Caesars' wives: sex, power, and politics in the Roman Empire

Introduction: I, Claudia

Ulysses in a dress : the making of a Roman first lady

First family : Augustus' women

Family feud : the people's princess and the women of Tiberius's reign

Witches of the Tiber : the last Julio-Claudian empresses

Little Cleopatra : a Jewish princess and the first ladies of the Flavian dynasty

Good empresses : the first ladies of the second century

The philosopher empress : Julia Domna and the Syrian matriarchy

The first Christian empress : women in the age of Constantine

Brides of Christ, daughters of Eve : the first ladies of the last Roman dynasty

Epilogue.