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Mar 18, 2021 · Roman Empress Agrippina was a master strategist. She paid the price for it. Rome’s hardball politics were off-limits to women, yet this great-granddaughter of Augustus won power for herself and ...
- 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...
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Nov 15, 2016 · Agrippina the Younger was the first empress of the Roman Empire, but almost no modern sources remember her as such. In fact, she is not often remembered at all. Unlike her predecessor, Augustus’s wife Livia, she has slipped out of history. Where she has left a mark it has been only as Claudius’s last wife and the mother of Nero.
Apr 4, 2014 · Today, almost exactly two millennia after her birth, she stands out as the sole Roman woman to attempt to break the ultimate glass ceiling: to wield the power of a princeps, not just behind the scenes but before the astonished eyes of the senate, the army and the Roman political elite. Agrippina’s birth (in AD 15) and her lineage brought her ...
Agrippina the Younger, born into the illustrious Julio-Claudian dynasty, navigated the treacherous waters of Roman politics with a finesse and ambition seldom seen in her era. Her life, punctuated by strategic marriages, political maneuverings, and a relentless pursuit of power, ended tragically: murdered at the hands of Nero, her own son.
Vipsania Agrippina (born c. 14 bc —died Oct. 18, ad 33, the island of Pandateria [modern Ventotene Island, Italy], in the Tyrrhenian Sea) was the daughter of Marcus Agrippa and Julia (who was the daughter of the emperor Augustus), and a major figure in the succession struggles in the latter part of the reign of Tiberius (ruled ad 14–37).
(c.14 bc–ad 33), the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and of Julia (daughter of Augustus). She married Germanicus (probably in ad 5), to whom she bore nine children.
