Agrippina the Younger

Agrippina the Younger was one of the most notorious and influential of the Roman empresses in the 1st century AD. She was the sister of the Emperor Caligula, a wife of the Emperor Claudius and mother of the Emperor Nero. Through careful political manoeuvres, she acquired a dominant position for herself in Rome. In 39 AD she was exiled for allegedly participating in a plot against Caligula and later it was widely thought that she killed Claudius with poison. When Nero came to the throne, he was only 16 so Agrippina took on the role of regent until he began to exert his authority. After relations between Agrippina and Nero soured, he had her murdered.

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Guests

• Catharine Edwards 9 episodes
  Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London
• Alice Konig 2 episodes
  Lecturer in Latin and Classical Studies at the University of St Andrews
• Matthew Nicholls 4 episodes
  Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Reading

Reading list

• Catharine Edwards at Birkbeck, University of London
  
• Alice Konig at the University of St Andrews
  
• Matthew Nicholls at the University of Reading
  
• Agrippina the Younger - Wikipedia
  
• Agrippina: Sex, Power and Politics in the Early Roman Empire
  Anthony A. Barrett (Routledge, 1999)
• Nero
  Edward Champlin (Harvard University Press, 2005) Google Books →
• Complete Works
  Cassius Dio (trans. Herbert Baldwin Foster) (Delphi Classics, 2014) Google Books →
• The Roman Mother
  Suzanne Dixon (Routledge, 2013) Google Books →
• The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars
  Annalise Freisenbruch (Jonathan Cape, 2010) Google Books →
• Representing Agrippina: Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire
  Judith Ginsburg (Oxford University Press, 2005) Google Books →
• I, Claudius
  Robert Graves (Penguin Modern Classics, 2006) Google Books →
• Claudius the God
  Robert Graves (Penguin Modern Classics, 2006) Google Books →
• The Twelve Caesars
  Suetonius (trans. Robert Graves) (Penguin Classics, 2007) Google Books →
• The Annals of Imperial Rome
  Tacitus (trans. Michael Grant) (Penguin Classics, 2003) Google Books →

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