Livia

the suppression of individual freedom and humanity, by the women in Indra changing how they look through technological devices. The city of Indra demands all women receive beauty implantations. It is evident that beauty is critical in Indra once Livia says, " Marius is a mere five foot two, a burden for which most Indrithian women would be utterly devastated. Had they not reached five foot eight by the age of thirteen, they would have already partaken of every alteration available. They would have

possession of power can corrupt and alter individuals and society. Both works are set in times of political turbulence, times in which people would seize the opportunity to gain absolute power or at least an upper hand over others. In I, Claudius, Livia, Claudius’ grandmother, proves to be an incredibly ambitious woman, with the political acumen to match. Before the birth of the Roman Empire, the Second Triumvirate, consisting of Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian (at that time), ruled the

Girl. I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a memoir written by Dr. Livia Bitton-Jackson, a concentration camp survivor, roughly fifty years after World War II. She was previously known as

Julia Augusta Agrippina, or more commonly, Agrippina the Younger was a Roman empress consort and one of the most distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. In her earlier years, Agrippina, as well as her mother and older brother, were remorsly mistreated by Emperor Tiberius, who was only a stepson of Augustus. She would have learned at her mother's knee to despise usurpers who were not direct descendants of Augustus. Historians have long suspected that a childhood spent steeped in fear and

The choice to study Livia Drusilla in depth was an easy decision. One of a few women to gain any sort of power in ancient Rome let alone the status that Livia ended up having near the end of her time. Livia herself is very controversial and is often depicted in one of two ways in most available sources. The first is that she was a very manipulative woman, that her caring housewife appearance and manner was all a façade and that she was responsible for the deaths surrounding the heirs to the throne

up at noon everyday”; to watch Julius Caesar not too far away from The Theater of Pompey along with many other plebeians who put Julius Caesar before their very own jobs.She had come a little later than usual on this particular day .According to Livia as she peered into the doors the Senate she couldn’t believe

Livia Drusilla was born on January 30th 58 BCE in Rome. She was the daughter of Roman noble Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus. Like most women in ancient Rome, she was married at an early age. She married her cousin, Tiberius Claudius Nero, who was of patrician status, at age 16 in 42 BCE. This was around the same time her first son, Tiberius, was born. Her husband fought alongside her father and Julius Caesar’s assassins against Octavian. Even when her father committed suicide at the Battle of Philippi

make decisions that are not best for them. Take Livia, for example. Livia would have been better off choosing the pastry that she could chew on, or the stuffed dog she could play with. But she did not want the things that fit her needs, she wanted the one item that fit mine – my phone. I worried that she would still be confusing the two in twenty years, when it came time to pick a job or a life partner. The situation may have been different if Livia and I were living thousands of years ago in the

Livia tried not to put any thoughts toward her husband's new acquisition. The dark haired man fought like a caged animal and seemed always at the ready to lunge for anyone's throat, with a quiet sort of anger that was hard to detect. She was a bit frightened of him to be sure yet she also was... curious. Where did one find such a creature, thrown into the Abyss and pulled back a changed man? She never asked of the men and women her husband found in the market when they arrived in their service, aside

with. Troubled relationship with his mother, Livia, is a key narrative of the series. Livia is an old widow who lives separately and constantly causes qualms for Tony. After first several sessions, Jennifer Melfi, Tony’s therapist, suggests that Livia’s dysfunctional nature might be the reason for many of Tony’s problems. After hearing that, Tony almost ravages Melfi’s office, but soon afterwards he realizes that she is not wrong. Melfi deduces that Livia has a borderline personality disorder, a serious