Eager for Glory: The Untold Story of Drusus The Elder, Conqueror of Germania by Lindsay Powell

Author:Lindsay Powell [Powell, Lindsay]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781848849044
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2012-10-17T00:00:00+00:00

The procession on both sides of the external north and south walls flanking the entrance forms a single line seen from opposite sides, as the participants move towards the steps at the front of the altar. The figures are lifesize and appear to be the individual likenesses of the participants. Augustus is shown as Pontifex Maximus among the group at the front of the line. Further down stands M. Vipsanius Agrippa clutching a scroll in his right hand. His head is covered respectfully with his toga, perhaps recognising the fact of his death, which occurred during the carving of the frieze. Behind him is Livia Drusilla and her hand rests upon the head of a young girl.15 Following her is the figure of Tiberius looking serious and wearing a toga and ankle-length closed boots of a high status Roman. Behind him, a woman pauses to listen to a man who is talking to her (plate 31). He is slightly taller than the woman. The man is seen in profile and is not dressed like the other men in the procession. He wears the paludamentum, the military cloak over his left shoulder, and caligae, the sturdy boots worn by soldiers upon his feet. This is surely Nero Claudius Drusus, the commander of the Rhine army? Drusus appears to be speaking, while a boy clutches the edge of his cloak and chats with another older boy by his side. As he talks Antonia listens while holding the hand of a very young, well-behaved boy – presumably her oldest son, Nero – who wears child size national Roman costume.16 It is a surprisingly intimate moment for such a public monument, a snapshot in a virtual photo album of members of the imperial family in peaceful celebration of a religious rite on the First Lady’s birthday, preserved for the ages in marble.

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