Marble portraits of Empress Livia and Emperor Augustus wearing the characteristic civic crown, preserved in the famous collections of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and Glyptothek in Munich.
The marriage of Livia and Augustus was no different from the other Roman marriages. Livia was an exemplary wife who loved her husband; certainly faithful, which, moreover, is consistent with her impeccable upbringing.
On the other hand, she had a great influence on him. She reportedly brought him to such a state that before talking to her, as suggested by Suetonius, he took notes:
[…] his conversations with individuals and the more important of those with his own wife Livia, he always wrote out and read from a note-book, for fear of saying too much or too little if he spoke offhand.
– Suetonius, Augustus, 84
- Suetonius, Augustus
