Livia Drusilla, after 14 calle Julia Augusta (Classical Latin: LIVIA•DRVSILLA, later IVLIA•AVGVSTA) (58 BC-29) was the wife of Augustus (also known as Octavian) and the most powerful woman in the early Roman Empire, acting several times as regent and being Augustus' faithful advisor. She was also mother to Emperor Tiberius and Drusus, grandmother to Germanicus and Claudius, great-grandmother to Caligula and Agrippina the Younger and great-great-grandmother to Nero. She was deified by Claudius who acknowledged her title of Augusta.