Empress of Rome
The Life of Livia
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- Internet Archiveempressofromelif0000denn
- ISBN-139780857381637
- ISBN-100857381636
- Library of Congress Control Number2010444454
- Better World Books9780857381637
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- Open LibraryOL34599646M
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- LCCDG279
- LCCDG291.7 L5D46 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.
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HistoryEmperorsEmpressesBiographyRome, historyRome, biographyLivia, empress, consort of augustus, emperor of rome, approximately 56 b.c.-29 a.d
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