The settings

Murder in Ancient Rome is set, as the title suggests, in Ancient Rome, in approximately 120 A.D.

The Settings:

  • Act 1, Scene 1 :  Outside the Amphitheatre: the day before the Gladiatorial Games
  • Act 1, Scene 2 :  The Empress Hermesita Demerara’s Boudoir
  • Act 1, Scene 3: The Palace Gardens
  • Act 1, Scene 4: The Chamber of the Emperor Preposterus
  • Act 2: The Senate of Urticaria Major: the following day