Roman Mysteries: differences between books and TV adaptation?

bash_bob

The Roman Mysteries book series by Caroline Lawrence, published between 2001 and 2009, is a sort of ancient-history version of Enid Blyton, featuring four children who act as detectives solving mysteries together, while also teaching the readers about life in ancient Rome (Greece, Egypt, etc.). It was adapted into a TV series in 2007, with a second season running in 2008. How different is the TV adaptation from the original books? The TV series...

Originally asked by Rand al'Thor on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I'm posting an answer myself since nobody else has done so after a month. More answers will still be appreciated. The Wikipedia page for the TV series has a list of differences from the books: The children are older. Lupus is mute but his tongue has not been cut out. Because The Thieves of Ostia was not adapted, the meeting of the children takes place at a different time (just before the eruption of Vesuvius) and under different circumstances. In the book of "The Assassins of Rome", Simeon is dragged off to be tortured but gets rescued (by Titus) before he is maimed or blinded as was threatened. In the movie he doesn't get rescued. Although it was improbable for him ever to have been...

Full answer by Rand al'Thor: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/53281 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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