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A Woman to Know: Livia Drusilla

A Woman to Know: Livia Drusilla

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Julia Carpenter
May 31, 2019
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She had gained such a hold on the aged Augustus. — Tacitus

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Two thousand years ago, Livia embodied the ideal wife: beautiful, wise and generous. But to some in Roman government, her political machinations and merciless ambition represented all that was wrong with her husband's empire.

As the third wife of Caesar Augustus, the first…

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