Technology: Vigilance Trigger

"There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down"

The presence of Medusa (a pagan myth) and Virgil (the author of a pagan poem, The Aeneid) in a Christian cosmos

There are historical records mixed with supernatural elements that make me think of this as fiction but also potentially a historian’s best effort to reconstruct the past