The women of the Caesars

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

BY

GUGLIELMO FERRERO

NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. MCMXI

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 Virgins - Bust, Supposed to be of Antonia, Daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia, and Mother of Germanicus, in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence - Caligula - A Bronze Sestertius (Slightly Enlarged), Showing the Sisters of Caligula (Agrippina, Drusilla, and Julia Livilla) on One Side and Germanicus on the Other Side - A Bronze Sestertius with the Head of Agrippina the Elder, Daughter of Agrippa and Julia, the Daughter of Augustus - Claudius, Messalina, and Their Two Children in What is Known as the "Hague Cameo" - Remains of the Bridge of Caligula in the Palace of the Caesars - The Emperor Caligula - Claudius - The Emperor Claudius - Messalina, Third Wife of Claudius - The Philosopher Seneca - The Emperor Nero - Agrippina the Younger, Sister of Caligula and Mother of Nero - Britannicus - Statue of Agrippina the Younger, in the Capitoline Museum, Rome - Agrippina the Younger - The Emperor Nero - The Death of Agrippina

WOMEN OF THE CAESARS

I. WOMAN AND MARRIAGE IN ANCIENT ROME

II. LIVIA AND JULIA

III. THE DAUGHTERS OF AGRIPPA

IV. TIBERIUS AND AGRIPPINA