Chapter 5 - In the Temple of Artemis (1/2)

The capital Emerita Augusta of Lusitania is a city under construction which was founded in the year 25 BC (The current time of the protagonist is 21 BC, Flavio was born on 26 BC), by order of the Emperor Augustus as a gift to his daughter and grandson (The reasons for the foundation were changed by the influence of the god Apollo).

You can observe a large number of slaves moving building materials, citizens and merchants doing their daily activities, it is also possible to see auxiliaries taking care of the internal safety of the new city, while the outer security was guaranteed by the Spanish Legion IX by order of the emperor until the outer wall of the city is built.

The governor's palace located north of the city was originally a walled mansion belonging to the former governor, after the designation from the August Emperor of Vitelio as the new governor the mansion became his property, from the location of the mansion he founded the city in the southern direction.

Leaving the walls of the mansion and entering the city, you can see a procession of cavalry surrounding and protecting a woman and a small child riding a Jet dark horse.

Flavio felt uncomfortable riding the horse with his mother ”Mother, why do we have to go out on a horse and not in a carriage?”

Julia looked at her young son with firm eyes ”Because of our status of my son. You must know that being the grandson of the Emperor implies that you have to show poise, the carriage does not contribute to that, that is why we have to leave on horseback ”.

Flavio could only curse in his mind, and ignore the pain of his ass that was caused due to riding on the horse.

”By the way mother why doesn't the cavalry have any stirrups?”

Julia looked at her son again but this time with curiosity ”Stirrups? What is that? ”

Flavio put his hand on his forehead

”Nothing mother, you'll have to wait for me to talk to the blacksmith when we reach the farm so that I can show you the advantages of using a stirrup”

While mother and son were having a pleasant conversation, they have reached Decumano street.

In all Roman cities, there is always a street with an east-west orientation, this street is also always called Decumano, it is also the street where the shops of the city are located.

Flavio was surprised to see a lot of people moved into shops and were buying and selling all kinds of products, although the scale was not comparable to the Madero Street in the city of Mexico that he remembered in the future.

But being a city in antiquity can also have its merits, What drew his attention was not the number of people who were performing their daily activities, but it was the temple under construction of the goddess Artemis (Diana for the Romans).

Flavio pointed with his hand the temple ”Mother lets go to the temple I want to check something ”

Julia nodded to the order of her son and told the guard ”Aurelio before going to the field we need to go to the temple of Diana”, Aurelio gave the order to move to the temple.

Flavio was taken down from the beautiful dark horse by Aurelio and walked towards the steps of the temple under construction as he headed towards the middle, where he could see a detailed marble statue of Artemis and at that moment the time froze.

He could see how the workers were stopped also observed how a small fly remained in the