{"id":5018,"date":"2025-09-23T09:17:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=5018"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:15:28","slug":"the-greatest-ludus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=5018","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Ludus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many years ago, I wrote a story inspired by the TV series <em>Spartacus<\/em>. I tried to write something that was in keeping with the spirit of the show. In other words, I wrote a violent, gory, and erotic story. As with my short stories, I don&#8217;t think I can seek to get this published via any mechanism, it isn&#8217;t remotely polished enough, and reflects my writing skills from roughly a decade ago. It is however a fun, passionate story that was also enjoyable to write. My usual territory is science fiction, not Ancient Rome, so I took myself well beyond my normal comfort zone to write this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This story is intended for adult eyes only! It is filled with scenes of sex, violence and bad language (I mean come on, check out the <em>Spartacus<\/em> TV show, that which inspired this, there are few shows as epically violent as that). If you are offended by any of this, do not read it! If same-sex relationships offend you, do not read it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=5021\">Chapter One<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=5026\">Chapter Two<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=5041\">Chapter Three<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=5049\">Chapter Four<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=5062\">Chapter Five<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=5068\">Chapter Six<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=5155\">Chapter Seven<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=6993\">Chapter Eight<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=6997\">Chapter Nine<\/a>, Chapter 10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 19, Chapter 20<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 21, Chapter 22, Chapter 23, Chapter 24, Chapter 25, Chapter 26, Chapter 27, Chapter 28, Chapter 29, Chapter 30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=4998\">Back to Meerkat Fiction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I wrote a story inspired by the TV series Spartacus. I tried to write something that was in keeping with the spirit of the show. In other words, I wrote a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5020,"parent":4998,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5018","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5018"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6999,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5018\/revisions\/6999"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}