- Title Pages
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Editor’s Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Illustrations
- Rome, <i>Season Two Episode Listing</i>
- Rome, <i>Season Two Cast List</i>
- Introduction
- 1 A Touch Too Cerebral
- 2 Discharging Pullo and Vorenus
- 3 Gangsterism in <i>Rome</i>
- 4 Class, Chaos, and Control in <i>Rome</i>
- 5 Earning Immortality
- 6 The Triumvirate of the Ring in <i>Rome</i>
- 7 Jews and Judaism in Rome
- 8 Revenge and Rivalry in <i>Rome</i>
- 9 Effigies of Atia and Servilia
- 10 Livia, Sadomasochism, and the Anti-Augustan Tradition in <i>Rome</i>
- 11 Windows and Mirrors
- 12 Antony and Atia
- 13 Problematic Masculinity
- 14 <i>Rome</i>, Shakespeare, and the Dynamics of the Cleopatra Reception
- 15 The Rattle of the Sistrum
- 16 Gateways to Vice
- 17 Slashing <i>Rome</i>
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
Livia, Sadomasochism, and the Anti-Augustan Tradition in Rome
Livia, Sadomasochism, and the Anti-Augustan Tradition in Rome
- Chapter:
- (p.128) 10 Livia, Sadomasochism, and the Anti-Augustan Tradition in Rome
- Source:
- Rome Season Two
- Author(s):
Anna McCullough
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
The chapter, “Livia, Sadomasochism, and the Anti-Augustan Tradition in Rome,” by Anna McCullough, demonstrates how the second season of the series Rome deftly echoes the ancient historical sources that are critical of Octavian, later known as Augustus, the first emperor. This chapter reveals how the second season echoes this crucial anti-Augustan tradition by exhibiting graphic scenes of Octavian’s wife, Livia, as sexually dominant and aggressive in bed. The series stages these scenes to signal Livia’s unconventional authority over Octavian in their marriage.
Keywords: Rome, Livia, Octavian, sadomasochism, anti-Augustan tradition
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- Title Pages
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Editor’s Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Illustrations
- Rome, <i>Season Two Episode Listing</i>
- Rome, <i>Season Two Cast List</i>
- Introduction
- 1 A Touch Too Cerebral
- 2 Discharging Pullo and Vorenus
- 3 Gangsterism in <i>Rome</i>
- 4 Class, Chaos, and Control in <i>Rome</i>
- 5 Earning Immortality
- 6 The Triumvirate of the Ring in <i>Rome</i>
- 7 Jews and Judaism in Rome
- 8 Revenge and Rivalry in <i>Rome</i>
- 9 Effigies of Atia and Servilia
- 10 Livia, Sadomasochism, and the Anti-Augustan Tradition in <i>Rome</i>
- 11 Windows and Mirrors
- 12 Antony and Atia
- 13 Problematic Masculinity
- 14 <i>Rome</i>, Shakespeare, and the Dynamics of the Cleopatra Reception
- 15 The Rattle of the Sistrum
- 16 Gateways to Vice
- 17 Slashing <i>Rome</i>
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
