sixthlight

There's often an issue with this sort of time-travel fiction, I think, where a large segment of its likely audience is very well-informed about the period but its protagonists aren't because the author wants maximum opportunity to have them Learn New Things. Which then frustrates the informed readers, because it makes the protagonists come across as exaggeratedly under-informed. This was certainly the case with this book, where the lead fully expected that the Roman Empire would be much less sexist than 1990s LA, for no obvious reason.