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Apr 23, 2024 · Julia Agrippina 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.
Nov 15, 2016 · written by Emma Southon. 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 ...
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 ...
Apr 4, 2014 · Mother, sister, wife and lover and part of the Roman elite, Agrippina the Younger sought to escape the restrictions imposed on her sex. James Romm | Published in History Today Volume 64 Issue 4 April 2014
Oct 19, 2021 · Agrippina the Younger was ambitious, ruthless, and intelligent. The first true empress of Rome, her life ended in a tragic downfall. Oct 19, 2021 • By Vedran Bileta, MA in Late Antique, Byzantine, and Early Modern History, BA in History. The Gemma Claudia, depicting emperor Claudius and his fourth wife, Agrippina the Younger, 49 CE ...
Agrippina the Younger (15–59 ce) Prominent woman intimately involved in power politics in the Roman Empire, who was often designated by her relationship to three emperors: sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius, and mother of Nero. Name variations: Julia Agrippina (often designated "Agrippina Minor"); Agrippina II. Pronunciation: agrih-PEE-nuh.
Agrippina the Elder (c. 14 bce–33 ce) Popular Roman whose independence and ambition for her children annoyed Tiberius and led to her exile and subsequent suicide by starvation. Name variations: Agrippina I; Agrippina Major; Vipsania Agrippina. Born around 14 bce; died in exile in 33 ce in Pandateria; daughter of Julia (39 bce–14 ce) and ...
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