"(And again, just wait until we get to Rhiannon's backstory. Her fighting tooth and nail against getting married looks MUCH worse.)"

Is it rape? It's always rape...

"All those Romans and their 'He who controls Rome controls the world,' blah, blah, lie down to eat, eat too much, go puke."

I actually think the whole puking thing is a myth. A vomitorium was the entrance of an amphitheatre. The name comes from the fact that it "vomits" people.