The Wedding Gift

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It is the year 110AD a peaceful period in Rome under the Emperor Trajan. Albanus the last in the line of an aristocratic Roman family would be relatively content </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>with his lot as a single low-paid clerk to an unsuccessful lawyer but for the fact that the family home is in serious need of renovation. His only recourse it would </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>seem is to marry a girl with a large dowry. But when his mother finds out that the girl in question comes from a family with a dubious reputation she is not slow </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>in showing her disapproval. Unable to prevent the marriage she buys the couple a wedding gift - a handsome young Greek slave boy. But is there another agenda </strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>behind this generous gift? </strong></p>