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Livia, Empress of Rome: A Biography
Rome is a subject of endless fascination, and in this new biography of the infamous Empress Livia, Matthew Dennison brings to life a woman long believed to be one of the most feared villainesses of history. 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 center of Roman 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 its lapse into instability under his dysfunctional successor. Livia was given the honorific title Augusta in her husband's will, and was posthumously deified by the emperor Claudius—but posterity would prove less respectful. The Roman historian Tacitus anathematized her as “malevolent” and a “feminine bully” and inspired Robert Graves's celebrated twentieth-century depiction of Livia in I, Claudius as the quintessence of the scheming matriarch, poisoning her relatives one by one to smooth her son’s path to the imperial throne. Livia, Empress of Rome rescues the historical Livia from the crude caricature of popular myth to paint an elegant and richly textured portrait. In this rigorously researched biography, Dennison weighs the evidence found in contemporary sources to present a more nuanced assessment. Livia’s true “crime,” he reveals, was not murder but the exercise of power. The Livia who emerges here is a complex, courageous and gifted woman, and one of the most fascinating and perplexing figures of the ancient world.
336 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 2010
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Matthew Dennison
33 books64 followersMatthew Dennison is the author of five critically acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West, a Book of the Year in The Times, Spectator, Independent and Observer. He is a contributor to Country Life and lives in the United Kingdom.
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November 18, 2012
Dennison might be a great researcher, but he's no story teller. He took a fascinating figure from history and wrote a very boring book about her.
April 11, 2012
Empress of Rome is a meticulously detailed biography of the first empress of Rome, Livia, the wife of Augustus. It deals with the accusations of murder that were levelled at her by later writers, touches on the reason for Tacitus et al.'s hatred of her, and tries to present a positive image of her. It notes her happy marriage and her faithfulness to both Augustus and her first husband (though she abandoned the first husband for Augustus ultimately), and examines the role she played in defining the way a virtuous Roman woman should behave.
In the end, she seems a distant figure, but one who definitely lived, breathed, loved, had ambitions, and knew exactly how to get what she wanted. She played the faultless Roman matron throughout her life, but found ways to wield power regardless. She seems likeable, actually -- though I doubt you could have got to know and love Livia, only to rather worship her, from the sound of all this!
It's a very readable biography, though it takes quite a while to get through -- as I said, it's meticulously detailed.
In the end, she seems a distant figure, but one who definitely lived, breathed, loved, had ambitions, and knew exactly how to get what she wanted. She played the faultless Roman matron throughout her life, but found ways to wield power regardless. She seems likeable, actually -- though I doubt you could have got to know and love Livia, only to rather worship her, from the sound of all this!
It's a very readable biography, though it takes quite a while to get through -- as I said, it's meticulously detailed.
September 26, 2022
Dennison has evidently done a very meticulous research and his exposition of factography is nothing short of incredible. However, I feel that he managed to drown Livia within the continuous stream of historical facts – somehow he took the biography of one of world’s most interesting and powerful women and managed to make it quite boring. I can see the appeal and the worth of this book – it’s the most detailed biography of Livia out there, and I found Dennison’s speculations about certain historical questions very interesting. However, if you’re not a hardcore history buff or a Classicist and you’re looking for an interesting read about this fascinating woman, I wouldn’t recommend this book to you.
August 17, 2022
Never heard of Livia, first empress of imperial Rome? Don’t worry: I’m not sure Matthew Dennison has either. You’d be better off just reading her Wikipedia page. I bet it’s more engaging.
November 28, 2024
Don't know much about Livia, Augustus' wife? You still won't know much after reading Livia, Empress of Rome: A Biography. You'd be better off reading Caesar's Wives, which is much more entertaining and nowhere near as repetitive. Dennison keeps repeating that the rumors about Livia being a ruthless murderess ... and then goes on to write that Caligula shagged his sisters -- which has never been proven to have happened. Head. Wall. BANG. (Ouch.)
April 2, 2024
genuinely only 30% of this book was about livia 😭 the conveying of information was incredibly confusing too, with the author jumping from one topic to another without any cohesion, but i enjoyed it nonetheless ! give me any book about the roman empire and i’ll devour it
March 26, 2019
Loved the information. Hated the way it was presented.
Boring book...
Boring book...
May 31, 2025
Very well-researched and a fascinating story— but told so dryly and a bit confusing at times.
October 9, 2023
A good way to learn about one of the most interesting women in history, but not a very enjoyable book to just read.
July 7, 2013
Livia's always held a certain fascination for me. She's a fairly obscure figure among non-history-buffs. (Versus Cleopatra. Everyone knows about Cleopatra.) Yet during her era, no other woman held the sort of precedence that she did. Praised for her beauty--praised, at the time, for her matronly virtues--she would go down in history as a wicked stepmother sort of figure, a scheming matriarch who makes men's penises shrivel up at the sound of her name. (No, seriously. Is it any surprise that "I, Claudius", the work that would make Livia infamous, was written by a man?) So imagine my happiness and surprise at finding a whole biography just about Livia. How did it turn out? Eh. Results were mixed.
The Good
Matthew Dennison very clearly appreciates his subject. He places great care in small but helpful details, like the color of Livia's wedding veil and certain omens that she put great store in. There's a slight, but not overpowering, feminist edge to his work. Personally, I believe that when attempting to rehabilitate a defamed woman's image, it's always helpful to approach the subject with a feminist eye. Dennison doesn't attempt to modernize Livia in any way, but attempts to understand her motivations from the perspective of a woman in her day and age. I particularly commend a male historian for being able to do this effectively, as I tend to find them a little lacking in that department.
At the same time, Dennison is careful to keep from projecting his ideas and viewpoints onto Livia. He keeps strictly to the facts. Very rarely does he do the thing that many biographers are criticized for: assume. He only draws conclusions when he absolutely must.
Dennison also manages to give us an effective look at Augustus, who I found myself liking a lot more than I expected. (I'm an Antony and Cleopatra fan. We tend to look at Augustus with a bit of disdain. Man didn't know how to party.) He's remarkably human in Dennison's hands, perhaps moreso than his wife.
The Bad
Unfortunately, there's a reason why Livia biographies are so hard to find. Ancient sources are very difficult to uncover--particularly accurate ancient sources. Dennison, again, never wants to draw his own conclusions--not even when they're reasonable. That accounts for the book's slim pagecount.
There just isn't that much Livia in a book about Livia. I can understand a lot of material on Augustus and Tiberius, as they were huge parts of her life. But sometimes I felt like I was reading a biography on the vs. Livia, particularly in the case of Tiberius. Extremely noticeable in this regard were entire pages going on about people who weren't even that important to Livia.
Often Dennison was forced to go on tangents about women who would have been Livia's contemporaries. He would have to draw his conclusions about how Livia "may" have had similar experiences. I couldn't help but feel that this issue could have been handled more deftly--in a way that more directly related to the subject.
The Ugly
Livia is a remarkably fascinating woman. So I must credit the book's tendency to stray from its focus with why it sometimes ventured into boring territory.
The Verdict
Nothing overly amazing or groundbreaking here. However, "Empress of Rome" is interesting and helpful. If you want to learn more about Livia and are going into it knowing little to nothing, I recommend it. If you're an expert or a history buff, you might want to skim it and otherwise look elsewhere.
The Good
Matthew Dennison very clearly appreciates his subject. He places great care in small but helpful details, like the color of Livia's wedding veil and certain omens that she put great store in. There's a slight, but not overpowering, feminist edge to his work. Personally, I believe that when attempting to rehabilitate a defamed woman's image, it's always helpful to approach the subject with a feminist eye. Dennison doesn't attempt to modernize Livia in any way, but attempts to understand her motivations from the perspective of a woman in her day and age. I particularly commend a male historian for being able to do this effectively, as I tend to find them a little lacking in that department.
At the same time, Dennison is careful to keep from projecting his ideas and viewpoints onto Livia. He keeps strictly to the facts. Very rarely does he do the thing that many biographers are criticized for: assume. He only draws conclusions when he absolutely must.
Dennison also manages to give us an effective look at Augustus, who I found myself liking a lot more than I expected. (I'm an Antony and Cleopatra fan. We tend to look at Augustus with a bit of disdain. Man didn't know how to party.) He's remarkably human in Dennison's hands, perhaps moreso than his wife.
The Bad
Unfortunately, there's a reason why Livia biographies are so hard to find. Ancient sources are very difficult to uncover--particularly accurate ancient sources. Dennison, again, never wants to draw his own conclusions--not even when they're reasonable. That accounts for the book's slim pagecount.
There just isn't that much Livia in a book about Livia. I can understand a lot of material on Augustus and Tiberius, as they were huge parts of her life. But sometimes I felt like I was reading a biography on the vs. Livia, particularly in the case of Tiberius. Extremely noticeable in this regard were entire pages going on about people who weren't even that important to Livia.
Often Dennison was forced to go on tangents about women who would have been Livia's contemporaries. He would have to draw his conclusions about how Livia "may" have had similar experiences. I couldn't help but feel that this issue could have been handled more deftly--in a way that more directly related to the subject.
The Ugly
Livia is a remarkably fascinating woman. So I must credit the book's tendency to stray from its focus with why it sometimes ventured into boring territory.
The Verdict
Nothing overly amazing or groundbreaking here. However, "Empress of Rome" is interesting and helpful. If you want to learn more about Livia and are going into it knowing little to nothing, I recommend it. If you're an expert or a history buff, you might want to skim it and otherwise look elsewhere.
February 13, 2014
I picked up this book because I have been interested in Livia since watching "I, Claudius" in my college years. She was a wife, mother, and grandmother to a number of earliest emperors of Rome. History has also left her with a reputation of being willing to do anything to help her family, including poisoning and murdering rivals to the men in her life.
This book and its author strive to paint a different picture of Livia, a woman from a very old and established Roman family. Since most of the historians who focused on her wrote a great deal after her era, there reliability is questionable, at best. Dennison highlights this and how all of the artwork representing her and the official records of the period indicate a woman who took back seat and really played the role of model wife and mother.
Overall, the book was good, though, at times it seemed more like a history of the the Roman Empire during her lifetime than really a biography. So little is known about the specific details of her life that Dennison also draws rough conclusions based on stories about like peers rather than known fact. Ironically, this is largely what he complains about what the historians have done.
With that said, I am a Roman Empire fan and this was good reading!
This book and its author strive to paint a different picture of Livia, a woman from a very old and established Roman family. Since most of the historians who focused on her wrote a great deal after her era, there reliability is questionable, at best. Dennison highlights this and how all of the artwork representing her and the official records of the period indicate a woman who took back seat and really played the role of model wife and mother.
Overall, the book was good, though, at times it seemed more like a history of the the Roman Empire during her lifetime than really a biography. So little is known about the specific details of her life that Dennison also draws rough conclusions based on stories about like peers rather than known fact. Ironically, this is largely what he complains about what the historians have done.
With that said, I am a Roman Empire fan and this was good reading!
August 1, 2011
Doesn't quite rehabilitate Livia like Dennison wants it to. Also, it's not an interesting read, though the subject should be.
January 29, 2025
A solid history of a very important, and often overlooked, woman.
Books like this are difficult to write. Livia was an absolutely key historical figure, but our sources for women of this period are poor. Plenty of classical historians considered it worth their time to write down all manner of details and anecdotes about the major men of the day, from Mark Anthony's teenage love affairs to Ceasar's every quip. Unfortunately they did not devote the same attention to the women of the age. What they did write was often vile gossip, stereotypes, and character assassinations. Of the age of Cleopatra and Livia, our traditional history reduces the great women to a seductress and a vindictive poisoner respectively. This cries out for a more balanced view of the evidence.
We do know enough about women like Livia that there must absolutely be a book about her, but there are such great gaps in our understanding that often the best that can be done is to explain what was happening around her, what was happening to her family and her empire, then try to deduce what was happening in her world. This book does an excellent and careful job of filtering out the gossip, avoiding excess speculation, and presenting what can be known about this remarkable woman.
This being said, however, there are plenty of absolutely fascinating things we do know about the First Empress of Rome, and it is well worth a read for anyone interested in the period!
In ~40BC we find Livia fleeing through a burning forest. Her father and husband put her on the loosing side of a civil war. Her father had killed himself, her husband had kept fighting. She was being hunted by the forces of Octavian, the man who won the civil war and drove her father to suicide. By a twist of fate, Octavian was also her future husband. With a tale which starts like this, how can we not talk about this remarkable woman?
Books like this are difficult to write. Livia was an absolutely key historical figure, but our sources for women of this period are poor. Plenty of classical historians considered it worth their time to write down all manner of details and anecdotes about the major men of the day, from Mark Anthony's teenage love affairs to Ceasar's every quip. Unfortunately they did not devote the same attention to the women of the age. What they did write was often vile gossip, stereotypes, and character assassinations. Of the age of Cleopatra and Livia, our traditional history reduces the great women to a seductress and a vindictive poisoner respectively. This cries out for a more balanced view of the evidence.
We do know enough about women like Livia that there must absolutely be a book about her, but there are such great gaps in our understanding that often the best that can be done is to explain what was happening around her, what was happening to her family and her empire, then try to deduce what was happening in her world. This book does an excellent and careful job of filtering out the gossip, avoiding excess speculation, and presenting what can be known about this remarkable woman.
This being said, however, there are plenty of absolutely fascinating things we do know about the First Empress of Rome, and it is well worth a read for anyone interested in the period!
In ~40BC we find Livia fleeing through a burning forest. Her father and husband put her on the loosing side of a civil war. Her father had killed himself, her husband had kept fighting. She was being hunted by the forces of Octavian, the man who won the civil war and drove her father to suicide. By a twist of fate, Octavian was also her future husband. With a tale which starts like this, how can we not talk about this remarkable woman?
February 26, 2025
I am very conflicted writing a review on this book.
On the one hand, there is my absolute love for the character of Livia, a woman who obtained unimaginable power and status in a world where women are at best pawns in political games of the reigning male upper class. Even though very little real information is known about Livia, I loved discovering more about her, like her use of modest clothing and hairstyles to support her husband's political anti-Cleopatra agenda. At the same time she swayed influence over him and enforced her own political agenda to the extent that Augustus wrote little notes for himself to be better prepared in his political discussions with her.
Despite all that, I struggled to get through this book. The lack of reliable historical information about Livia leads Matthew Dennison to filling the pages with an overload of barely relevant anecdotes about contemporaries. On top of that, the book is composed of mostly awkwardly constructed, complex sentences. Rewriting the book more to the point (or letting an LLM do that for us) might have cut this book short by half, but it would have done more justice to the rigorous research behind the book, and Julia Augusta herself.
Tacitus and Robert Graves tried to drag her to the mud, but in the end, Livia *did* gain immortality, still inspiring books written about her mysterious character, 2000 years posthumously.
On the one hand, there is my absolute love for the character of Livia, a woman who obtained unimaginable power and status in a world where women are at best pawns in political games of the reigning male upper class. Even though very little real information is known about Livia, I loved discovering more about her, like her use of modest clothing and hairstyles to support her husband's political anti-Cleopatra agenda. At the same time she swayed influence over him and enforced her own political agenda to the extent that Augustus wrote little notes for himself to be better prepared in his political discussions with her.
Despite all that, I struggled to get through this book. The lack of reliable historical information about Livia leads Matthew Dennison to filling the pages with an overload of barely relevant anecdotes about contemporaries. On top of that, the book is composed of mostly awkwardly constructed, complex sentences. Rewriting the book more to the point (or letting an LLM do that for us) might have cut this book short by half, but it would have done more justice to the rigorous research behind the book, and Julia Augusta herself.
Tacitus and Robert Graves tried to drag her to the mud, but in the end, Livia *did* gain immortality, still inspiring books written about her mysterious character, 2000 years posthumously.
February 9, 2023
A history book with a noble goal - to shed light on a woman who has been unfairly maligned for centuries and to tell her story rather than that of the famous and more powerful men in her life. I really appreciate what the author was trying to do here, but unfortunately the storytelling aspect is really lacking. If you want very well-researched facts about legislation, concerns over the Claudian succession, triumphal arches, etc. this is the place to go, but there is no contextualisation (what else was going on in the Empire?!) and the author assumes a lot of prior knowledge about the Roman world. And somehow he managed to gloss over some of the most exciting events that occurred during Livia's lifetime. Even Livia's own death was skipped.
History is of course about research and avoiding speculation, but there are other authors out there (Rachel Holmes, Neil Price spring to mind) who manage to really immerse you with thriller-like narratives without veering into fantasy. That's why I had to sadly give this one 2 rather than 3 stars.
History is of course about research and avoiding speculation, but there are other authors out there (Rachel Holmes, Neil Price spring to mind) who manage to really immerse you with thriller-like narratives without veering into fantasy. That's why I had to sadly give this one 2 rather than 3 stars.
March 19, 2022
Volgens de antieke bronnen was de tweede vrouw van Octavianus Augustus weinig meer dan een manipulatieve vrouw met liters bloed aan handen. Met name Tacitus, maar ook Suetonius en Cassius Dio, schuiven haar de dood van nagenoeg alle erfgenamen in de schoenen. Dit alles om er maar voor te zorgen dat haar oudste zoon Tiberius uit haar eerste huwelijk aan de macht kon komen. Zelfs in het boek I Claudius uit 1934 weet Robert Graves zeker dat Augustus door zijn vrouw Livia (met wie hij al meer dan 50 jaar was getrouwd) was vergiftigd. Het feit dat er voor alle beschuldigingen, zowel die uit het verleden, als van recentere datum weinig bewijs valt te vinden lijkt er in de geschiedschrijving niet toe te doen. Een zwartgemaakte vijand is een overwonnen vijand. Matthew Dennison zet -zeer terecht- in dit boek de tegenaanval in. De af en toe wat houterige schrijfstijl van Dennison nemen we op de koop toe.
June 3, 2025
This biography of Livia Drusilla reads extremely easy and takes as fairly critical an approach to the ancient sources as possible, recognizing their shortfalls. This covers everything known to us about Livia’s life, which is necessarily proscribed by her being a woman.
The book shies away from definitively laying blame for any deaths at Livia’s door, though it examines the many accusations made. The truth is, we will never know if Livia had any of Augustus’s family murdered, and the claims made by Tacitus and Dio, and popularized by Graves, have unquestionably colored our perception of her as a result (much as Augustus’s smear campaign against Cleopatra colored our perception of her through the ages).
I come away from this informative biography more appreciative of Livia’s expert wielding of ‘soft power’ in such a patriarchal world and a firmer belief in the sexist hypocrisy of her husband, the emperor Augustus.
The book shies away from definitively laying blame for any deaths at Livia’s door, though it examines the many accusations made. The truth is, we will never know if Livia had any of Augustus’s family murdered, and the claims made by Tacitus and Dio, and popularized by Graves, have unquestionably colored our perception of her as a result (much as Augustus’s smear campaign against Cleopatra colored our perception of her through the ages).
I come away from this informative biography more appreciative of Livia’s expert wielding of ‘soft power’ in such a patriarchal world and a firmer belief in the sexist hypocrisy of her husband, the emperor Augustus.
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There appears to be so little about Livia in the original sources that in order to write a full length biography authors are having to come up with inventive ways to fill the page count. Anthony Barrett used a unique structure. Dennison seemingly tries a different approach: Roman life through the lens of Livia. For example a chapter dedicated to her childhood will also include a description of typical Roman female upbringing to add dimension and depth as well as context. The book is mostly chronological following Livia’s life. It gets a little muddled in the middle when discussing Tiberius (jumping forward to discuss his time as emperor and then jumping back). It does get more detailed as it progresses as the original sources mention Livia more. Dennison tries to remain balanced and doesn’t paint her in a biased light, he certainly doesn’t take Tacitus to his word!
There appears to be so little about Livia in the original sources that in order to write a full length biography authors are having to come up with inventive ways to fill the page count. Anthony Barrett used a unique structure. Dennison seemingly tries a different approach: Roman life through the lens of Livia. For example a chapter dedicated to her childhood will also include a description of typical Roman female upbringing to add dimension and depth as well as context. The book is mostly chronological following Livia’s life. It gets a little muddled in the middle when discussing Tiberius (jumping forward to discuss his time as emperor and then jumping back). It does get more detailed as it progresses as the original sources mention Livia more. Dennison tries to remain balanced and doesn’t paint her in a biased light, he certainly doesn’t take Tacitus to his word!
June 24, 2021
Het onderwerp is interessant en het historisch inzicht van Dennison goed. Zijn schrijfstijl maakt dit boek echter toch warrig. Hij wil te veel. De hoofstukken zijn chronologisch én thematisch tegelijk. Het staat bol van metaforen die het beeld meer vertroebelen dan verhelderen.
Om een voorbeeld te geven. Eén van de laatste hoofdstukken begint met een verwijzing naar een ring die de Engelse koninklijke familie meer dan een eeuw geleden in bezit kreeg. De ring is van moderne oorsprong, gemaakt honderden jaren na het leven van Livia. Mogelijk staan op de ring Tiberius, Livia en Roma. Mogelijk is het een late replica van een andere ring die net anders is. Al dit om te verwijzen naar de relatie tussen Livia en Tiberius en wie daarin prominenter was. In mijn optiek nodeloos omslachtig.
Om een voorbeeld te geven. Eén van de laatste hoofdstukken begint met een verwijzing naar een ring die de Engelse koninklijke familie meer dan een eeuw geleden in bezit kreeg. De ring is van moderne oorsprong, gemaakt honderden jaren na het leven van Livia. Mogelijk staan op de ring Tiberius, Livia en Roma. Mogelijk is het een late replica van een andere ring die net anders is. Al dit om te verwijzen naar de relatie tussen Livia en Tiberius en wie daarin prominenter was. In mijn optiek nodeloos omslachtig.
May 25, 2019
This book bills itself as a biography of Livia, but it's not. It's a biography of Nero, of Octavian, and of Tiberius. Most anything Dennison has to say about Livia is either guesswork, part of Augustus's propaganda, or part of the propaganda of later sources, especially Tacitus.
This is not Dennison's fault, really. He's trying to recreate a biography 2000 years later with only biased sources and speculation. He does his best with what he has but this book might be more correctly labelled a biography of three men tied together by one woman because the only concrete actions we have are taken are taken by men.
This is not Dennison's fault, really. He's trying to recreate a biography 2000 years later with only biased sources and speculation. He does his best with what he has but this book might be more correctly labelled a biography of three men tied together by one woman because the only concrete actions we have are taken are taken by men.
March 17, 2020
There is so much we do not know, can only speculate, about such an impressive eoman of history. As grand as she was, Livia's history is greatly unknown for certain, including her feels about how much she managed to achieve in life. Still, a powerful woman who cultivated her image around the prominent men in her life, Livia was a woman who stood out and led a nation. I enjoyed Dennison's view into her life and career as "Mother of Rome". A very interesting read.
October 11, 2023
This is an OK biography of one of the most interesting and little understood figures in Ancient Rome. Dennison aims to present a balanced account of her life but, in reality, he cannot get past the fact that his historical sources are either hagiographic propaganda or bitter and baseless condemnations, long after her life was over. In the end, he is unable to give us any clear picture of Livia the Empress at all.
May 29, 2021
De rol en positie van een hoofdrolspeelster (!) in een piekperiode van de Romeinse geschiedenis. Het blijft wat oppervlakkig in gebeurtenissen en geschiedenis, met (geloofwaardige) aannames en speculaties, maar een interessante beschouwing van een machtige slimme vrouw in een mannenwereld.
November 9, 2024
This is a very dry, academic book trying to pretend to be an enjoyable and game changing biography. If you’re doing research into Livia, it has enormous value. If you’re a normal reader trying to indulge their love of Rome or keen to learn more about important women, this book is hard work.
January 9, 2026
i was torn between 2 and 3 stars.. plain. author manages to somehow drown Livia in her own biography. book’s informative but the lack of chronology and tactic in presenting the history was just disappointing. fascinating, strong woman that deserves more than that.
January 23, 2018
This was pretty boring. And uninteresting.
May 31, 2022
omg livia is so not like other girls #feminism
June 29, 2022
Starts well, but does not hold it
Still an interesting book to read, even if the quality of the writing is average.
Still an interesting book to read, even if the quality of the writing is average.
March 10, 2023
A very intriguing book, that got me hooked.
December 2, 2024
Fascinating Work
I knew zilch about Augustus and Livia before reading this book other than what I have seen in Rome. It is an "appetizer" for more.
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I knew zilch about Augustus and Livia before reading this book other than what I have seen in Rome. It is an "appetizer" for more.
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