| PAGE | | Introduction | 1 | | CHAP. | | I. | THE MAKING OF AN EMPRESS | 7 | | II. | THE END OF THE GOLDEN AGE | 23 | | III. | THE WIVES OF CALIGULA | 46 | | IV. | VALERIA MESSALINA | 60 | | V. | THE MOTHER OF NERO | 79 | | VI. | THE WIVES OF NERO | 105 | | VII. | THE EMPRESSES OF THE TRANSITION | 122 | | VIII. | PLOTINA | 136 | | IX. | SABINA, THE WIFE OF HADRIAN | 149 | | X. | THE WIVES OF THE STOICS | 163 | | XI. | THE WIVES OF THE SYBARITES | 179 | | XII. | JULIA DOMNA | 194 | | XIII. | IN THE DAYS OF ELAGABALUS | 210 | | XIV. | ANOTHER SYRIAN EMPRESS | 222 | | XV. | ZENOBIA AND VICTORIA | 233 | | XVI. | THE WIFE AND DAUGHTER OF DIOCLETIAN | 250 | | XVII. | THE FIRST CHRISTIAN EMPRESSES | 265 | | XVIII. | THE WIVES OF CONSTANTIUS AND JULIAN | 286 | | XIX. | JUSTINA | 306 | | XX. | THE ROMANCE OF EUDOXIA AND EUDOCIA | 322 | | XXI. | THE LAST EMPRESSES OF THE WEST | 340 | | INDEX | 351 |
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