Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome

Overview

Professor Catharine Edwards explores the dramatic story of the women who tasted power in the Roman Empire.

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Episodes

S01E01 The Trailblazers

May 29, 2013 58 min
Series in which Professor Catharine Edwards explores the dramatic story of the women who tasted power in the Roman Empire. In the first programme she looks at the remarkable Livia, wife of the emperor Augustus,...

S01E02 The Rivals

June 5, 2013 59 min
Professor Catharine Edwards explores the dramatic lives of two women at the heart of power in 1st-century imperial Rome. One is Messalina, whose scandalous reputation lives on 2,000 years after her bloody and dramatic death....

S01E03 The Outsiders

June 12, 2013 59 min
Professor Catharine Edwards follows the stories of four very different women across centuries which saw the Roman Empire utterly transformed. Among them are the slave turned imperial consort Caenis, the empress Julia Domna - a...

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Catharine Edwards
Self - Presenter

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