A remarkable woman living in remarkable times, Livia Drusilla married the future emperor Augustus as a young woman in the dog days of the Roman Republic. Augustus was exacting but doting; Livia retained his love and admiration throughout a long marriage, outliving Augustus to see her son Tiberius established as Rome’s new emperor. Her admirers were manifold. So, over time, were her detractors, among them a sceptical Tacitus, who vilified Livia as ‘a good match for the intrigues of her husband and the hypocrisy of her son.
Matthew Dennison is the author of ten critically acclaimed works of non-fiction, described by his publishers as ‘one of Britain’s finest contemporary biographers’. His books, which include ‘Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia’ and a revisiting of Suetonius’s The Twelve Caesars, have been published in more than twenty languages and serialised in newspapers and magazines in Europe and North America. His forthcoming study of the Bloomsbury Group will be published in 2026.
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