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Agrippina - Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore (Paperback)
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Agrippina - Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore (Paperback)
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Agrippina the Younger held a unique position in the first Roman
imperial family. As great niece of Tiberius, sister of Caligula,
wife of Claudius and mother of Nero she stood at the centre of
power in the Roman empire for three generations. Even in her own
time, she was recognised as a woman of unparalleled power. From
exile to being hailed empress, across three marriages and three
widowhoods, her life, power and role were extraordinary in their
scope and drama. Beautiful and intelligent, she is alternately a
ruthless murderer and helpless victim, the most loving mother and
the most powerful woman of the Roman empire. She is portrayed in
ancient sources as using sex, motherhood, manipulation and violence
to get her way, and single-minded in her pursuit of power for
herself and her son. Agrippina's life sheds light on the
Julio-Claudian dynasty and Rome at its height - the chaos, blood
and politics of it all - as well as the place of women in the Roman
world. This book follows Agrippina as a daughter, born to the
expected heir to Augustus's throne, who was then orphaned, as a
sister to Caligula who raped his sisters and showered them with
honours until they attempted rebellion against him and were exiled,
as a seductive niece and then wife to Claudius who gave her access
to near unlimited power, and then as a mother to Nero who adored
her until he killed her. She was 44 when she died. It takes us from
the camps of Germany during a mutiny, through senatorial political
intrigue, assassination attempts and exile to a small island, to
the heights of imperial power, thrones and golden cloaks and games
and adoration. We will see Agrippina found her own city (Cologne),
live up to and then flaunt the greatest ideals of Roman femininity
and motherhood, and explore the absolute limits of female power in
Rome. The biography of Agrippina is also the biography of the first
Roman imperial family - the Julio-Claudians, and of the empire
itself.
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