The Empresses of Rome

The Empresses of Rome
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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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