marble relief

6. Dedication to the deified Augusta (Livia), circa AD 50 54, from the Porticus at Herculaneum. W. 67cm. 7. A 50cm section of the Marble Plan of Rome, circa AD 203 11, showing a plan of the now lost Porticus of Livia. Dedicated in 7 BC, it was a complex containing a temple, colonnades, a library and schools. 8. Detail of a marble panel from the north processional frieze of the Ara Pacis in Rome, commissioned in 13 BC and dedicated in 9 BC. It shows Agrippa (left) and probably Julia (right). Beween them is their son Gaius, the grandson of Augustus. H. circa 1.6m.

Roman women: following the female line

Guy de la Bédoyère tracks the Roman women who were held in high esteem because they exemplified the virtues of the state and thereby ensured the succession of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.