1.4 Livia Drusilla (2): The Anti-Cleopatra - a podcast by James Boulton

By marrying Octavian, Livia had married a hugely powerful man - but he was not yet the Emperor. To win control of the Empire, he needed to vilify Antony and Cleopatra - and he used his wife and sister to do it.

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