Tiberius to power and then maintaining him there, she is involved in nearly every death or disgrace in the Julio-Claudian family up to the time of her death. On her deathbed she only fears divine punishment for all she had done, and secures the promise of future deification by her grandson Claudius, an act which, she believes, will guarantee her a blissful afterlife. However, this portrait of her is balanced by her intense devotion to the well-being of the Empire as a whole, and her machinations are justified as a necessarily cruel means to what she firmly considers a noble aspiration: the common good of the Romans, achievable only under strict imperial rule. In John Maddox Roberts's short story "The King of Sacrifices," set in his SPQR series, Livia hires Decius Metellus to investigate the murder of one of Julia the Elder's lovers. In Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough, Livia is portrayed as a cunning and effective advisor to her husband, whom she loves passionately. Luke Devenish's "Empress of Rome" novels, Den of Wolves (2008) and Nest of Vipers (2010), have Livia as a central character in a fictionalized account of her life and times. Livia plays an important role in two Marcus Corvinus mysteries by David Wishart, Ovid (1995) and Germanicus (1997). She is mentioned posthumously in Sejanus (1998). Cultural depictions on screen In the 1968 ITV television series The Caesars, Livia was played by Sonia Dresdel. In the 1976 BBC television series I, Claudius based on the book, Livia was played by Siân Phillips. Phillips won a BAFTA for her portrayal of the role. In the 2003 television film Imperium: Augustus, (one of a series), Livia was portrayed by Charlotte Rampling. In the 2007 HBO/BBC television series Rome, Livia was dramatized by Alice Henley. In the 2021 Sky Atlantic TV series Domina, the older Livia was played by Kasia Smutniak, the younger Livia by Nadia Parkes and the child Livia by Meadow Nobrega. Descendants Her marriage with Augustus produced only one pregnancy, which miscarried. However, through her sons by her first husband, Tiberius and Drusus, she was a direct ancestor of all of the Julio-Claudian emperors as well as most of the extended Julio-Claudian imperial family. 1. Tiberius Claudius Nero (Tiberius Julius Caesar), 42 BC – AD 37, had two children A. Drusus Julius Caesar, 14 BC – AD 23, had three children I. Julia Livia, before