Lives & Memoirs
Empresses of Rome
Joseph Martin McCabe
2026
14h 4m$1.99
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Behind every emperor stood a woman with better information. McCabe works through the imperial house from Livia onward, following the marriages, adoptions, poisonings and calculated widowhoods that decided who wore the purple. The empresses of Rome were never decorative, and the record of what they did to take and hold power is stranger than the emperors' own.
Inside this audiobook
27 chapters
- 1Introduction14m
- 2The Making of an Empress (Livia)38m
- 3The End of the Golden Age (Livia and Julia), part 132m
- 4The End of the Golden Age (Livia and Julia), part 223m
- 5The Wives of Caligula (Junia Claudilla, Livia Orestilla, Milonia Caesonia)31m
- 6Valeria Messalina49m
- 7The Mother of Nero (Agrippina the Younger), part 140m
- 8The Mother of Nero (Agrippina the Younger), part 229m
- 9The Wives of Nero (Octavia, Poppaea, Antonia), part 124m
- 10The Wives of Nero (Octavia, Poppaea, Antonia), part 218m
- 11The Empresses of the Transition (Galeria Fundana, Domitia Longina)34m
- 12Plotina33m
- 13Sabina, the wife of Hadrian38m
- 14The wives of the Stoics (Annia Galeria Faustina, Faustina the Younger)39m
- 15The wives of the Sybarites (Lucilla, Crispina,Marcia)36m
- 16Julia Domna33m
- 17On the Days of Elagabalus (Julia Maesa)30m
- 18Another Syrian Empress (Julia Mamaea)25m
- 19Zenobia and Victoria43m
- 20The wife and daughter of Diocletian (Prisca, Valeria)30m
- 21The First Christian Empresses (Helena, Theodora, Constantia, Fausta), part 123m
- 22The First Christian Empresses (Helena, Theodora, Constantia, Fausta), part 228m
- 23The Wives of Constantius and Julian (Galla, Constantina, Eusebia), part 123m
- 24The Wives of Constantius and Julian (Galla, Constantina, Eusebia), part 226m
- 25Justina32m
- 26The Romance of Eudocia and Eudoxia44m
- 27The Last Empresses of the West27m
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