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A Rome of one's own, the forgotten women of the

Roman Empire. I welcome Emma Southert, the author of an extremely witty and careful explication

of what I've never read, the Roman Empire, the Roman Republic,

the Roman monarchy from the point of view of the women who lived and died in it.

This book presents a completely new version of everything you've assumed about where did Julius Caesar come from?

What was the decline and fall of the Roman Empire?

Why did it divide into Constantinople and allow Rome to attenuate so that there were less

than 10,000 people there at one point around a thousand years ago?

Emma, congratulations and a very good evening to you.

We begin in the monarchy, the kingdom, somewhere in the mid-eighth century B.C.E.

ending somewhere in the 6th century B.C.E.

As told by the historian Livy, chiefly, there are other voices, but Livy is a major driver here.

When did Livy write this and who was the audience Livy had in mind? Good evening to you, Emma.

Good evening. Thank you so much for having me. Livie is writing a very long time after the period that

he's writing about. He's writing in the first century

CE. So he's writing in the reign of the first emperor, Augustus, and he is writing for an

audience of people who are being forced to come to terms with the return to monarchy, essentially,

to having one man who is in charge of everything and who is reshaping the Roman Empire around himself.

And Livy is part of a large cultural project, essentially, to write Roman history

so that it leads to Augustus

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