01-27-2009, 08:12 PM
I hope someone can answer my question, as I have actually written several inquiries to the producers of HBO Rome series, and have to date received no answer. In watching an episode in Season two, where Pullo assassinates Cicero, and the Vorenii are having a picnic in the forest, Lyde mentions to Vorenus that Vorena the Elder, now rescued from indentured prostitution can never have children, but could marry, if she wanted. I've looked at the history of sterilization, hysterectomies etc etc, but have found no information on this. Was it a physical inability to now have children? Stemming from what? Just from the prostitution itself (never heard of that)? Did they render her in some way so that she could never have children, and if so, what possible method could they have used that would not kill her? Or was it a cultural prohibition? Some history books talk about the fact that prostitutes used herbs and alakloids to induce abortions, and some brothels sacrificed babies to gods, but why on earth would Vorena be PHYSICALLY incapable of having children?
