Empress Of Rome. The Life Of Livia

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 320 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Empress of Rome is a brand-new biography of one of the most fascinating, perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient the empress Livia. 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 sons 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. He depicts a complex, courageous and richly gifted woman whose true crime was not was not murder but the exercise of power, and who, in a male-dominated society, had the energy to create for herself both a prominent public profile and a significant sphere of political influence.

ISBN: 9781849161107