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Joseph McCabe. The Empresses of Rome
The Empresses of Rome
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. THE MAKING OF AN EMPRESS
CHAPTER II. THE END OF THE GOLDEN AGE
Footnote
CHAPTER III. THE WIVES OF CALIGULA
CHAPTER IV. VALERIA MESSALINA
CHAPTER V. THE MOTHER OF NERO
CHAPTER VI. THE WIVES OF NERO
CHAPTER VII. THE EMPRESSES OF THE TRANSITION
CHAPTER VIII. PLOTINA
CHAPTER IX. SABINA, THE WIFE OF HADRIAN
CHAPTER X. THE WIVES OF THE STOICS
CHAPTER XI. THE WIVES OF THE SYBARITES
CHAPTER XII. JULIA DOMNA
CHAPTER XIII. IN THE DAYS OF ELAGABALUS
CHAPTER XIV. ANOTHER SYRIAN EMPRESS
CHAPTER XV. ZENOBIA AND VICTORIA
CHAPTER XVI. THE WIFE AND DAUGHTER OF DIOCLETIAN
CHAPTER XVII. THE FIRST CHRISTIAN EMPRESSES
CHAPTER XVIII. THE WIVES OF CONSTANTIUS AND JULIAN
CHAPTER XIX. JUSTINA
CHAPTER XX. THE ROMANCE OF EUDOXIA AND EUDOCIA
CHAPTER XXI. THE LAST EMPRESSES OF THE WEST
Footnote
INDEX
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Joseph McCabe
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The domestic life of Livia and Octavian lost none of its plainness after the attainment of supreme power. Some time after the Senate had (27 B.C.) strengthened his position by inventing for him the title of “Augustus”—a title by which he is generally, but improperly, described in history after that date3—he removed from the small house which his father had left him to a larger mansion, built by the orator Hortensius, on the Palatine. This was burned down in the year 6 B.C., and the citizens built a new palace for Livia and Octavian by public subscription. At the Emperor’s command the contribution of each was limited to one denarius. If we may trust the archæologists, it was modest in size, but of admirable taste, especially in the marble lining of its interior. On one side it looked down, over the steep slope of the hill, on the colonnaded space, the Forum, in which the life of Rome centred. On the other side it faced a group of public buildings, raised by Octavian, which impressed the citizens with his liberality in the public service. The splendid temple of Apollo, the public library and other buildings, adorned with the most exquisite works of art that his provincial expeditions had brought to Rome, stood in fine contrast to his own plain mansion, of which the proudest decoration was the faded wreath over the door—the Victoria Cross of the Roman world—which bore witness that he had saved the life of a citizen.
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