Livia Drusilla
Livia Drusilla was the third wife and an advisor of the emperor Augustus Caesar. It is said that he fell in love with her at first sight and divorced his old wife quickly just to be with her. She experienced a great amount of power in Rome and unlike most wives she was an advisor of the emperor. Like Cornelia Africana she was the perfect Roman woman. She managed their household, always stayed faithful to her husband and did not wear fancy clothes. She although had powers that most women did not have. She was able to control her own finances, had a statue built in her honor and was always politically active. Following the death of her husband she still remained quite powerful. There was many disagreements between her son and herself due to her ambitious nature. Livia Drusilla eventually passed away in 29 AD.
Agrippina
Agrippina the Younger was the wife of emperor Claudius and the mother of Nero. She was a women who was known for murdering two husbands, displaced a rightful heir and had an affair with her son. She was known for her beauty and for being ruthless, domineering and bloodthirsty. After murdering her second husband she married emperor Claudius. She was a very clever woman as she convinced the emperor to make her son the heir of the thrown instead of Claudius’s son. Following this the emperor mysteriously died after eating a poisoned mushroom. His son was then assassinated at the age of 13. Agrippina ruled alongside her son as his regent. Her last words before she died were “stab here” as this indicated the location where her son Nero was carried in her womb.