Livia Drusilla (Julia Augusta)

Reading notes

• The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §9 Augusta

  Livia, widow of Augustus, Claudius's grandmother, deified by him as Diva Augusta; cited to dignify his own claim.

• Consolation to Marcia §2 Livia

  Livia Drusilla (later Julia Augusta), wife of Augustus and mother of Drusus and Tiberius, whose composed grief is the positive example.

• Consolation to Marcia §4 Julia Augusta

  The honorific name Livia bore after Augustus's death and testamentary adoption; the same woman as the Livia of chapters II–III.

• On Mercy §1.9 Livia

  Augustus's wife and empress (58 BC – AD 29); her counsel to try clemency where severity had failed turns the Cinna episode.