Livia Augusta

Family: Julio-Claudian · Role: great-grandmother · First appears: Caligula 10

Life events

• Livia Augusta died, and Caligula later delivered her funeral oration in the Rostra.(Caligula 10)
  • “in praise of whom, after her decease, though then only a boy, he pronounced a funeral oration in the Rostra.”
• Livia Augusta’s favour helped M. Salvius Otho become a senator.(Otho 1)
  • With: M. Salvius Otho
  • “by the favour of Livia Augusta, in whose house he had his education, was made a senator”

Caligula 10

• younger kin: Caligula (Livia Augusta is identified as Caligula's great-grandmother.) “when she was banished, with his great-grandmother, Livia Augusta”

Caligula 23

• younger kin: Caligula “He called his grandmother Livia Augusta ‘Ulysses in a woman’s dress,’”
• elder kin: Aufidius Lurco “descended, by the mother’s side, from a grandfather who was only one of the municipal magistrates of Fondi; whereas it is certain, from the public records, that Aufidius Lurco held high offices at Rome.”

Otho 1

• protégé: M. Salvius Otho “by the favour of Livia Augusta, in whose house he had his education, was made a senator”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.