Uruanna

Hollywood had a lot of influence back in 450 BCE.

Spartan wives famously grew very influential because they’d remarry when their warrior husband died in combat, and they’d keep inheriting land. Generations of Spartan widows put a handful of women in charge of much land, and by extension, of politics.

Virgil wrote the Aeneid just after the end of the Roman Republic though, under Augustus. Don’t know what the Republic proper thought about themselves on the subject. How well known was that myth before him?

After the introduction chapters, the story has been splitting each chapter with a past section and a modern section. The two are very different in mood, the modern part is more slice of life with a little mystery here and there, the bulk of the story is in the past part. I didn’t know this was getting an anime so I’m curious to see how they’ll get to that, worse case scenario is they don’t do the dark stuff at all and just make it SOL.

Japan has the expression “3 day supreme ruler” for this guy in 1582 who murdered the previous guy who was on the verge of unifying the country after centuries of civil war, claimed the sought-after title of Shogun (supreme military commander of the country), and got murdered himself after 13 days. In and out.