Livia, Empress of Rome : a biography
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Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
x, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Status
Yarnell Public Library - BIO - Biography Collection
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Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011.
Format
Book - Regular Print
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Originally published under title: Empress of Rome. London : Quercus, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-301) and index.
Description
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.
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Dennison, M. (2011). Livia, Empress of Rome: a biography (First U.S. edition.). St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dennison, Matthew. 2011. Livia, Empress of Rome: A Biography. St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dennison, Matthew. Livia, Empress of Rome: A Biography St. Martin's Press, 2011.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Dennison, Matthew. Livia, Empress of Rome: A Biography First U.S. edition., St. Martin's Press, 2011.
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