List of Roman Women (37 items)report

• Agrippina the Elder (c. 14 BC - AD 33), wife of Germanicus, granddaughter of Augustus, mother of emperor Caligula and Agrippina the Younger (below) (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Agrippina the Younger (1st century), niece and wife of emperor Claudius, mother of emperor Nero; held up as a bad example. (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Aurelia Cotta (1st century BC), Mother of Julius Caesar (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Antonia Major (1st century BC), grandmother of Emperor Nero (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Antonia Minor (1st century BC-1st century AD), mother of Emperor Claudius and Germanicus, favorite niece of Augustus Caesar, considered a role model for women in the Roman Empire after she refused to remarry and spent the rest of her life raising her children and grandchildren. (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Atia Balba Caesonia, mother of Augustus and Octavia Minor (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Claudia Pulchra, wife of Publius Quinctilius Varus (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Claudia Marcella, nieces of Caesar Augustus (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Domitia Lepida the Elder, aunt of Emperor Nero (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Domitia Lepida the Younger, sister of the following, Mother of the Empress Valeria Messalina (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Domitia Longina, wife of Emperor Domitian (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Domitia Lucilla Minor, mother of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Domitia Paulina, Aelia Domitia Paulina, Julia Serviana Paulina, female relatives of Emperor Hadrian (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Julia the Elder, daughter of Augustus (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Julia Livia (1st century), granddaughter of Emperor Tiberius (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Livia Drusilla (1st century BC), wife of Tiberius Claudius Nero, mother of the Emperor Tiberius, and then wife of Augustus Caesar. The first woman to be officially deified. (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Livilla (1st century), granddaughter of Livia (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Marcia, sister of the consul Quintus Marcius Rex, wife of Gaius Julius Caesar II, paternal grandmother of Julius Caesar (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Messalina, Emperor Claudius' wife, notorious for her promiscuity. (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Octavia Minor, sister of Caesar Augustus and fourth wife of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony) (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Plautia Urgulanilla, Emperor Claudius' first wife (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Scribonia, second wife of Augustus and mother of his only legitimate child (whom she apparently ignored until her exile) (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Vipsania Agrippina, first wife of Tiberius and the only one he loved (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Vipsania Julia (19 BC - c. AD 29), granddaughter of Augustus (Distinguished women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (c. 27 BC - 68 AD))

• Claudia Metrodora (1st century AD), Greco-Roman public benefactor, lived on Kos (Distinguished women of the Classical Roman Empire)

• Lucilla, (2nd century AD) Roman Empress, failed in her coup attempt on brother Commodus (Distinguished women of the Classical Roman Empire)

• Aquilia Severa (3rd century), Vestal Virgin and wife of Elagabalus (Distinguished women of the Classical Roman Empire)

• Clodia (1st century BC), Catullus's Lesbia (Distinguished women of the Classical Roman Empire)

• Domitia Decidiana - wife of Roman General Gnaeus Julius Agricola and mother-in-law to historian Tacitus. (Distinguished women of the Classical Roman Empire)

• Galla Placidia, (5th century) (Distinguished women of the Classical Roman Empire)

• Julia Avita Mamaea (3rd century AD), mother of emperor Alexander Severus. (Distinguished women of the Classical Roman Empire)

• Julia Domna (3rd century AD), wife of Septimius Severus (Distinguished women of the Classical Roman Empire)

• Julia Maesa (3rd century), grandmother of Elagabalus and Alexander Severus (Distinguished women of the Classical Roman Empire)

• Pomponia Graecina, possibly the saint Lucina, a descendant of Vipsania (above) (Distinguished women of the Classical Roman Empire)

• Saint Procula wife of Pontius Pilate (Distinguished women of the Classical Roman Empire)

• Servilia, mother of Brutus and lover of Julius Caesar (Distinguished women of the Classical Roman Empire)

• Ulpia Severina (3rd century AD), wife of emperor Aurelian. There's evidence to suppose that, after Aurelian's death, she ruled the Roman Empire for a short period of time, until the new emperor, Marcus Claudius Tacitus was chosen by the Senate. This is the only moment before Rome's conversion to Christianity that the ruler was a woman, a handful of women would rule as Empress in their own right from the 5th century onwards, such as Pulcheria (Distinguished women of the Classical Roman Empire)

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