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| The events in this scene are corroborated by Graves and Suetonius, although the dippy dialogue is Pulman's. How pathetic. Tiberius comes off as such a whiney adolescent. It's as if he's in high school and dumped for the first time. Blood mingling and carressing - now that's a mature solution. Both Graves and Suetonius stress Tiberius' love for Vipsania (a rarity in Roman marriage). They (Graves, p.72, Suet, Tib 7) along with Velleius Paterculus (259) give Julia's sluttery as a source of his disgust. Graves (p.41) basically translates Suetonius' account of Tiberius' meeting with Vipsania and the measures taken to prevent it from happening again. | ||||