Livia Empress Of Rome
DOWNLOAD
Download Livia Empress Of Rome PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Livia Empress Of Rome book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Livia Empress Of Rome
DOWNLOAD
Author : Matthew Dennison
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2011-01-18
Livia Empress Of Rome written by Matthew Dennison and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-18 with History categories.
Rome is a subject of endless fascination, and in this new biography of the infamous Empress Livia, Matthew Dennison brings to life a woman long believed to be one of the most feared villainesses of history. 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. The Livia who emerges here is a complex, courageous and gifted woman, and one of the most fascinating and perplexing figures of the ancient world.
Empress Of Rome
DOWNLOAD
Author : Matthew Dennison
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-07-01
Empress Of Rome written by Matthew Dennison and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Empress of Rome is the fascinating biography of one of the most perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient world: 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 son's 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.
Livia The First Empress Of Rome
DOWNLOAD
Author : Juliana Pendleton Moomaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Livia The First Empress Of Rome written by Juliana Pendleton Moomaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
Livia
DOWNLOAD
Author : Anthony A. Barrett
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Livia written by Anthony A. Barrett and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the first biography in English of one of Rome's most famous and infamous women, Livia (58 BC-AD 29), wife of Augustus and mother of Tiberius, who dominated imperial politics for decades.
Julia Augusta
DOWNLOAD
Author : Tracene Harvey
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-05
Julia Augusta written by Tracene Harvey and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-05 with History categories.
Julia Augusta examines the socio-political impact of coin images of Augustus’s wife, Livia, within the broader context of her image in other visual media and reveals the detailed visual language that was developed for the promotion of Livia as the predominant female in the Roman imperial family. The book provides the most comprehensive examination of all extant coins of Livia to date, and provides one of the first studies on the images on Roman coins as gender-infused designs, which created a visual dialogue regarding Livia’s power and gender-roles in relation to those of male members of the imperial family. While the appearance of Roman women on coins was not entirely revolutionary, having roughly coincided with the introduction of images of powerful Roman statesmen to coins in the late 40s BCE, the degree to which Livia came to be commemorated on coins in the provinces and in Rome was unprecedented. This volume provides unique insights into the impact of these representations of Livia, both on coins and in other visual media. Julia Augusta: Images of Rome’s First Empress on the Coins of the Roman Empire will be of great interest to students of women and imperial imagery in the Roman Empire, as well as the importance of visual representation and Roman imperial ideology.
Portraits Of Livia
DOWNLOAD
Author : Elizabeth Bartman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Portraits Of Livia written by Elizabeth Bartman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Art categories.
A study of the influence of the Roman empress Livia's artistic patronage.
Empress Of Rome
DOWNLOAD
Author : Matthew Dennison
language : en
Publisher: Quercus Books
Release Date : 2010
Empress Of Rome written by Matthew Dennison and has been published by Quercus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Empresses categories.
Empress of Rome is a brand-new biography of one of the most fascinating, perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient world: 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 son's 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.
I Am Livia
DOWNLOAD
Author : Phyllis T. Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
I Am Livia written by Phyllis T. Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Rome categories.
"Keen and ambitious, fourteen-year-old Livia Drusilla finds herself suddenly thrust into the perilous world of Roman politics when she overhears the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar--and when she reluctantly agrees to marry a prominent military officer for her family's sake"--back cover.
Empress Of Rome 1 Den Of Wolves
DOWNLOAD
Author : Luke Devenish
language : en
Publisher: Random House Australia
Release Date : 2010-12-01
Empress Of Rome 1 Den Of Wolves written by Luke Devenish and has been published by Random House Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-01 with Fiction categories.
Sex, murder, corruption and intrigue at the dawning of the Roman Empire. It is 44 BC and the rival powers of Rome are driving the republic to a violent end. A soothsayer foretells that the young Tiberius Nero, if he is wed to his cousin, the darkly beautiful Livia Drusilla, will sire four kings of Rome. Fuelled by ambition, Livia devotes her life to fulfilling the prophecy. No crime is too great when destiny beckons. So begins a murderous saga of sex, corruption and obsession at the dawning of the age of emperors. Narrated by the 100-year-old slave Iphicles, Den of Wolves brings to life the great women of imperial Rome – Livia, Julia, Antonia and Agrippina – women who relied on their ambition, instincts and cunning to prosper. In this first book of the dramatic new series Empress of Rome, Luke Devenish superbly recreates these outstanding women who lived in such monstrous times.
Empress Livia Her Life And Character
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ella Kneller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1934
Empress Livia Her Life And Character written by Ella Kneller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1934 with categories.