| PAGE | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| CHAP. | ||
| I. | THE MAKING OF AN EMPRESS | 7 |
| II. | THE END OF THE GOLDEN AGE | 23 |
| III. | THE WIVES OF CALIGULA | 46 |
| IV. | VALERIA MESSALINA | 60 |
| V. | THE MOTHER OF NERO | 79 |
| VI. | THE WIVES OF NERO | 105 |
| VII. | THE EMPRESSES OF THE TRANSITION | 122 |
| VIII. | PLOTINA | 136 |
| IX. | SABINA, THE WIFE OF HADRIAN | 149 |
| X. | THE WIVES OF THE STOICS | 163 |
| XI. | THE WIVES OF THE SYBARITES | 179 |
| XII. | JULIA DOMNA | 194 |
| XIII. | IN THE DAYS OF ELAGABALUS | 210 |
| XIV. | ANOTHER SYRIAN EMPRESS | 222 |
| XV. | ZENOBIA AND VICTORIA | 233 |
| XVI. | THE WIFE AND DAUGHTER OF DIOCLETIAN | 250 |
| XVII. | THE FIRST CHRISTIAN EMPRESSES | 265 |
| XVIII. | THE WIVES OF CONSTANTIUS AND JULIAN | 286 |
| XIX. | JUSTINA | 306 |
| XX. | THE ROMANCE OF EUDOXIA AND EUDOCIA | 322 |
| XXI. | THE LAST EMPRESSES OF THE WEST | 340 |
| INDEX | 351 | |