Steve Hanks Holding the Family Together painting

Steve Hanks Holding the Family Together paintingClaude Monet Woman In A Green Dress paintingClaude Monet Vase Of Flowers painting
saying he had been exceedingly busy and would at all events come to Rome for the funeral. Meanwhile the Senate had decreed various extraordinary honours in her memory, including the title Mother of the Country, and had even proposed to make her a demi-goddess. But Tiberius reversed nearly all of these decrees, explaining in a letter that Livia was a singularly modest woman, averse to all public recognition of her services, and with a peculiar sentiment against having any religious worship paid to her after death. The letter ended with reflections on the unsuitability of women's meddling in "for which they are not fitted, and which rouse in them all those worst feelings of arrogance and petulance to which the female, sex is naturally prone".
He did not of course come to the City for the funeral though, solely with the object of limiting its magnificence, he made all arrangements for it. And he took so long over them that the corpse, old and withered as it was, had reached an advanced stage of putrefaction before it was p' *• on the pyre. To the general surprise, Caligula spoke the funeral oration, which Tiberius himself