From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V9 #60 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Friday, December 17 2010 Volume 09 : Number 060 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] The real Livia [KLOSSNER9@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:54:21 -0500 (EST) From: KLOSSNER9@aol.com Subject: [chakram-refugees] The real Livia I am still convinced that the series' powers that be named Xena's Roman-raised daughter Livia and had her involved with Augustus (Octavian) because they knew that Augustus's wife was actually called Livia and that she was a major character in both the novel I, Claudius, by Robert Graves,and in the 1976 Masterpiece Theater miniseries of the same name. I think that the producers hoped that for a little while fans would think that young Livia was going to become Empress, before the series put her on a different course. Graves' novel and the miniseries, in which Livia was memorably played by Sian Phillips, both had it that Livia was a poisoner who routinely killed anyone who stood in her or her son Tiberius' way. Now a biography Livia, Empress of Rome, by Matthew Dennison, has been published by St. Martin's. A review in Library Journal (Dec.2010) says that Matthews acquits Livia of the murders that Graves accused her of, noting that she was often hundreds of miles away when the supposed victim died. Matthews believes that Livia was genuinely important behind the scenes. Boeotian ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V9 #60 *************************************