In the tapestries, and the one we've just seen, aen, at the moment of assassination, caesar is still the centre of attention. The whole kind of interest in in this picture is what's going to happen next. And monarchy in imperial power is evanescent, jerome reminds us. Buti i wont usto talk about women and power. To cite your last brilliant book, there are no empresses, but there are wives and daughters and mothers who often have important efancilary rolls in these stories of the caesars. How are they depicted? I think we're starting with the infamous messelina, who's a bit