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{{Short description|Roman empress from 27 BC to AD 14}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Livia Drusilla
| title        = Julia [[List of Augustae|Augusta]]
| image        = File:(Toulouse) Livie Musée Saint-Raymond Ra 340.jpg
| alt          = Marble bust of Livia
| caption      = {{nowrap|Bust, {{lang|fr|[[Musée Saint-Raymond]]|italic=no}}}}
| succession   = [[List of Roman and Byzantine empresses|Roman empress]]
| reign        = 16 January 27 BC{{snd}}{{no wrap|19 August AD 14}}
| consort      = yes
| birth_date   = 30 January 59 BC<ref>{{Cite book|last=Barrett|first=Anthony A.|title=Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2002|isbn=9780300102987|pages=309–310|chapter=Appendix 5: Livia's Birthdate|jstor=j.ctt1nq0jw|chapter-url={{GBurl|94wfJ0-hyaoC|p=309}}}}</ref>
| birth_place  = [[Rome]], Italy, [[Roman Republic]]
| death_date   = AD 29 (aged 87)
| death_place  = Rome, Italy, [[Roman Empire]]
| burial_place = [[Mausoleum of Augustus]]
| spouses      = {{ubl
 | [[Tiberius Claudius Nero (father of Tiberius Caesar)|Tiberius Claudius Nero]] (43–39&nbsp;BC)
 | [[Augustus]] (38&nbsp;BC{{snd}}AD&nbsp;14)}}
| issue        = {{ubl
 | [[Tiberius]]
 | [[Nero Claudius Drusus]]
}}
| dynasty      = [[Julio-Claudian dynasty|Julio-Claudian]]
| father       = [[Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus]]
| mother       = [[Alfidia]]
}}

'''Livia Drusilla''' (30 January 59&nbsp;BC{{snd}}
AD&nbsp;29) was [[List of Roman and Byzantine empresses|Roman empress]] from 27&nbsp;BC to AD&nbsp;14 as the wife of [[Augustus]], the first [[Roman emperor]]. She was known as '''Julia Augusta''' after her formal [[Adoption in ancient Rome|adoption]] into the [[Julia gens|Julia ''gens'']] in AD&nbsp;14.

Livia was the daughter of senator [[Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus]] and his wife [[Alfidia]]. She married [[Tiberius Claudius Nero (father of Tiberius Caesar)|Tiberius Claudius Nero]] around 43&nbsp;BC, and they had two sons, [[Tiberius]] and [[Nero Claudius Drusus|Drusus]]. In 38&nbsp;BC, she divorced Tiberius Claudius Nero and married the political leader Octavian. The Senate granted Octavian the title ''[[Augustus (title)|Augustus]]'' in&nbsp;27 BC, effectively making him emperor. In her role as Roman empress, Livia served as an influential confidant to her husband and was rumored to have been responsible for the deaths of several of his relatives, including his grandson [[Agrippa Postumus]].

After Augustus died in AD&nbsp;14, Tiberius was elevated, and Livia continued to exert political influence as the mother of the emperor until her death in AD&nbsp;29. She was grandmother of the emperor [[Claudius]], great-grandmother of the emperor [[Caligula]], and great-great-grandmother of the emperor [[Nero]]. Livia was [[Roman imperial cult|deified]] by Claudius in AD&nbsp;42, bestowing her the title ''Diva [[List of Augustae|Augusta]]''.