Supprime iam lacrimas. Livia, le lacrime per Druso nella Consolatio ad Liviam, l'ambigua moderatio per Germanico in Tacito e nel SCPP

This paper analyses the way in which the anonymous author of the Consolatio ad Liviam portrays Livia Drusilla’s responses to the death of her son, Drusus Maior. This representation of the woman as mater dolens is compared with her characterisation as a positive exemplum of stoic endurance of sorrow, as outlined by Seneca in the Consolatio ad Marciam; this portrait is then compared with the behaviour of ambiguous indifference in which Livia would have characterised her public actions at Germanicus’ death, as described in Tacitus and Cassius Dio, as well as in senatusconsultum de Gneo Pisone patre.