McCabe surveys the wives and mothers of the emperors from the making of the first empress, Livia, through the wives of Caligula, Messalina, Agrippina the mother of Nero, Nero’s wives, Plotina and the empresses of the later empire, sifting gossip from history in the ancient sources.
A lively, sceptical popular history that rescues these women from the caricatures of Roman scandal. Download the free EPUB.