#scribonia

[behindfairytales]

DOMINA (2021- ) Season 2

[wolframpant]

Historical Female Characters in Domina (2021)

[blogdemocratesjr]

Contemplations (1870), Confidence (1862) & Antique Family Symposium by Joseph Coomans 

JULIA THE ELDER

By Scribonia he had a daughter Julia, by Livia no children at all, although he earnestly desired issue. One baby was conceived, but was prematurely born. He gave Julia in marriage first to Marcellus, son of his sister Octavia and hardly more than a boy, and then after his death to Marcus Agrippa, prevailing upon his sister to yield her son-in‐law to him; for at that time Agrippa had to wife one of the Marcellas and had children from her. When Agrippa also died, Augustus, after considering various alliances for a long time, even in the equestrian order, finally chose his stepson Tiberius, obliging him to divorce his wife, who was with child and by whom he was already a father. Marc Antony writes that Augustus first betrothed his daughter to his son Antonius and then to Cotiso, king of the Getae, at the same time asking for the hand of the king's daughter for himself in turn. ... From Agrippa and Julia he had three grandsons, Gaius, Lucius, and Agrippa, and two granddaughters, Julia and Agrippina. He married Julia to Lucius Paulus, the censor's son, and Agrippina to Germanicus his sister's grandson. Gaius and Lucius he adopted at home, privately buying them from their father by a symbolic sale, and initiated them into administrative life when they were still young, sending them to the provinces and the armies as consuls elect. In bringing up his daughter and his granddaughters he even had them taught spinning and weaving, and he forbade them to say or do anything except openly and such as might be recorded in the household diary. He was most strict in keeping them from meeting strangers, once writing to Lucius Vinicius, a young man of good position and character: "You have acted presumptuously in coming to Baiae to call on my daughter." ... But at the height of his happiness and his confidence in his family and its training, Fortune proved fickle. He found the two Julias, his daughter and granddaughter, guilty of every form of vice, and banished them. ... He bore the death of his kin with far more resignation than their misconduct. For he was not greatly broken by the fate of Gaius and Lucius, but he informed the senate of his daughter's fall through a letter read in his absence by a quaestor, and for very shame would meet no one for a long time, and even thought of putting her to death. At all events, when one of her confidantes, a freedwoman called Phoebe, hanged herself at about that same time, he said: "I would rather have been Phoebe's father." After Julia was banished, he denied her the use of wine and every form of luxury, and would not allow any man, bond or free, to come near her without his permission, and then not without being informed of his stature, complexion, and even of any marks or scars upon his body. It was not until five years later that he moved her from the island 80 to the mainland and treated her with somewhat less rigour. But he could not by any means be prevailed on to recall her altogether, and when the Roman people several times interceded for her and urgently pressed their suit, he in open assembly called upon the gods to curse them with like daughters and like wives. He would not allow the child born to his granddaughter Julia after her sentence to be recognized or reared. As Agrippa grew no more manageable, but on the contrary became madder from day to day, he transferred him to an island and set a guard of soldiers over him besides. He also provided by a decree of the senate that he should be confined there for all time, and at every mention of him and of the Julias he would sigh deeply and even cry out: "Would that I ne'er had wedded and would I had died without offspring”; and he never alluded to them except as his three boils and his three ulcers.

LIVIA DRUSILLA

In his youth he was betrothed to the daughter of Publius Servilius Isauricus, but when he became reconciled with Antony after their first quarrel, and their troops begged that the rivals be further united by some tie of kinship, he took to wife Antony's stepdaughter Claudia, daughter of Fulvia by Publius Clodius, although she was barely of marriageable age; but because of a falling out with his mother-in‐law Fulvia, he divorced her before they had begun to live together. Shortly after that he married Scribonia, who had been wedded before to two ex-consuls, and was a mother by one of them. He divorced her also, "unable to put up with her shrewish disposition," as he himself writes, and at once took Livia Drusilla from her husband Tiberius Nero, although she was with child [Tiberius] at the time; and he loved and esteemed her to the end without a rival. ... Moreover, to avoid the danger of forgetting what he was to say, or wasting time in committing it to memory, he adopted the practice of reading everything from a manuscript. Even his conversations with individuals and the more important of those with his own wife Livia, he always wrote out and read from a note-book, for fear of saying too much or too little if he spoke offhand. ... Then he sent them all off, and while he was asking some newcomers from the city about the daughter of Drusus, who was ill, he suddenly passed away as he was kissing Livia, uttering these last words: "Live mindful of our wedlock, Livia, and farewell," thus blessed with an easy death and such a one as he had always longed for. For almost always on hearing that anyone had died swiftly and painlessly, he prayed that he and his might have a like euthanasia, for that was the term he was wont to use. He gave but one single sign of wandering before he breathed his last, calling out in sudden terror that forty men were carrying him off. And even this was rather a premonition than a delusion, since it was that very number of soldiers of the pretorian guard that carried him forth to lie in state.

—Suetonius, Life of Augustus

[amberthefantasy]

Nitimur in Vetitum

cast of my fics

aka a reason to post pics of pretty people pt. 2

Tom Glynn-Carney as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus

Oliver Huntington as Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

Nadia Parkes as Livia Drusilla

Alexandra Moloney as Octavia Minor

Bailey Spalding as Scribonia

Milly Alcock as Lucretia Julia Caesaris

Teressa Liane as Horatia Pulvillia

[moths-daily]

Small question. Have you already made a post on the giant leopard moth?

Moth Of The Day #89

Giant Leopard Moth

Hypercompe scribonia

From the erebidae family. They have a wingspan of 76 mm. They tend to inhabit fields, meadows and forest edges. They are distributed through North America from southern Ontario, and southern and eastern United States through New England, Mexico, and south to Colombia.

[jadafitch]

Giant Leopard Moth stickers! New to my ETSY SHOP.

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

whats your favourite dinosaur and why??

The one that looks like this:

Basically because he's a silly guy. He's a hadrosaur and the first dinosaur I got excited about when I learned about them as a kid. Also because he was the first dinosaur I ever got to see in person, and the first one that I ever actually saw off-screen -- the late Paul Sereno went on a lecture tour when I was in grade school and showed us a video of one of his paleontologists discovering a field of fossils in Niger, including this guy.

The video opened with a female paleontologist discovering the skull of this guy's head, in which you could see some of the individual bones. I remember I was at home with a babysitter and I ran upstairs to my mom to tell her about it, because I had never seen such a complete skull fossil before. (That is also when I came to appreciate the centrality of the skull to a human being's personality. The only time I cried in childhood was when we had to put our dog down, but I didn't start crying until I saw the animal's skull).

Anyway, like, officially official name for this guy is Iguanodon bernissartensis, named for the Bernissart cave in Belgium where these specimens were found.

[dailylepidopterans]

[photo cred. mothhunt.blogspot.com]

todays lepidopteran of the day is the giant leopard moth (Hypercompe scribonia)!

these moths, native to north america and ranging from ontario to mexico and south of colombia, have notable sexual dimorphism, with the males being nearly twice the size of females.

[behindfairytales]

DOMINA (2021- ) Curse (2.07)

[crystallizedcheese]

A reference sheet of a characterized moth that I raised!

[blogdemocratesjr]

A Roman Woman by Jeremy Elkington

Once again, ditto Octavian—with the added complication that Octavian’s own wife [Scribonia] was also pregnant. Unblinking, Octavian took a married woman as his mistress. He requested that her husband divorce her so that he in turn might marry her, having determined to divorce his own pregnant wife. But he balked at providing his detractors with unnecessary grounds for accusing him of impropriety. In his defense, he invoked the assistance of the college of pontiffs, asking the priests, as Tacitus recorded, ‘the farcical question whether it was in order for [Livia] to marry—’ that is, remarry while pregnant’.

That learned fraternity obligingly ruled that so long as there was no doubt of the child’s paternity—that Drusus was Nero’s baby—no obstacles existed to Octavian and Livia’s marriage. Cato-like, Nero himself erected no barriers and divorced his wife with every semblance of good grace. Brutally, Octavian ensured Scribonia’s compliance: he divorced her the very day she gave birth. Her baby was a daughter, Julia, as it happened the only child Octavian would have. As a reward for the agonies of childbirth, Scribonia’s treatment appears harsh. Octavian skimped on explanations. ‘I could not bear the way she nagged at me,’ he offered, in Suetonius’s account. Even in Rome, where divorce was an easy matter, his pretext was flimsy.

—Matthew Dennison, Livia, Empress of Rome

[ghoul-haunted]

my favorite part about whatever the hell is wrong with pompey, crassus, and caesar, is the part where caesar arranges a marriage with pompey to his daughter, and then goes to like. arrange a meeting with crassus one on one. no need for an intermediary or more permanent arrangement there, they know each other.

[unanimouslalablah]

Capp family, 1949

Scribonia and Octavius were very successful on the higher clas society in Veronaville, and raided their daughter Contessa to exceed their expectations, which worked out...... too well.

[deceiver-a-day]

Breaking the Curse on Scribonia Uticen

• [x] breaks the curse on Scribonia Uticen 

• [x] grants Scribonia Uticen greater freedoms

• [x] unleashes a shockwave of transformative magic

• [x] awakens you to truths of the world which you were previously unaware 

• [x] binds your heart and will to Scribonia Uticen 

• [x] dooms the closest community 

[natureisthegreatestartist]

What's this? A giant leopard moth (Hypercompe scribonia). Arty and awesome, right?

[herpsandbirds]

Giant Leopard Moth (Hypercompe scribonia), family Erebidae, NE United States

photograph by instagram.com/cadrefighter