But did they have all their teeth and oracular powers?

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I mean, I have all my teeth, seducing an emperor should be a snap.

Don't be so sure. You've got some pretty severe competition. For example, Procopius, in his bitter Secret History, claims of Theodora (consort to Emperor Justinian) that in her days as a dancing girl/prostitute (before capturing Justinian's heart) she

"Often, even in the theater, in the sight of all the people, she removed her costume and stood nude in their midst, except for a girdle about the groin: not that she was abashed at revealing that, too, to the audience, but because there was a law against appearing altogether naked on the stage, without at least this much of a fig-leaf. Covered thus with a ribbon, she would sink down to the stage floor and recline on her back. Slaves to whom the duty was entrusted would then scatter grains of barley from above into the calyx of this passion flower, whence geese, trained for the purpose, would next pick the grains one by one with their bills and eat. When she rose, it was not with a blush, but she seemed rather to glory in the performance. For she was not only impudent herself, but endeavored to make everybody else as audacious. Often when she was alone with other actors, she would undress in their midst and arch her back provocatively, advertising like a peacock both to those who had experience of her and to those who had not yet had that privilege her trained suppleness."

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I mean, I have all my teeth, seducing an emperor should be a snap.

Plenty of pretty young things will too. Some of them may even be patrician by birth.

(If Puppeteer Empress-Consort is a win condition I can cooperate with someone else who is also thrown back.)

Just teach us all to polyhack and we can all win.