If there is a message in Anthony Barrett’s scholarly and impeccably researched tome on Caesar Augustus’s wife, Livia, it may be that even the best of historical fiction literature should be taken with a grain of salt. Robert Graves’ novels, I Claudius and Claudius the God are classics, but should not be taken at face […]
Book Review Livia, by Anthony A. Barrett
Filed Under: Ancient Rome, Book Review, Carthage Tagged With: Agrippina the Elder., Anthony A Barrett, Augustus, Germanicus, I Claudius, Livia, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Sian Phillips, Tiberius
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