Livia

"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.