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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.
The Temple of Augustus and Livia in Vienne, late 1st century BC. After the death of Agrippa in 12 BC, a solution had to be found in maintaining Rome's water supply system. This came about because it was overseen by Agrippa when he served as aedile, and was even funded by him afterwards when he was a private citizen paying at his own expense.
Livia Drusilla, wife of the emperor Augustus.. The gens Livia was an illustrious plebeian family at ancient Rome.The first of the Livii to obtain the consulship was Marcus Livius Denter in 302 BC, and from his time the Livii supplied the Republic with eight consuls, two censors, a dictator, and a master of the horse.
I, Claudius follows the history of the early Roman Empire, narrated by the elderly Roman Emperor Claudius, from the year 24 BC to his death in AD 54. The series opens with Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome, attempting to find an heir, and his wife, Livia, plotting to elevate her son Tiberius to this position.
Augustus tells his wife Livia that in lieu of becoming a dictator he wants to become a Roman god−meaning that he won't step down as the commander in chief. Gaius asks Agrippa to resign as second consul so they might offer Piso the position to placate the old republican faction in the senate. Meanwhile a bitter enmity is forming between Livia ...
When asked about the Sky series Domina re-examining the role of Emperor Augustus’s wife Livia as a powerful political player who was behind a lot of deaths of their rivals, Dame Mary said there ...
The Temple of Augustus and Livia is a Roman peripteral sine postico [footnotes 1] hexastyle Corinthian temple built at the beginning of the 1st century, which was in the center of the ancient city of Vienne, also corresponding to the center of the modern city, in the French department of Isère and the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
The Portico of Livia (Porticus Liviae) was a portico in Regio III Isis et Serapis of ancient Rome. It was built by Augustus in honour of his wife Livia Drusilla and is located on the Esquiline Hill. Although little of its structure survives now, it was one of the most prominent porticos in the ancient city.