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Agrippina Anthony A. Barrett (University of British Colombia, Canada (Emeritus))

Agrippina By Anthony A. Barrett (University of British Colombia, Canada (Emeritus))

Agrippina by Anthony A. Barrett (University of British Colombia, Canada (Emeritus))

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Barrett argues that Agrippina - mother of Nero, wife of Claudius and brother to Caligula - has been misunderstood and had much influence and power in her own right.

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Agrippina: Mother of Nero by Anthony A. Barrett (University of British Colombia, Canada (Emeritus))

Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. In this first biography of Agrippina in English, Anthony A. Barrett draws on the latest archaeological, numismatic, and historical evidence to create a startling new picture of this influential and misjudged 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. Although she was ambitious, Barrett argues that she made her way through ability and determination rather than by sexual allure, and that her political contributions to her time seem to have been positive.

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'The most valuable part of the book is the inventory of source material at the end where not only the more familiar literary evidence is catalogued but the coins, statues and inscriptions featuring Agrippina.' - Miriam Griffin, History Today

About Anthony A. Barrett (University of British Colombia, Canada (Emeritus))

Anthony Barrett is Professor of Classics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He studied at the Universities of Oxford, Durham and Toronto and has written extensively in the field of classical antiquity.

Table of Contents

Significant events and figures; background; family; daughter; sister; niece; wife; mother; the end; sources appendices: the year of Agrippina the younger's birth; the husbands of Domitia and Lepida III; the date of Nero's birth; the family of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus; Agrippina's movements in late 39; the date of Seneca's tutorship; the decline in Agrippina's power; the patronage of Seneca and Burrus in 54-9; SC on gold and silver coins of Nero; the final days of Agrippina.

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NPB9780415208673
9780415208673
041520867X
Agrippina: Mother of Nero by Anthony A. Barrett (University of British Colombia, Canada (Emeritus))
Anthony A. Barrett (University of British Colombia, Canada (Emeritus))
Roman Imperial Biographies
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1999-08-26
360
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