogic: In ''Ode To A Banker'', evidence of the murderer's guilt is found in their belongings sometime around a month after the murder was committed. Why didn't they take the opportunity to dispose of the items? items at some point in all that time? Especially since some of it was bloodstained, which you'd think would smell.
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* FridgeLogic: In ''Ode To A Banker'', evidence of the murderer's guilt is found in their belongings sometime around a month after the murder was committed. Why didn't they take the opportunity to dispose of the items? Especially since some of it was bloodstained, which you'd think would smell.
