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WHEN BOOTY CALLS, DON'T ANSWER |
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| This is a classic case of entrapment, which of course never happened. Graves made it up. All of the ancient sources agree that Postumus was a waste of human flesh, but no one mentions him in connection with Livilla. So we ask, where does Graves get off blackening her character? Just because the girl goes on to make a few mistakes (an adulterous affair with Sejanus, the murder of her second husband Castor) is it really fair of Graves to represent her as an am'bitch'us man-eater? Why not make her responsible for her first husband's death too? Graves gives us a Livilla who lives up to her name- little Livia-, but where Livia manipulates with cool calculation, Livilla profits from her libidinous passion. Graves seems to have an agenda in which he demonizes many of his female characters (notably Livia) but white-washes his male protagonists. Postumus, who seems to have been the poster boy for bad behavior, is transformed into a martyr. | ||||