EMPRESS OF ROME. The Life of Livia.
London. Published by Quercus, 2010. Royal 8vo. pp.xii + 320, index.black & white illustrations.Some slight discolouration to the foredges else very good copy in original green hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Item #195105
Second wife of the Emperor Augustus, mother of his successor Tiberius, grandmother of Claudius and great grandmother of Caligula, the Empress Livia lived close to the centre of Rome's political power for eight turbulent decades. Her life spanned the years of Rome's transformation from Republic to empire and witnessed both its triumphs under the rule of Augustus and it's lapse into instability under his dysfunctional successor.
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