#livilla suffered just the same fate as julia and agrippina: julio-claudian woman who was too independent and was punished for it

[markantonys]

I saw how you mentioned Livilla. Wasn’t she killed by her mother Antonia minor since she was a murderer. She killed her husband alongside her lover Sejanus. She also was part of the exile of her sister in law, Agrippina the elder. Tbh I hate Livilla, she was a crazy person who enjoyed murdering people

first of all there's no way of knowing whether livilla ACTUALLY killed her husband or whether it was just period-typical "bitches be crazy" accusations (much like those slung at livia). after all, her husband was tiberius's heir and thus livilla would've been a shoe-in for next empress of rome and her son for emperor after drusus, so why would she risk it all to kill drusus, marry a guy who was a huge step down status-wise, and hope sejanus would be able to finagle his way into the line of succession? if she really was as ambitious and powerhungry as ancient writers claim, then there's no way she would've done something like that. plus, drusus's death was regarded as due to natural causes at the time, and only 10 years later was livilla accused of poisoning him - by sejanus's wife right after his downfall and their children's brutal murders, and she could easily have just blamed livilla for sejanus divorcing her and her children's deaths and her family's disgrace, and was trying to take livilla down with her.

second of all, me @ all crazy roman women who enjoyed murdering people

#livilla suffered just the same fate as julia and agrippina: julio-claudian woman who was too independent and was punished for it #but the pro-julian anti-claudian agenda of the historical record ensured livilla was remembered as a villain and the others as victims #answered #anonymous