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Politics No More
Argolicus was finished with Rome and its rumors, innuendos, and back-handed back stabbing. He was finished with politics.
At home and retired, he was enjoying the afternoon sun at his estate in Squillace in the far south of Italy. He gazed at the tranquil bay of the Ionian Sea beyond the harbor. Trade boats bobbed in the water waiting to carry oil, wine, cattle, or horses up either coast to Ravenna or Rome. A lone horseman cantered up the road from the bay. From the kitchen, he heard voices and murmurings as his mother held her daily counseling for the slaves. Perhaps someone was pregnant, or a grandfather’s hips hurt too much for him to walk. Close at hand Nikolaos was reading aloud from Herodotus expounding on the origin of Egyptian gods. Soon it would be Ar
