{"id":103171,"date":"2026-10-18T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103171"},"modified":"2026-10-18T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T14:24:07","slug":"coriolanus-and-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/coriolanus-and-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Coriolanus<\/em> and Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4E0hOUBf_Kw?si=7I4dHeuxyWlgv14l\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 19 Jun 2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Coriolanus<\/em> is on a core level a story about loyalties, the personal and the tribe. It&#8217;s a rich field for science fiction, and this story hinges on a delicate balance of loyalties that can change drastically in different sci-fi settings.<\/p>\n<p>The original edit of this relied heavily on the 2011 film, but for copyright reasons I&#8217;m using different performances as examples here. Apologies for any edits that seem a tad off.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n03:00 The Tribunes<br \/>\n04:50 A World Elsewhere<br \/>\n07:25 Martius and Aufidius<br \/>\n12:39 Loyalties <\/p>\n<p><strong>Corrections<\/strong>: 13:07 I know, I&#8217;m technically using &#8220;geopolitical&#8221; incorrectly.<\/p>\n<p>It also occurs to me that there is a bit of a <em>Coriolanus<\/em> influence on my book (shameless plug incoming) <em>Stellar Drift<\/em>, available now. amazon.com\/dp\/B0GTVXK4CN<\/p>\n<p>And of course book 1 in the series, <em>Ninti&#8217;s Gate<\/em> as well. amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 and Merch! | feral-shop.fourthwall.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 19 Jun 2026 Coriolanus is on a core level a story about loyalties, the personal and the tribe. It&#8217;s a rich field for science fiction, and this story hinges on a delicate balance of loyalties that can change drastically in different sci-fi settings. The original edit of this relied heavily on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[1593,1345,85,532],"class_list":["post-103171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","tag-feralhistorian","tag-romanrepublic","tag-sf","tag-shakespeare"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qQ3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105378,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103171\/revisions\/105378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}