Tacitus reports a legal case involving Lucius Piso to demonstrate that Urgulania, by virtue of being this womanâs friend, was above the law.
This woman was the granddaughter of the first man in Rome to fatten peacocks for sale, Marcus Aufidius Lurco. Tacitus reports a legal case involving Lucius Piso to demonstrate that Urgulania, by virtue of being this womanâs friend, was above the law. Her eldest son was a talented general whose troops erected a cenotaph, found in present-day Mainz, when he died after falling from his horse while fighting the Marcomanni. This woman, who was given her own house on the Palatine Hill, was accused of killing her husbandâs nephew, Marcellus. Her husband married her after divorcing Scribonia, and Cassius Dio reports that she was given over in the wedding ceremony by her own former husband, Tiberius Claudius Nero, the father of her younger son, Drusus, and her older son, a future emperor. When her husband died, she was the first woman afforded the honorific âAugusta.â For 10 points, name this mother of Tiberius and wife of Octavian.
This woman was the granddaughter of the first man in Rome to fatten peacocks for sale, Marcus Aufidius Lurco.
Livia Drusilla [or Julia Augusta; prompt on âJuliaâ]