This book can replace a weighty tome on the Roman Empire. It has everything: conquests and conspiracies are being prepared, Caesar crosses the Rubicon, Brutus kills Caesar... Another story is shown quite fully: horrific murders and monstrous perversions - executions, orgies, incest, animal lust. Not only empresses, but also many emperors and their sons make love with slaves and gladiators, soldiers and sailors. Rome, the Eternal City, appears as a place of eternal depravity and cruelty. And at the center of this world of deception, intrigue, bloodshed and voluptuousness are women. The author of the book, a professional historian, presents a rich gallery of portraits of women of antiquity (both famous and known only to specialists) - Vestals and courtesans, queens and empresses, close relatives of Roman emperors ( mothers, sisters, daughters), as well as their lovers. They were different, but they all had considerable power and made history together with the men who bowed to them. The book is written on the basis of historical materials. Dozens of works by ancient historians and writers are cited.