Livia

Livia Drusilla
Julia Augusta
Bust, Musée Saint-Raymond
Roman empress
Tenure	16 January 27 BC – 19 August AD 14
Born	30 January 59 BC[1] Rome, Italy, Roman Republic
Died	AD 29 (aged 87) Rome, Italy, Roman Empire
Burial	Mausoleum of Augustus
Spouses	Tiberius Claudius Nero (43–39 BC) Augustus (38 BC – AD 14)
Issue	Tiberius Nero Claudius Drusus
Dynasty	Julio-Claudian
Father	Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus
Mother	Alfidia

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.

Livia was the daughter of the senator Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus and his wife Alfidia. She married Tiberius Claudius Nero around 43 BC, and they had two sons, Tiberius and Drusus. In 38 BC, she divorced Tiberius Claudius Nero and married the political leader Octavian. The Senate granted Octavian the title Augustus in 27 BC, effectively making him emperor. Livia then became the Roman empress. In this role, she served as an influential confidant of her husband and was rumored to have been responsible for the deaths of a number of Augustus' relatives, including his grandson Agrippa Postumus.

After Augustus died in AD 14, Tiberius became emperor. Livia continued to exert political influence as the mother of the emperor until her death in AD 29. She was the grandmother of the emperor Claudius, great-grandmother of the emperor Caligula, and the great-great-grandmother of the emperor Nero. In AD 42, Livia was deified by Claudius, who acknowledged her title of Augusta.