Livia the elder

Family: Imperial household · Role: Empress · First appears: Annals IV (3)

Life events

Sejanus incited both Livias to portray Agrippina as aspiring to the Empire.(Annals IV (3))
- With: Sejanus Livia the younger Agrippina
- “He therefore chose to attack her another way; to raise alarms from the haughtiness and contumacy of her spirit; to rouse the old hatred of Livia the elder, and the guilty mind of his late accomplice, Livia the younger; that to the Emperor they might represent her”
Livia the younger recruited Julius Posthumus to spread calumnies that made Livia the elder irreconcilable to Agrippina.(Annals IV (3))
- With: Livia the younger Julius Posthumus Mutilia Prisca
- “The young Livia acted in this engagement by crafty calumniators; amongst whom she had particularly chosen Julius Posthumus, a man every way qualified for her purposes; as he was the adulterer of Mutilia Prisca, and thence a confidant of her grandmother's; (for over the mind of the Empress, Prisca had powerful influence) and by their means the old woman, in her own nature tender and anxious of power, was rendered utterly irreconcilable to the widow of her grandson.”

enemies with Agrippina “He therefore chose to attack her another way; to raise alarms from the haughtiness and contumacy of her spirit; to rouse the old hatred of Livia the elder, and the guilty mind of his late accomplice, Livia the younger; that to the Emperor they might represent her ”
younger kin: Livia the younger “to rouse the old hatred of Livia the elder, and the guilty mind of his late accomplice, Livia the younger; that to the Emperor they might represent her ”
younger kin: Agrippina “and by their means the old woman, in her own nature tender and anxious of power, was rendered utterly irreconcilable to the widow of her grandson.”

Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.