Agrippina began her quest for power by persuading Claudius to bring back Seneca from exile so that he could become tutor to her own son, Nero, the boy she planned to make an emperor. Gradually ...

He was the son of Tiberius Claudius Nero, a Roman senator from an old Patrician family who had served under Julius Caesar, ...

Tiberius knew he was not first choice ... She persuaded Claudius to disinherit his own son. She then murdered Claudius. Now Nero was emperor. Again, a good start soon gave way to a darker side ...

Explores the history of the Roman Empire through the eyes of Empress Livia Drusilla, examining the reign of her husband Augustus, as well as the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero.