I had prepared for this moment and in my head was a list of the things I must now do. I rose with the first, carefully-thought-out speech, on my lips - “May the gods receive my husband the Emperor Augustus into the place they have surely prepared for him” - when I realised that Ceryllus had actually said the wrong name.

Flighty Aphrodite or Goddesses Behaving Badly From Homer’s Iliad, Book 14:But when she had clothed herself in all this finery, Hera left …

Lucius stood in the middle of his father’s study and lifted his chin. “Too high,” said Cicero. “You mustn’t look defiant or …

I am a widow, but I still must wait a few more days.