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Empress of Rome

Matthew Dennison · 2011

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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.

Book details

Year
2011
Language
English
Publisher
Quercus
Editions
2
ISBN
9780857381637

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