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Line 1: {{work}} * (Moved from the [[Death Byby Woman Scorned]] page): According to Roman custom at the time it was not only Vorenus' ''right'' to kill Niobe for her infidelity, but it was also what honor demanded (and Vorenus is constantly shown to put [[Honor Before Reason]]). He grabs a knife but doesn't seem like he will be able to actually kill her, so she flings herself off a balcony and takes her own life as a final act of love. The oddities begin when his children spend the rest of the show hating his guts for having killed their mother, even though they were raised in the culture which dictated that he ''should'' kill her, and Vorenus ''never sets them straight'' about the fact that he did in fact not kill her. Why doesn't he just tell them she killed herself? Suicide was not stigmatic back then the way it is now. Because he blames himself for driving her to it. Also, just because it was culturally sanctioned for a man to kill a cheating wife doesn't mean anybody involved would have been happy about it. He loved her; he didn't want her to have cheated on him ''or'' to kill her; and she had an excuse in that she'd thought he was dead when she slept with the other guy. As for the kids, they liked her much better than him -- she'd raised them, and then he came back from the war this gruff, unapproachable, temperamental stranger who turned the house into [[Dysfunction Junction]], despite (well, some of the time) his efforts to the contrary. It was [[Crapsack World\|not a pleasant situation for anyone]]. * All of that is true, however it still gets spun out beyond all reason. As I recall, Vorena doesn't begin to forgive Lucius until Titus Pullo tells her that her mother killed herself, in what I think was the ''last'' episode. It seems like [[Cannot Spit It Out]] for the sake of drama. After learning that, she forgives him amazingly quickly, of course. Line 22: [[Category:Rome]] [[Category:Headscratchers]] __NOTOC__