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Livia Drusa Augusta or Livia Drusilla (58 BC-AD 29) was the wife of Augustus and the most powerful woman in Roman history, acting several times as regent and being Augustus' faithful advisor.
At this time, Livia already had a son, the future emperor Tiberius, and was pregnant of the second (Drusus the Elder).
One by one, all the sons of Julia Caesaris by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa died, ancient sources suggest Livia's aid on this, and Tiberius was nominated heir to the Empire.
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 Livia Drusilla - Wikipedia
Toen zij 16 jaar oud was, trouwde Livia met Tiberius Claudius Nero en kreeg twee kinderen, Tiberius (de latere princeps) en Nero Claudius Drusus.
Een hele reeks personen die meer recht op de troon zouden hebben gehad dan Livia's zoon Tiberius was in de loop der jaren op betrekkelijk jeugdige leeftijd overleden.
Er bestonden geruchten dat Livia hierin de hand zou hebben gehad, geruchten waaraan ook de historicus Tacitus op zijn minst een zeker geloof schonk.
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 Roman Emperors - DIR Livia (Wife of Augustus)
Livia, as history most often knows her,[[1]] was the wife of Augustus for over fifty years, from 38 BC until his death in AD 14, an astonishingly long time in view of life expectancy in ancient Rome.
Livia was born Livia Drusilla in 58 BC,[[2]] the daughter of M. Livius Drusus Claudianus and Alfidia.
Livia had been granted exemption from the obligatory ten-month waiting period required of a widow or divorced woman before remarriage on the grounds that Nero and her new husband had agreed on the coming child's paternity.
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 Livia Drusilla, the First First Lady: There has to be a first of everything, and this lady was it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Livia was given the right to sit with the Vestal Virgins during public performances, she received large numbers of clients, commissioned and dedicated public buildings, sponsored charities and interceded on behalf of provincial emissaries.
She endowed the "Portico of Livia" between the Opian and Cispian Hills in Rome as a public recreational area consisting of a large courtyard with a shrine to Concordia, dedicated to marital concord and harmony.
Livia Drusilla was so revered by later ages that she was claimed as an ancestress of all European royal houses (through Charlemagne and Farabert, King of the Franks from 166 to 186).
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 LIVIA DRUSILLA - LoveToKnow Article on LIVIA DRUSILLA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Livia was suspected of committing various crimes to secure the throne for Tiberius, whereas Augustus naturally favored the claims of his blood-relatives.
Livia continued to live quietly at Rome, in the full enjoyment of authority, until her death at an advanced age.
Tiberius appears to have received the news with indifference, if not with satisfaction; he absented himself from the funeral, and refused to allow her apotheosis; her will was suppressed for a long time and only carried out, and the legacies paid, by Caligula.
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Livia first caught Augustus' eye in 38 B.C., when she was nineteen years of age.
Livia, as a member of the wealthy and powerful Claudian family, possessed wealth and influence that Augustus need desperately to consolidate his position as ruler.
Livia and Augustus never conceived any children together, but the marriage was nonetheless a loving one.
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 Feminae Romanae: The Women of Ancient Rome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Livia was matriarch to Augustus' extended family as epitomized in the dignified procession shown on the Ara Pacis, the magnificent alter dedicated to the Augustan peace and Julio-Claudian family peace as well.
Livia brought her own qualities of beauty, intelligence, discretion and tact to the goal of recreating a new Roman autocracy; her political instincts became invaluable to Augustus during the many crises of his long rule.
Livia continued to participate actively in religious and political affairs until her death in 29 AD at the extraordinary age of 86.
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 VVG: Vereniging voor Vrouwengeschiedenis
Livia Drusilla was de vrouw van de eerste keizer van het Romeinse Rijk, Augustus.
Livia was dus als het ware een brug tussen de twee families, en maakte het mogelijk om ze als één grote familie te zien.
- Flory, M.B., 'Sic exempla parantur: Livia's shrine to Concordia and the Porticus Liviae', in: Historia 33 (1984), 309-330.
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 Livia Drusilla
Livia was born Livia Drusilla in 58 BC, the daughter of M. Livius Drusus Claudianus and Alfidia.
Despite the fact that Livia was a beautiful young woman with whom Octavian was supposed to have fallen quickly in love and that the two seem to have lived happily together ever after, their marriage was, at bottom, political.
Livia was appointed a priestess in Augustus' newly established cult and, like a vestal, the right to a lictor when she performed her duties.
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 Livia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At this time, Livia already had a son, the future emperor (Son-in-law of Augustus who became a suspicious tyrannical Emperor of Rome after a brilliant military career (42 BC to AD 37)) Tiberius, and was pregnant of the second ((Click link for more info and facts about Drusus the Elder) Drusus the Elder).
One by one, all the sons of Julia Caesaris by (Roman general who commanded the fleet that defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (63-12 BC)) Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa died, and Tiberius was nominated heir to the Empire.
Speaking against her became (Disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior) treason in 20 and, in 24 he granted his mother a theatre seat among the ((Roman mythology) one of the virgin priestesses consecrated to the Roman goddess Vesta and to maintaining the sacred fire in her temple) Vestal Virgins.
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 The family and property of Livia Drusilla.
Because Livia's prominence was based largely upon the same factors--family and property--that brought any woman of the Roman elite class prestige and influence, she serves as a paradigm of the increasing social and economic aggrandizement possible for women in the late republic and early empire.
Nevertheless, Livia's wealth and influence surpassed that of women before her largely because of the unique circumstances in which she found herself as wife of the first emperor and mother of the second.
Furthermore, Livia occupies an important position in Roman history as a foundational figure in the Julio-Claudian dynasty and as the first woman to attain the title Augusta, a title that she received as an honor but which she effectively defined as a position for subsequent imperial women.
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 Livia Drusilla
Livia did not feel bad, however, because she was never really happy and they fought with each other a lot.
Livia was a very good example of how a Roman wife and mother was to act at that time.She kept house, did charity work, helped the parents of large families, provided dowries for poor brides, and maintained orphans at her own expense.
Livia wanted one of her sons to be the emperor of Rome, and would do anything in her power to achieve this very noble goal.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1075 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
livia drusilla, the mo­ther of the emperor Tiberius and the wife of Au­gustus.
Here she was deflowered by her brother Caius (afterwards the emperor Caligula), before he was of age to assume the toga virilis, and Antonia had once the misfortune to be an eye-witness of the incest of these her grand­children.
She had been already promised in marriage to Epiphanes, son of Antiochus, king of Comagene, but the match was broken off in consequence of Epiphanes refusing to perform his promise of conforming to the Jewish religion.
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 68th Generation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
His wife, Livia Drusilla, was his cousin and may have been only 13 years old when Tiberius (Livia and Tiberius's first son and also Nero Claudius Drusus's older brother) was born.
Livia Drusilla [scrapbook] "Julia Augusta" was born 30 Jan 58 BC and married 17 Jan 38 BC.
Nevertheless, Livia and Augustus remained married for the next 52 years, despite the fact that they had no children, and she always enjoyed the status of a privileged councilor to her husband.
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 Livia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Livia Drusa Augusta, Livia Drusilla, or Julia Augusta (58 BC-AD 29) was the wife of Caesar Augustus and the most powerful woman in the early Roman empire, acting several times as regent and being Augustus' faithful advisor.
In 42 BC, her father committed suicide in Philippi, Greece along with Cassius and Brutus, the assassins of Julius Caesar, who were defeated by Octavian and Mark Antony.
Archaeology of the Villa of Livia at Primaporta
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 Ancient History Bulletin 9, 1995: Deification of Roman Women, Marleen B. Flory
Livia's new name was apt for the sacerdos divi Augusti; she had the divine favor of the god whose cult she served.
Drusilla was not the wife of the emperor or the mother of a potential emperor.
Livia's cult was joined to that of her husband in the same temple; cult practices were entrusted to the Vestal Virgins with whom Livia and successive Imperial women were closely identified (Cass.
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 AllRefer.com - Livia Drusilla (Ancient History, Rome, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Her son Drusus Senior (see Drusus), born soon after her remarriage, was not the son of Augustus but of her first husband.
On the accession of her son Tiberius, Livia Drusilla attempted unsuccessfully to control the government.
She was known for her dignity, intelligence, and ambition.
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 Livia, Romans (Photo Archive)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Livia was first married to Tiberius Claudius Nero to whom she bore two sons, Nero Claudius Drusus and Tiberius Claudius Nero.
Livia was quite influential, through her personal wealth, through her intelligence and political sense, and through her marriage to Augustus.
Livia's influence continued when her son Tiberius became emperor, until her death in 29 CE at the age of 85.
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In the wake of Livia’s death, we reflect on her accomplishments and impact on Roman society.
Livia Drusilla died Monday at the age of 86.
While Livia may have been a complacent wife, she did have a propensity to meddle in her husband’s affairs.
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Livia, her face now growing whiter and whiter with each step, was fearing for her soul and pitying herself.
Livia stepped forward and was shrouded by three menacing, elongated shadows that connected to three tall, threatening silhouettes of three men sitting at podiums.
Livia, now dead white, but still standing undaunted and proud, refused to be reduced to tears.
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 Suetonius on Livia
Vexed at his mother Livia, alleging that she claimed an equal share in the rule, he shunned frequent meetings with her and long and confidential conversations, to avoid the appearance of being guided by her advice; though in point of fact he was wont every now and then to need and to follow it.
On her urging him again and again to appoint among the jurors a man who had been made a citizen, he declared that he would do it only on condition that she would allow an entry to be made in the official list that it was forced upon him by his mother.
Then Livia, in a rage, drew from a secret place and read some old letters written to her by Augustus with regard to the austerity and stubbornness of Tiberius' disposition.
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 Livia
Despite the fact that Livia was never able to bear children for Augustus (although she may have had a miscarriage or stillbirth), their marriage lasted 52 years.
The cameo below shows Livia wearing the mural crown associated with Cybele, the Great Mother; in one hand she holds stalks of wheat, symbol of Ceres, and in the other is the bust of the divine Augustus.
It was not until the accession of her grandson Claudius that Livia herself was deified as “diva Augusta” in 41 CE.
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 Ancient Roman Women
Behind the scenes, Livia and Augustus were extremely close, and she played a part in his important decisions, although some sources unfairly portray her as the evil, manipulative power behind the throne.
Livia Drusilla was originally married to Tiberius Claudius Nero until the emperor Augustus forced him to divorce her and become his own wife.
Livia was a member of the powerful Claudian family and the new emperor needed her wealth and influence to establish his position.
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 Livia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Being Augustus the father of only one daughter (Julia Caesaris by Scribonia), Livia revealed to be an ambitious mother and soon started to push her own sons, Tiberius and Drusus into power.
For some time, Livia and her son Tiberius, the new Emperor, got along wit each other.
When Livia died in 29 AD, Tiberius had already revealed his cruel nature.
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 Livia : Livia Drusilla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Livia (58 B. Livia (58 B.C. - 29 A.D.) was the wife of Augustus Caesar and the mother of Drusus and the emperor Tiberius.
She was the power behind the throne in Rome for decades.
As to the silver plate which this celebrated prisoner circumstance did happen, but it happened at Valzin, in the time of respecting the Piedmontese prisoner.
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