# Livia Drusilla — The Lives of the Caesars character guide

> Livia Drusilla in The Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Livia, Drusilla, Livia Drusilla, Livia Augusta, Augusta

**First appearance:** 0001-book-ii-the-deified-augustus

## Who they are

Augustus's wife and Rome's first empress, a shrewd political operator whose devotion to dynasty shaped — and shadowed — every Julio-Claudian who followed.

## In the story

### [Book II: The Deified Augustus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lives_of_the_caesars_se/chapters/book-ii-the-deified-augustus)

Augustus's wife, mentioned in the context of his family and household.

### [Book III: Tiberius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lives_of_the_caesars_se/chapters/book-iii-tiberius)

Mother of Tiberius; may have written the letter ordering Agrippa's death in Augustus's name.

### [Book VII: Galba—Otho—Vitellius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lives_of_the_caesars_se/chapters/book-vii-galba-otho-vitellius)

Livia Augusta, to whose favour Galba owed great influence. She left him the largest bequest among her legatees, fifty million sesterces, but Tiberius reduced it.

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