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There were a few empressesActually Rome did I think, she committed incest with her brother in order to main the throne. Don't recall the source Netflix I think it was...
I think the movie/series is about Livia Drusilla who was from 27 BC to 14 AD and not a real empress on her own. She was the wife of Emperor Augustus. But she was adopted into the family and after that cousin and wife to her husband and the first one with the imperial 'August' She was known as Julia Augusta since 14AD after the death of her husband and when her son Tiberius got the throne. She was the great-great-grandmother of the emperor Nero (the guy that burned rome 64 and made the christians of that time the culprits and not the star trek guy.)
These following four were real empresses on the own.
*Ulpia Severina* (275?)-there’re some evidence that she possibly ruled very briefly
Irene of Athens (797–802)
Zoe (1028–1041 and 1042–1050) Zoë Porphyrogenita
Theodora (1042–1056) co-ruled with sister Zoë Theodora Porphyrogenita (11th century)