Livia Drusilla: The Most Powerful Woman in Rome
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Octavian and Livia
Livia was married to a distant cousin by the name of berius claudius nero. Sadly, her family picked the wrong side in the various roman civil wars. Her father sided with julius caesar's assassins and was killed at the battle of philippi. She became pregnant only once with octavian and miscarried. Despite being married for 51 years, they never had a child together. In 35 b c, augustus gave livia the legal right to mend her own money - which most women weren't allowed to do in rome. And yes, marcellus remarried his daughter-in-law Julia after he died from agripp
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