The real Wicked Witch of Rome: Drama about Augustus Caesar s wife Livia shows her bludgeon a man to death with a rock - but it s nothing on the real-life thirst for power that saw her kill her grandsons, exile her daughter and poison her husband
New eight-part Sky series Domina tells the story of Ancient Rome s Livia Drusilla
She married the first Roman emperor Gaius Octavius, known as Augustus Caesar
Livia is remembered as a power-hungry woman who poisoned her husband
But Domina focuses on the domestic power struggles and manipulation