| | 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] |