Table of Contents
List of Plates and Maps viii
Foreword x
Introduction 1
1 Virtue, Honour and Chastity 17
2 Age of the Imperators: Cleopatra, Fulvia and Livia 44-31 BC 39
3 Women in the Augustan State: 31 BC-AD 14 58
4 Forging the Future: Livia, Octavia and Julia 27 BC-AD 14 78
5 The Dowager Empress and Matriarch: Livia 14-29 115
6 Impatient for Equality: Agrippina the Elder 29-41 156
7 Self-Destruction: Messalina 4l-8 174
8 The Reign of Agrippina the Younger: Part 1 49-54 204
9 The Reign of Agrippina the Younger: Part 2 54-9 226
10 Murder: Agrippina, Claudia Octavia and Poppaea 59-68 245
11 Epilogue: The Severan and Other Empresses 271
Appendix 1 Key Dates 299
Appendix 2 Family Trees 304
Appendix 3 Key Female Personalities 311
Glossary 318
Notes 325
Select Bibliography 363
Index of Women 369
Index of Emperors 372
General Index 373