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This is John Batchner. A conversation from next week, preview, with author Emma Southen,

a book, A Rome of One's Own is the story of the women of Rome, from the kingdom to the

Republic, to the Empire, to the Christian antiquity, after Rome was

abandoned by the empire moving to Constantinople.

These are women who were mentioned in the literature, in the legends, but not much written

about.

As Emma says very clearly, you could do a story on Roman dogs and have a longer

book than on Roman women. But she has put together the clues and the remarks and the period of

the women of Rome. And in this instance, she talks of Julia, the only child of survived of Augustus,

and how Augustus controlled her and married her to Marcellus, a cousin, married her to Agrippa, his best

friend, married her Tiberius, his wife's son. In this instance, he marries it to Agrippa,

who you will recall Agrippa was the Admiral of the Fleet that defeated Cleopatra and Marcus

Antony once upon a time before Augustus, when he was Octavian, rose to total control.

A control freak is what we call him in the 21st century.

He marries her to Agrippa, and surprisingly, it works for as long as Agrippa lives.

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