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Figure from the Portland Vase possibly identified as Octavia

Octavia

Clytie thought to be

based on Antonia,

Townley Collection

British Museum

The Empress Livia with

nodus hairstyle c 30 BC,

British Museum

Livia, the LouvreLivia at the Ara Pacis, Rome

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Livia as a goddess

in the guise of

Juno or Ceres

from Sicily c 40

AD, British

Museum

A cult statue of Livia

represented with sheaf of wheat

and cornucopia C1st AD

Statue of Livia attired in a stola and

palla from Paestum, Madrid Sardonyx cameo of Livia with the

bust of the Divus Augustus, Vienna

Livia and Tiberius

Dupondius depicting Livia as Pietas

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Denarius of Cleopatra and Antony 32-1 BC Asia Minor and Syria,

British Museum

Roman female head sometimes identified as Cleopatra

Roman gems set

with women C1st-

2nd AD: Sardonyx

intaglio of Octavia c

20 BC, Sardonyx

cameo of Agrippina

minor 38 AD, onyx

cameo c 90 AD,

sardonyx Harianic c

130 AD and

Antonine style c 165

AD, British

Museum

Agrippina the mother

of Nero

Coin of Agrippina Drusilla

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Messalina

Surand’s Messalina’s Harvest Feast

Hans Makart's painting of Charlotte Wolter in Adolf Wilbrandt's

tragedy, Arria und Messalina

When Claudius Is Away, Messalina Will Play by A Pigma 1911

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Messalina and a gladiator by Sorolla Toulouse Lautrec

Messalina and Silius by Knüpfer

Messalina with Tiberius

and Caligula in Hell

Peder Severin Krøyer,

Messalina, 1881,

Gothenburg Museum of Art

Death of Messalina by Solimena

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Death of Messalina by Moreau and Lematte

Agrippina Minor

Agrippina with Nero

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Wertheimer Agrippina’s boat sinking

Coypel Nero Ordering the Murder of his Mother

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Waterhouse The Remorse of Nero after the Murder of his Mother Nero pauses for a drink during

the mutilation of his mother’s

body

Calvo Nero with the body of his mother Octavia Nero’s first wife

Muzzioli Octavia’s head brought by Poppaea to Nero

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Poppaea

Statilia Messalina Nero’s

third wife

Domitia Longina wife of

Domitian

Alma Tadema The Triumph

of Titus

Plotina wife of Trajan

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Matidia Augusta niece of Trajan

and mother-in-law of Hadrian

Matidia minor

Vibia Sabina Hadrian’s wife

Faustina the Elder wife of

Antoninus Pius

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Faustina the younger wife of Marcus Aurelius Lucilla wife of Lucius Verus

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Manlia Scantilla wife of

Didius Julianus

Bruttia Crispin wife of Commodus

Julia Domna wife of Septimius Severus

Julia, Septimius and Caracalla

with Geta’s face erased

Julia Soaemias mother of Elagabalus

Julia Maesa sister of Julia Domna

Julia Paula first wife of

Elagabalus

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Aquilia Severa second wife of

Elagabalus

Annia Faustina third wife of

Elagabalus Orbiana wife of Severus Alexander

Caecilia Paulina wife of Maximinus Thrax

Tranquillina wife of Gordian III

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Otacilla Severa wife of Philip the ArabianHerennia Etruscilla wife of Decius

Cornelia Supera wife of Aemilianus

Cornelia Salonina wife of Gallienus

Ulpia Severina wife of Aurelian Magnia Urbica wife of Carus

Maximiana Theodora wife of

Constantius Chlorus

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Helena mother of Constantine

Fausta wife of Constantine

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Galeria Valeria wife of Galerius

Constantia daughter of Constantine

Helena wife of Julian the Apostate

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