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Title: The Women of the Caesars

Author: Guglielmo Ferrero

Release Date: July 18, 2005 [EBook #16324]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: Livia, the wife of Augustus, superintending the weaving
of robes for her family.]

THE WOMEN OF THE CAESARS

BY

GUGLIELMO FERRERO

NEW YORK

THE CENTURY CO.

MCMXI

Copyright, 1911, by

THE CENTURY CO.

Published, October, 1911

THE DEVINNE PRESS

CONTENTS

I WOMAN AND MARRIAGE IN ANCIENT ROME

II LIVIA AND JULIA

III THE DAUGHTERS OF AGRIPPA

IV TIBERIUS AND AGRIPPINA

V THE SISTERS OF CALIGULA AND THE MARRIAGE OF MESSALINA

VI AGRIPPINA, THE MOTHER OF NERO

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Livia, the Wife of Augustus, Superintending the Weaving of Robes for
her Family . . . _Frontispiece_

A Roman Marriage Custom

Eumachia, a Public Priestess of Ancient Rome

The Forum under the Caesars

The So-called Bust of Cicero

Julius Caesar

The Sister of M. Nonius Balbus

Livia, the Mother of Tiberius, in the Costume of a Priestess

The Young Augustus

The Emperor Augustus

A Silver Denarius of the Second Triumvirate

Silver Coin Bearing the Head of Julius Caesar

The Great Paris Cameo

Octavia, the Sister of Augustus

A Reception at Livia's Villa

Mark Antony

Antony and Cleopatra

Tiberius, Elder Son of Livia and Stepson of Augustus

Drusus, the Younger Brother of Tiberius

Statue of a Young Roman Woman

A Roman Girl of the Time of the Caesars

Costumes of Roman Men, Women, and Children in the Procession of a Peace
Festival

Bust of Tiberius in the Museo Nazionale, Naples

Types of Head-dresses Worn in the Time of the Women of the Caesars

A Roman Feast in the Time of the Caesars

Depositing the Ashes of a Member of the Imperial Family in a Roman
Columbarium

The Starving Livilla Refusing Food

Costume of a Chief Vestal (Virgo Vestalis Maxima)

Remains of the House of the Vestal V