Livia Drusilla: The Most Powerful Woman in Rome
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Are Women Maligned by Early Roman History?
The wives of emperors have often been painted as villains, and livia was just the first to get such treatment. Legend has it that when augustus was close to death, he would only eat figs he picked from the tree himself. Tiberius became so fed up with his mother that he left rome entirely and moved to the island of capri.
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