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Agrippina : sex, power, and politics in the early Empire

Author: Anthony Barrett
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her success by plotting against her brother, the emperor Caligula, murdering her husband, the emperor Claudius, and controlling her son, the emperor Nero, by sleeping with him. Modern scholars tend to accept this verdict. But in his dynamic biography - the first on Agrippina in
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Genre/Form: Biographies
History
Biography
Named Person: Agrippina, Minor; Agrippine, la Jeune; Agrippina, Minor; Agrippina, die Jüngere; Agrippine la Jeune; Agrippina (die Jüngere); Agrippina, Minor
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Anthony Barrett
ISBN: 0300065981 9780300065985 0300078560 9780300078565
OCLC Number: 35370600
Notes: "Published 1996 in the United Kingdom as Agrippina, Mother of Nero"--Title page verso.
Description: xxi, 330 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents: Significant events and figures --
Background --
Family --
Daughter --
Sister --
Niece --
Wife --
Mother --
The end --
Sources --
Appendix I. The year of Agrippina the Younger's birth --
Appendix II. The husbands of Domitia and Lepida --
Appendix III. The date of Nero's death --
Appendix IV. The family of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus --
Appendix V. Agrippina's movements in late 39 --
Appendix VI. The date of Seneca's tutorship --
Appendix VII. The decline of Agrippina's power --
Appendix VIII. The patronage of Seneca and Burrus in 54-9 --
Appendix IX. SC on gold and silver coins of Nero --
Appendix X. The final days of Agrippina.
Responsibility: Anthony A. Barrett.

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Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her success by plotting against her brother, the emperor Caligula, murdering her husband, the emperor Claudius, and controlling her son, the emperor Nero, by sleeping with him. Modern scholars tend to accept this verdict. But in his dynamic biography - the first on Agrippina in English - Anthony Barrett paints a startling new picture of this influential woman.

Drawing on the latest archaeological, numismatic, and historical evidence, Barrett argues that Agrippina has been misjudged. Although she was ambitious, says Barrett, she made her way through ability and determination rather than by sexual allure, and her political contributions to her time seem to have been positive. After Agrippina's marriage to Claudius there was a marked decline in the number of judicial executions and there was close cooperation between the Senate and the emperor; the settlement of Cologne, founded under her aegis, was a model of social harmony; and the first five years of Nero's reign, while she was still alive, were the most enlightened of his rule. According to Barrett, Agrippina's one real failing was her relationship with her son, the monster of her own making who had her murdered in horrific and violent circumstances.

Agrippina's impact was so lasting, however, that for some 150 years after her death no woman in the imperial family dared assume an assertive political role.

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