Women of the Caesars explores what life was like for ordinary women in ancient Rome, and also details the lives of notable women of the time. With chapters devoted to such women as Livia and Julia; Agrippina; the sisters of Caligula; and Agrippina the Younger, mother of Nero, the book is a lively and revealing history of the women who influenced the rulers of ancient Rome.
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Guglielmo Ferrero (1871–1942) was an Italian historian, sociologist, and novelist. Committed to the causes of liberalism, he was active early on in the Italian Socialist Party. Ferrero was placed under house arrest for refusing to leave the country by the fascists and paramilitary Black Shirts. In 1929 he was offered and accepted a professorship in Geneva. His works include the six-volume set of The Greatness and Decline of Rome.