Thursday, 23 October 2008

Lorenzo Lotto Portrait of a Gentleman painting

Lorenzo Lotto Portrait of a Gentleman paintingTitian Emperor Charles paintingTheodore Chasseriau The Tepidarium painting
becoming insecure. She thought that this would be some protection to her if he fell from power: Tiberius could hardly have her executed while she was with child of his nephew. I welcomed my divorce from Elia, but would not have robbed her of the child if my mother had not insisted on it: my mother wanted Antonia for herself as something to mother of her very own-grandmother-hunger, as it is called.
The only member of Sejanus's family who escaped was his brother, and he escaped for the strange reason that he had publicly made fun of Tibenus's baldness. At the last annual festival in honour of Flora, at which he happened to be presiding, he employed only bald-headed men to perform the ceremonies, which were prolonged to the evening, and the spectators were lighted out of the theatre by five thousand children with torches in their hands and their heads shaved. Tiberius was informed of this in Nerva's presence by a visiting senator and just to create a good impression on Nerva he

No comments: