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9780312658649

Livia, Empress of Rome : A Biography

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    9780312658649

  • ISBN10:

    0312658648

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-01-04
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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This is a new biography of the infamous Empress Livia, a woman long thought to be one of the most feared villainesses of historyLivia, Empress of Rometells the story of one of the most fascinating, perplexing, and powerful figures of the ancient world: the empress Livia. Second wife of the emperor Augustus and the mother of his successor Tiberius, Livia has been vilified by posterity (most notably by Tacitus and Robert Graves) as the quintessence of the scheming Roman matriarch, poisoning her relatives one by one to smooth her son's path to the imperial throne.In this elegant and rigorously researched biography, Matthew Dennison rescues the historical Livia from this crudely drawn caricature of the popular imagination. He depicts a complex, courageous and richly gifted woman whose true crime was not murder but the exercise of power, and who, in a male-dominated society, had the energy to create for herself both a prominent public profile and a significant sphere of political influence.

Author Biography

MATTHEW DENNISON is the author of The Last Princess. A journalist, he contributes to The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Country Life, and The Spectator. He is married and lives in London and North Wales.

Table of Contents

Author's Notep. ix
Family treep. xii
Preface 'He chopped down the family tree'p. 1
'Superbisssima'p. 5
In the beginning ... were the Claudiip. 14
'Innocent of guilt'p. 24
'Virility to her reasoning powerp. 33
A young man of noble family' of native talent and moderation?p. 43
'Night would last for ever'p. 51
Fugitivep. 58
"The whimsicality of fate'p. 65
'An eagle flew by'p. 73
The price of comfortp. 81
'No magic chant will make you a mother'p. 89
By the side of the goddessp. 97
Sacrosanctp. 106
'A charming view with minimal expensep. 114
'A man and his family should live together as partners'p. 121
'They compelled him, as it seemed, to accept autocratic powers'p. 130
'Born of his sacred blood'p. 139
'Her sacred office'p. 147
'If you come to any harm ... that is the end of me too'p. 155
Three cities of Judaeap. 164
'The man set apart by such an alliance would be enormously elevated'p. 171
'Outstandingly virtuous'p. 180
'Tiberius closer to Caesarp. 188
'What more can I ask of the immortal gods?'p. 197
'Try not to guess what lies in the future'p. 206
'Perpetual security'p. 214
Purer than Parian marble?p. 223
'Blood-red comets'p. 231
Augustap. 241
'His mother Livia vexed him'p. 249
Above the law?p. 257
Epilogue 'You held your course without remorse'p. 265
Notesp. 271
Bibliographyp. 294
Glossaryp. 302
Indexp. 305
List of illustrationsp. 319
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