Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome

"First-rate."--Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement

Livia--wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius--wielded extraordinary power at the center of Roman politics. In this biography of Livia, the first in English, Anthony A. Barrett sets aside the portrait of a cunning and sinister schemer to reveal Livia as a complex figure whose enduring political influence helped shape Roman government long after her death.