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Apr 23, 2024 · Julia Agrippina (born ad 15—died 59) was the mother of the Roman emperor Nero and a powerful influence on him during the early years of his reign (54–68). Agrippina was the daughter of Germanicus Caesar and Vipsania Agrippina, sister of the emperor Gaius, or Caligula (reigned 37–41), and wife of the emperor Claudius (41–54).
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 ...
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.
But during her lifetime, Julia Agrippina, more commonly known as Agrippina the Younger, made unique and extraordinary inroads into the spaces of Roman political and social power, to the extent that she ruled for several years as her husband’s equal in power. She was the first true empress of Rome, although you’ll struggle to hear anyone ...
Oct 19, 2021 · Agrippina the Younger: Rome’s First True Empress. Agrippina the Younger was ambitious, ruthless, and intelligent. The first true empress of Rome, her life ended in a tragic downfall. The Gemma Claudia, depicting emperor Claudius and his fourth wife, Agrippina the Younger, 49 CE, Kunsthistorisches Museum; with The Shipwreck of Agrippina ...
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 ...
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).
