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© 2024 Google LLC. Uncover the captivating tale of Agrippina the Younger, a formidable figure in ancient Rome whose ambition, cunning, and scandals shaped the course of history...
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Delve into the captivating story of Agrippina The Younger, a woman of ambition and influence in Ancient Rome. From her strategic rise to power to the scandal...
Size. 58 cm (height), ancient part 28 cm. Inventory. 1914 n. 115. The sculpted head reproduces the features of Agrippina the Younger, set on a splendid modern alabaster bust. An inscription traced on a hem of the robe, level with the left breast, dates the modern bust to the year 1652.
- Early Life
- Caligula's Reign
- Marriage to Claudius
- Nero & Death
Agrippina was born on 6 November 15 CE, at Oppidia Ubiorum (later renamed Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium at Agrippina's own request) in modern-day Germany. Her parents were Germanicus, the nephew of the ruling Roman emperor Tiberius, and Agrippina the Elder, daughter of Marcus Agrippa and Augustus' daughter, Julia. She had eight siblings, but o...
In his last years, after Sejanus' execution on account of treachery, Tiberius adopted the youngest son of Germanicus, named Gaius and nicknamed Caligula. Tiberius died in 37 CE, and it was in that year that Agrippina the Younger gave birth to her only son, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, the future Nero. The new emperor, Caligula, bestowed various hon...
Caligula was assassinated in early 41 CE. His successor and uncle, Claudius, recalled Agrippina and Livilla back from the exile. While the latter was executed by the emperor a few years later, maybe due to the scheming of Claudius' wife Messalina, Agrippina started looking for a new husband. She made advances to the future emperor Galba (r. 68-69 C...
Aged 63, Claudius died in 54 CE. Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius are convinced Agrippina poisoned him because the emperor had started to have second thoughts about Britannicus and Nero's positions, but that cannot be proven. What we know for certain is that Agrippina had Narcissus, one of Claudius' most influential freedmen and one of her enemi...
Portrait of Antonia the Younger (identified as Agrippina the Elder) Roman art. Characteristics. Description. Exhibitions. Date. Mid-first century AD. Museum. The Uffizi. Collection. Sculpture. Location. Second Corridor (A23) Technique. Greek marble (head) Size. 63 cm (height), told part 42 cm. Inventory. 1914 n. 546.
Nov 15, 2016 · The men who wrote this histories of Rome were happy to pretend that a woman had never ruled them. But for almost ten years, Agrippina unofficially ruled the Roman empire as partner to her husband and son. She was hailed as Augusta and was empress in all but name.
