This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

This is CBS, I on the World.

I'm John Batchel.

Continuing with Emma Souther, the new book is A Rome of One's Own,

the forgotten women of the Roman Empire. It is now the Roman

empire. The monarchy is gone. The memory of the monarchy pleases Augustus, the emperor.

The republic has gone. The memory of the republic came to this moment when Augustus will

present himself as a man who saves the Republic by making himself

the first among equals, the preencaps. He has a daughter, however, and herein lies a tale.

Emma, this is Julia Caesar Phileas, who becomes when she's 11 years old, born 39 BC, comes when she's 11 years old, Julia

Augusti Philea. Augustus wanted sons. He wanted heirs. He has a daughter who has a mind of her own.

She's very well educated. And then she's married to Marcellus at 13 years old. Why? Marcellus was their cousin. What was Augustus thinking?

He was trying to make a son-in-law. So this is where we go back to that, those stories of the

Sabine women. The closest thing there is to a son is a son-in-law. And he wanted Marcellus to be his

heir. He's the daughter of his sister Octavia.

The daughter, he's the son of his sister Octavia.

And he wanted to make him his heir by making him his son-in-law,

the closest thing he could to his son.

So what he uses Julia for is to marry her to the people

that he wants to be his proxy sons.

In other words, Livy and Dionysius and all the historians have delivered this Augustus, who isn't real.

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