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The Empresses of Rome

The Empresses of Rome

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Number of Chapters: 27

Length: 14 hours and 03 minutes

Language: English

The story of Imperial Rome has been told frequently and impressively in our literature, and few chapters in the long chronicle of man’s deeds and failures have a more dramatic quality. The fresh aspect of this familiar story which I propose to consider is the study of the women who moulded or marred the succeeding Emperors. Woman had her part in the making, as well as the unmaking, of Rome. Long before the commencement of our era, the thought and the power of the Roman woman went out into the larger world of public life; and when the Empire is founded, when the control of the State’s mighty resources is entrusted to the hands of a single ruler, the wife of the monarch may share his power, and assuredly shares his interest for us. Roman women were not content to be secluded from the new culture, and could not escape the stimulation of their new world. An inscription found at Lanuvium, where the Empress Livia had a villa, shows that the little provincial town had a curia mulierum, a women’s debating club. The walls of Pompeii, when the shroud of lava had been removed from its scorched face, bore election-addresses signed by women. As single figures and types rising to the luminous height of the throne out of the dark and indistinguishable crowd, they deserve to be passed in review. (Summary taken from the author's introduction)

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Introduction (Julie Burks)
The Making of an Empress (Livia) (Julie Burks)
The End of the Golden Age (Livia and Julia), part 1 (Julie Burks)
The End of the Golden Age (Livia and Julia), part 2 (Julie Burks)
The Wives of Caligula (Junia Claudilla, Livia Orestilla, Milonia Caesonia) (Rhiannon Damon)
Valeria Messalina (Rita Boutros)
The Mother of Nero (Agrippina the Younger), part 1 (Rita Boutros)
The Mother of Nero (Agrippina the Younger), part 2 (Rita Boutros)
The Wives of Nero (Octavia, Poppaea, Antonia), part 1 (jenno)
The Wives of Nero (Octavia, Poppaea, Antonia), part 2 (jenno)
The Empresses of the Transition (Galeria Fundana, Domitia Longina) (Rita Boutros)
Plotina (Rita Boutros)
Sabina, the wife of Hadrian (Felicia Wang)
The wives of the Stoics (Annia Galeria Faustina, Faustina the Younger) (Rita Boutros)
The wives of the Sybarites (Lucilla, Crispina,Marcia) (Rita Boutros)
Julia Domna (Colleen McMahon)
On the Days of Elagabalus (Julia Maesa) (Rita Boutros)
Another Syrian Empress (Julia Mamaea) (Michelle Morales)
Zenobia and Victoria (kadauber)
The wife and daughter of Diocletian (Prisca, Valeria) (Colleen McMahon)
The First Christian Empresses (Helena, Theodora, Constantia, Fausta), part 1 (Rita Boutros)
The First Christian Empresses (Helena, Theodora, Constantia, Fausta), part 2 (Rita Boutros)
The Wives of Constantius and Julian (Galla, Constantina, Eusebia), part 1 (Rita Boutros)
The Wives of Constantius and Julian (Galla, Constantina, Eusebia), part 2 (Rita Boutros)
Justina (Colleen McMahon)
The Romance of Eudocia and Eudoxia (Rita Boutros)
The Last Empresses of the West (Rita Boutros)
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