Bantymom

I found this site looking for information first on names for Roman women and then about famous Roman women, and then about how long did any of the most well-known lines continue. I needed to join to be able to continue to search. I'm nervous about posting anything because I fear I will look ignorant. Everyone here seems to know so much! I've been working on a Google Sketchup model of Herculaneum because I think it is so beautiful. I came across Herculaneum while researching Roman Villas. I do role-playing (as I don't have time to write seriously) with friends and my character needed a villa. But my newest character is a vampire who had been turned sometime during the existence of Rome. I can't really worry about doing it "right," because, well, vampires. But I don't want to do it wrong. I don't want to give her an incorrect name (she's survived to the present and can give herself any name she wants, but I mean her original name). Then I decided I wanted her to be someone who once actually existed, but not someone so well known that I would be obviously changing history. I want her to at least be possible. So that's why I finally joined, but now I don't know where to ask my question. I need to find a female descendant of someone important, yes, even someone close to an emperor or such. I need her not to have been executed (rather limits the choices it seems), or at least have her execution have been, perhaps, iffy. Some way that she might have been turned sometime in her 30s-50s. A vague execution could be construed as a cover up for her having gone missing, but a very public execution would make her being made into a vampire the way think of vampires being made (thanks to Stoker) impossible. Someone whose birth was recorded but whose death was not so important as to be a big deal. Someone who just died for an unknown reason would be best. So far, all I've found is Rubellia Bassa, the daughter of Julia Livia (AD 5–43) (a.k.a.) Julia Drusi Caesaris filia or her daughter, Octavia. Anyway, I'm just looking for the right place to post my question. If you point me in the right direction, I'll try to post more until my life as a school teacher makes me stop. I'm an INTP and I have a need for even my made-up characters to be as correct as possible, so I came here to you, the experts. Other interests: Roman Military Chickens (raise 4 breeds to show) Peacocks (have 9) History Education (Math, Science, Language Arts, Languages, Social Studies) Art Star Trek StarCraft Old-fashioned war games on hex maps Horses and Training of Horses Archeology