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.
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
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Catharine Edwards at Birkbeck, University of London
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Alice Konig at the University of St Andrews
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Matthew Nicholls at the University of Reading
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Agrippina the Younger - Wikipedia
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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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