triple triumph celebration (29 BC)
victory against Antony at battle of Mutina
wealth of and property owned
will
writing of autobiography
Aurelia (Julius Caesar’s mother)
Baiae
Balbus, Marcus Atius
birthrate
Bona Dea Subsaxana, Temple of
Brutus, Decimus
Caecilia Attica
Caecilia Metella
Caelius Rufus, Marcus
Caesar, Julius
and Augustus
and Cleopatra
divine status of
eminence of
murder of
will
Caligula, Gaius (emperor)
Calpurnia
Cassius
Catiline Conspiracy
Cato the Censor
Cato the Younger
Catullus, Gaius Valerius
childbirth
father’s attendance at
children, Roman
centrality of to marriage
limited number born to families
mortality rates
relationship with parents
Cicero
buying of Marcus’s garden
and Caesar
and daughter’s marriage
dispute with Clodius
on Augustus
on Nero
Second Philippic
victim of Proscriptions
Circus Flaminius
Claudia (daughter of Clodius Pulcher)
Claudia Quinta
Claudii
Claudius, Appius
Claudius Caecus, Appius
Claudius, Emperor
Claudius Pulcher, Appius
Clausis, Attius
Cleopatra VII, Queen
and Antony
commits suicide
divine status of in Egypt
transformation of Roman percepion of and contrasting of to Livia by Augustus
Cleopatra Selene (daughter of Antony and Cleopatra)
Clivus Victoriae (Rome)
Clodia Metelli
Clodius Pulcher, Publius
conception, theories of
concordia
Corinthian bronze
Cornelia of the Gracchi
Cornelia (Pompey’s wife)
Cornelia (stepdaughter of Augustus)
Cotta Maximus
Crassus
cubiculum
Cybele (goddess)
deliciae
depositio barbae
dies lustricus
Dio, Cassius
Roman History
Diodorus Siculus
dispensator
Doryphoros
dowry
Drusus (Claudius Drusus Nero, Livia’s younger son)
birth
death
early years and education
funeral
and Gaul campaign
marriage to Antonia Minor
senatorial career
Drusus the Younger
education, Roman
Eleusinian Mysteries
Eleusis
epidemics
Etna, eruption of
fashion
Feast of the Divine Twelve
First Triumvirate
Fortuna Muliebris, Temple of
Forum of Augustus
Forum Julium
Fulvia (Antony’s wife)
Fundanius
Fundi
Gaius Caesar
adoption of as heir by Augustus
death
Gallus, Asinius
Gaul campaign
Gellius, Aulus
Athenian Nights
Germanicus
death
marriage to Agrippina
Gibbon, Edward
Glaucia (slave)
Graves, Robert
I, Claudius
Gytheum
Herod the Great
Hispania Ulterior
homosexuality
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Odes
Hortensius Hortalus, Quintus
houses, Roman
I, Claudius (tv series)
imagines maiorum
infant mortality
Ionian League
Isis cult
jewellery
Judaea
Julia (Agricola’s mother)
Julia (Augustus’s daughter)
banishment to Pandateria by Augustus
death
marriage to Agrippa and birth of children
marriage to Marcellus
marriage to Tiberius
popularity of in Rome
relationship with Livia
sexual misdemeanours and fall from grace
Julia (Caesar’s sister)
Julia Livilla (daughter of Germanicus)
Julia the Younger
Julians
Juno Sospita, cult of
Juvenal
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)
Laelia
lead poisoning
Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius
expulsion from Triumvirate
member of Second Triumvirate
storming of house by of pro-Clodian plebs
Leptis Magna (Libya)
lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis
lex Iulia de maritandis ordinibus
Lex Papia Poppaea
Libo, Marcus Livius Drusus
Licinia (wife of Cato the Elder)
life expectancy
Livia, Empress of Rome
Early Years and Marriage to Tiberius Claudius Nero birth
birth of Drusus
birth of Tiberius
childhood and upbringing
divorce from Nero
education
engagement to Nero
as fugitive during Nero’s flight
marriage to and relationship with Nero
return to Rome after husband’s flight
surrenders children to Nero after divorce
wedding to Nero and ceremonies
Marriage to Augustus
ambitions for Tiberius and promoting cause of
and Augustus’s affairs
bestowing of sacrosanctity on to by Augustus
charity activities
contrasting of image with Cleopatra by Augustus
courtship and engagement
and death of Augustus
dependence on survival of
divine status of and road to deification
dress and championing of the stola
eastern tour with Augustus
failure to conceive and stillbirth of third pregnancy
friendship with Salome of Judaea and bequest of three cities of Judaea from
household management
and ill health of Augustus
influence on Augustus
influence and power
involvement in Augustus’s adoption of Tiberius as heir
and Julia’s downfall
and marriage of Drusus to Antonia
and marriage of Tiberius to Julia
maternal ambitions
maternal role
murder of Augustus allegations
as personification of Augustus’s concept of exemplary womanhood and moral regeneration of Rome
pleads Tiberius’s case to Augustus during Tiberius’s absence in Rhodes
poisoning of Marcellus allegation
portraits of
recognizes restrictions of position
relationship with Augustus
relationship with Julia
relationship with Octavia
religious activities
restoration of shrines and temples in Rome
suspected of murdering Agrippa Postumus
suspected of murdering Gaius and Lucius Caesar
and Tiberius’s marriage to Vipsania
and Tiberius’s self-imposed exile to Rhodes
tour of provinces with Augustus
Life after Death of Augustus
adoption of as daughter by Augustus in will
appointed Augustus’s priestess by Senate
and Augustus’s funeral
banishment to the Black Sea
and death of Germanicus
granting of ‘Augusta’ title by Augustus
honours bestowed on
illness
and Piso/Plancina trials
refusal by Tiberius to take ‘son of Julia’ appellation on accession
relationship with son (Tiberius)
and Tiberius’s accession
wealth and land holdings
Personal Life
ancestry and family background
appearance and beauty of
cameos of
cultivation of laurels and poultry
and death of Drusus
decorative murals at villa
depiction of in I, Claudius
fondness of gardening
funeral
indulgence in Pucine wine
intellect
long life and robust health
and nodus hairstyle
only-child status
posthumous deification of
reuniting of with sons after Nero’s death
vilification of by ancient sources
villa and gardens at Prima Porta
wealth
will
Livia (great-aunt)
Liviana figs
Livii Drusi
Livilla
Livius Drusus, Marcus
Livius Drusus Claudianus, Marcus(Livia’s father)
adoption of a son
death
finances
marriage to Alfidia
opposition to forces loyal to Caesar’s memory
politics
praetorship
proscribed
selling of garden to Cicero
wealth of
Livy
Lollia Paulina
Longus, Lucilius
loom, Roman
Lucius Antonius
Lucius Caesar (son of Julia)
death
Lucretius
Lupercalian Festival
Macrobius
Maecenas
Marcella (Octavia’s daughter)
Marcellus (Octavia’s son)
death
favouring of by Augustus as heir
funeral
marriage to Julia
rivalry with Agrippa
rumours over Livia committing murder of
Marcia
Marius, Gaius
marriage, Roman
age of girls
arrangement of aristocratic
centrality of children to concept of
childlessness as source of acrimony in
wedding ceremony
Mars Ultor, Temple of
Martial
Messalla, Vipstanus
Metella, Caecilla
Metellus Celer, Quintus
Misenum, Treaty of (39 BC)
mortality rates, children
motherhood, Roman
Munatia
Murena, Lucius Licinius
Musa, Antonius
Musonius Rufus, Gaius
Mutina, battle of
Nepos, Cornelius
Nero, Emperor
Nero, Tiberius Claudius (Livia’s first husband)
allegiance to Antony and active opposition to Augustus
and Caesar
career
character
Cicero on
death and funeral
divorce from Livia and her remarriage to Augustus
engagement to Livia
flight of and life as a fugitive
marriage to and relationship with Livia
politics
praetorship
and proscripti list
return to Rome after flight
Nestor of Tarsus
Nicolaus of Damascus
Nicostratus
On Marriage
nodus hairstyle
Obodas, King
Octavia (Augustus’s sister)
adoption of nodus hairstyle
and ambition for son (Marcellus)
bestowing of sacrosanctity by Augustus on
death and funeral
and death of Marcellus
and marriage of Julia to Marcellus
marriage to Antony
relationship with Augustus
relationship with Livia
Octavian see Augustus (emperor) Octavii
Octavius, Gaius (father of Augustus)
Oppian Law
Ostia
Ovid
Ars Amatoria
Fasti
Pannonia
parenthood, Roman
Parthians
Roman campaign against
paterfamilias
Patrician and Plebian Chastity, cults of
Pedius
Petronius
Philippi, battle of
Philippus
Philippus (Augustus’s stepfather)
Phillips, Siân
Philo
pietas
Pisaurum
Piso, Gnaeus Calpurnius
Piso/Plancina trials
Planasia
Plautia Urgulania
Plautus
Casina
The Pot of Gold
Pliny the Elder
Natural History
Pliny the Younger
Plutarch
Advice to Bride and Groom
poetry
place of in Augustan court life
Pollio, Romilius
Polybius
Polyclitus
Pompeia (Pompey’s daughter)
Pompey the Great
Porcia
Porticus of Livia
Prima Porta villa
Proculeius, Gaius
Propertius
Proscriptions
Ptolemy
Quintus (Cicero’s son)
Quintillian
religion
religious cults
Res Gestae Divi Augusti (Acts of the Divine Augustus)
Rome
attempt at moral renewal of by Augustus
curtailment of female aspiration
defeat of Republic
disapproval of luxury in
famine
fragmentation of
plague
spread of disease and epidemics in
Romulus and Remus
Saecular Games
Sallust
Conspiracy of Catiline
Salome of Judaea
salutatio
Samos
sardonyx
Scipio Aemilianus, Publius Cornelius (also known as Scipio Africanus)
Scipio Nasica, Publius Cornelius
Scribonia
Scribonius Libo, Lucius
Second Punic War
Second Triumvirate
growing divisions
instituting of Proscription
Sextus’s pact with (39 BC)
Sejanus
Semo Sancus, Temple of
Sempronia
Seneca
Servilia
Severus, Aulus Caecina
Sextus Pompey
Shrine of August Concord
Sibylline Books
Sicily
slaves
Social War (90 BC)
Spain
Augustus’s campaign in
Sparta
stola
Strabo
Studius
Suetonius
Sulla (dictator)
Sulla, Lucius Cornelius (son)
Syllaeus
tablinum
Tacitus
Annals
Dialogues
Tennyson, Alfred
Teos
Terentia (wife of Cicero)
Terentia (wife of Maecenas)
Tertullian
Thrasyllus
Tiber
Tiberius, Emperor
abandons Rome for second retirement on Capri
accession as emperor
accompanies Augustus to provinces and campaigns involved in
adoption of by Augustus as heir
awards from Senate
birth of
childhood and upbringing
education
eulogy to father
holds consulship
houses of
Livia’s ambition for and promotion of cause
marriage to Julia
marriage to Vipsania and love for
opposition to role of women in public life
policy of quashing cult fervour
privileges granted to by Augustus
refrains from using ‘Augustus’ title
refusal of appellation ‘son of Julia’ on accession
relationship with Augustus
relationship with mother
return to Rome after exile and retirement from public life
rites of passage
self-imposed exile in Rhodes
senatorial career
Tigranes, King
toga praetexta
toga virilis
Tremiti Islands
triclinium
Triumvirate
First
Second see Second Triumvirate
Tubero, Quintus
Tullia (Cicero’s daughter)
Tutia
Twelve Tables
Valerius Maximus
Valerius (tribune)
Varro, Marcus Terentius
Velleius Paterculus
Venus Genetrix
Venus Genetrix, Temple of
Vestal Virgins
Via Appia
Vipsania Agrippina (daughter of Agrippa)
birth of son
marriage to Tiberius
portrait of
relations with Livia
Virgil
Aeneid
Georgics
virtus
Vitruvius
De Architectura
weaving, household
wet-nursing
Wicar, Jean-Baptiste Joseph
women
and Augustan legislation
and education
and religion
restrictions on and exclusion from political life
role of in Rome’s wellbeing
seen as intellectually and temperamentally different from men
statues of
supervisory role in children’s education
wanting reform of the Oppian Law
and weaving
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