In Later Fiction
The events of the divorce are dramatised in Octavia which is sometimes attributed to Seneca the Younger and, more recently, in Handel's lost opera Nero, Octavia (opera, 1705) by Keiser, and Claudio Monteverdi and Giovanni Francesco Busenello's L'incoronazione di Poppea. Octavia is a character in the novel and television series I Claudius and Claudius the God.
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“If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.”
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