Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Maps
Introduction
1. Sources
2. The Empresses and Women's Power
3. The Succession to Hadrian
4. The Faustinas as Empresses, 138-75
5. Public and Private in the Dynasty
6. The Deified Faustinas: Association, Assimilation, and Consecration
7. Faustina's Children and the End of the Antonines
Who's Who
Family Trees
Abbreviations
Chronology
Glossary
Bibliography
Indexes
Persons
Places and Peoples (with modern equivalents)
General

About the Author

Barbara M. Levick is Emeritus Fellow and Tutor in Literae Humaniores, St. Hilda's College, Oxford.

Reviews

"Addressing the question whether a biography of the Faustinae is feasible in the light of the casual and often tendentious remarks in the literary sources that - as is common in the study of ancient women - did not focus on them, and the official nature of the numerous statues, inscriptions and coins, she expresses the aim of assessing the relative power and recognition of the Faustinae in comparison to the empresses who preceded and succeeded them. ... Taking
a broad scope, Levick synthesizes a wide range of sources and studies not only on the Faustinae but also on the Antonine emperors, their ancestors and families and their predecessors with their wives
and families. Her vast knowledge of prosopography allows her to knit them all together. ... [Levick's] aim has surely been reached." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review