Livia’s husband Tiberius Claudius Nero agreed not only to a rapid divorce but also to give Livia away when she married Octavian in 38 BC. If you valued your life you didn’t argue with the emperor.
Octavian was the great-nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar, who had appointed him his heir in his will. She caught the eye of Octavian – the future Emperor Augustus (27 BC-14 AD) – who apparently fell in love with her on the spot. Despite being six months pregnant with a second son, a chance meeting changed her life forever. Born in 58 BC into a wealthy noble Roman family – beautiful, intelligent, married with a son and another on the way – everything in her life was proceeding as it should to all intents and purposes. Twenty-year-old Livia Drusilla must have considered herself lucky. Everything in the Garden's Lovely: Discovering Empress Livia’s country retreat in Rome.
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