Remarkable Early Life Of Livia, Destined To Become Empress And Deified Augusta
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Livia-Drusilla-preview.jpg?itok=dBDUarOY"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Livia-Drusilla-preview.jpg?itok=dBDUarOY" width="610" height="321" alt="Virgil reading the Aeneid to Emperor Augustus, his wife Livia and fainting sister Octavia by Antonio Zucchi (1767) (Public Domain)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p>In 29 AD, Livia, the Empress of Rome and the widow of Emperor Augustus, died at the age of 86. Although she was the mother of
Tiberius, the current Emperor of Rome, and an
Empress through her own marriage to Emperor Augustus, her funeral was very low-key by the standards of the Roman imperial family. When Augustus' sister Octavia died in 11 BC, her funeral oration was delivered by Augustus himself in his capacity as both Octavia’s brother and Emperor of Rome. Drusus, Livia's younger son, then spoke from the rostra in the forum. Drusus and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, Octavia's sons-in-law, carried Octavia’s remains in procession to her final resting place in the Temple of Divus Julius.</p>
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