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  2. List of Augustae - Wikipedia

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    Augusta was a Roman imperial honorific title given to empresses and women of the imperial families. It was the feminine form of Augustus. In the third century, Augustae could also receive the titles of Mater Senatus ("Mother of the Senate"), Mater Castrorum ("Mother of the Camp"), and Mater Patriae ("Mother of the Fatherland"). The title implied the greatest prestige. [clarify] Augustae could ...

  3. Livia - Wikipedia

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    Livia Drusilla (30 January 59 BC – AD 29) was Roman empress from 27 BC to AD 14 as the wife of Augustus, the first Roman emperor.She was known as Julia Augusta after her formal adoption into the Julia gens in AD 14.

  4. Category:Wives of Augustus - Wikipedia

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    The wives of the Roman emperor Augustus (reigned 27 BC-14 AD). Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. L. Livia (1 C, 11 P)

  5. List of Roman and Byzantine empresses - Wikipedia

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    27 BC – AD 14), as wife of Augustus, was the first and longest-reigning empress. The term Roman empress usually refers to the consorts of the Roman emperors, the rulers of the Roman Empire. The duties, power and influence of empresses varied depending on the time period, contemporary politics and the personalities of their husband and themselves.

  6. List of distinguished Roman women - Wikipedia

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    Valeria, the name of the women of the Valeria gens. Valeria, first priestess of Fortuna Muliebris in 488 BC [1]; Aemilia Tertia (с. 230 – 163 or 162 BC), wife of Scipio Africanus and mother of Cornelia (see below), noted for the unusual freedom given her by her husband, her enjoyment of luxuries, and her influence as role model for elite Roman women after the Second Punic War.

  7. Octavia the Younger - Wikipedia

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    Virgil reading Aeneid, Book VI, to Augustus and Octavia, by Taillasson. In 35 BC, Augustus accorded a number of honours and privileges to Octavia, and also to his wife, Livia – previously unheard of for women in Rome. They were granted sacrosanctitas, meaning it was illegal to verbally insult them. Previously, this had only been granted to ...

  8. Augustus - Wikipedia

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    Many consider Augustus to be Rome's greatest emperor; his policies certainly extended the empire's life span and initiated the celebrated Pax Romana or Pax Augusta. The Roman Senate wished subsequent emperors to "be more fortunate than Augustus and better than Trajan". Augustus was intelligent, decisive, and a shrewd politician, but he was not ...

  9. Julia the Younger - Wikipedia

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    About 5 BC or 6 BC, Augustus arranged for her to marry Lucius Aemilius Paullus. [2] Paullus had a family relation to her as her half first-cousin, as both had Scribonia as grandmother: Julia's mother was a daughter of Scribonia by Augustus; Paullus' mother, Cornelia, was a daughter of Scribonia resulting from her earlier marriage to Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus.