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Livia
Livia Drusilla (30 January 59 BC AD 29) was Roman empress from 27 BC to AD 14 as the wife of Augustus, the first Roman emperor. She was known as Julia Augusta after her formal adoption into the Julia gens in AD 14.
Agrippina the Elder
Member of Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 14 BC–AD 33)
Julia the Elder
daughter of Emperor Augustus (39 BC – AD 14)
Musa of Parthia
Italian consort of Phraates IV
Octavia the Younger
sister of Roman emperor Augustus
Antonia Minor
youngest daughter of Octavia Minor and Mark Antony
Aurelia
mother of Julius Caesar
Atia
mother of Roman emperor Augustus
Antonia Major
eldest daughter of Octavia Minor and Mark Antony
Livilla
Claudia Livia (Classical Latin: CLAVDIA•LIVIA; – AD 31) was the only daughter of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor and sister to Roman Emperor Claudius and general Germanicus, and thus paternal aunt of emperor Caligula and maternal great-aunt of emperor Nero, as well as the niece and daughter-in-law of Tiberius. She was named after her grandmother, Augustus' wife Livia Drusilla, and commonly known by her family nickname Livilla ("little Livia"). She was born after Germanicus and before Claudius.
Fulvia
Fulvia (; ) was an aristocratic Roman woman who lived during the late Roman Republic. Fulvia's birth into an important political dynasty facilitated her relationships and, later on, marriages to Publius Clodius Pulcher, Gaius Scribonius Curio, and Mark Antony. All of these men would go on to lead increasingly promising political careers as populares, tribunes, and supporters of Julius Caesar.
Julia
daughter of Julius Caesar and Cornelia
Julia the Younger
daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder (19 BC-c. 29 AD)
Vipsania Agrippina
first wife of Emperor Tiberius
Calpurnia
widow of Julius Caesar
Sulpicia
Sulpicia is believed to be the author, in the first century BCE, of six short poems (some 40 lines in all) written in Latin which were published as part of the corpus of Albius Tibullus's poetry (poems 3.13–18). She is one of the few female poets of ancient Rome whose work survives.
Scribonia
Roman noblewoman, second wife of Augustus and mother of Julia the Elder
Servilia
mistress of Julius Caesar and mother of his killer Marcus Brutus
Pompeia
wife of Julius Caesar
Domitia Lepida Minor
mother of Roman empress Messalina
Claudia
1st-century BC Roman woman, briefly wife of Octavian
Julia Minor
sister of Julius Caesar, and grandmother of Augustus
Julia
wife of Gaius Marius
Julia
mother of Mark Antony
Aemilia Lepida
first great-grandchild of Roman emperor Augustus
Porcia
daughter of Cato the Younger, wife of Brutus
Clodia
wife of Metellus Celer
Iaia
thumb|15th-century portrayal of Iaia from a French translation of De mulieribus claris. thumb|Michel Corneille the Younger, Lala of Cyzicus Painting, Palace of Versailles, 1672 Iaia of Cyzicus (), sometimes (incorrectly) called Lala or Lalla, or rendered as Laia or Maia, was a Greek painter born in Cyzicus, Roman Empire, and relatively exceptional for being a woman artist and painting women's portraits. She was alive during the time of Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC). In De Mulieribus Claris, his book of women's biographies, Boccaccio refers to her as "Marcia," possibly confusing her with t
Claudia Marcella Major
1st-century BC daughter of Octavia Minor
Terentia
Terentia (; 98 BC – AD 6) was the wife of the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero. She was instrumental in Cicero's political life both as a benefactor and as a fervent activist for his cause.
Hortensia
1st century BC female Roman orator
Domitia
aunt of the Emperor Nero
Berenice
daughter of Salome I and Aristobulus IV
Claudia Marcella Minor
paternal grandmother of empress Messalina
Junia Tertia
daughter of Servilia, wife of Gaius Cassius Longinus
Claudia Pulchra
great-niece of emperor Augustus, wife of Varus
Cornificia
Cornificia (c. 85 BCc. 40 BC) was a Roman poet and writer of epigrams of the 1st century BC.
Octavia the Elder
half-sister of Roman emperor Augustus
Cornelia Metella
widow of Pompey
Aemilia Scaura
second wife of Pompey
Attica
first wife of Marcus Agrippa
Lesbia
right|thumb|Lesbia and Her Sparrow (Catullus 2), by Sir [[Edward John Poynter]]
Julia Major
eldest sister of Julius Caesar
Cornelia
stepdaughter of emperor Augustus
Tullia
daughter of Cicero and Terentia
Caecilia Metella Dalmatica
wife of Sulla
Antistia
first wife of Pompey the Great
Mucia Tertia
third wife of Pompey
Pompeia Magna
daughter of Pompey
Alfidia
Alfidia was the mother of Rome's first empress, Livia. She is mistakenly called Aufidia by Suetonius, and this was assumed to be her name for centuries, but inscriptions found show that her name was the rare nomen Alfidia.
Vipsania Marcella Major
1st-century BC Roman noblewoman
Volumnia Cytheris
ancient Roman courtesan, mistress of Cornelius Gallus, Mark Antony and Brutus
Valeria Messalla
wife of Sulla, Roman dictator
Sempronia
1st century BC woman, wife of Decimus Brutus, stepmother of Brutus Albinus
Livia
mother of Cato the Younger (c. 120–c. 92 BC)
Caecilia Metella
female personality of ancient Rome, daughter of Clodia and Metellus
Mummia Achaica
mother of a Roman emperor Galba
Fausta Cornelia
daughter of the Roman dictator Sulla
Antonia
wife of Pythodoros of Tralles
Junia Secunda
daughter of Servilia, wife of Lepidus