Agrippina: Sister of Caligula, Wife of Claudius, Mother of Nero (Roman Imperial Biographies) PDF
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AGRIPPINA AGRIPPINA Mother of Nero Anthony A.Barrett B T Batsford Ltd, London © Anthony A.Barrett 1996 First published 1996 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission from the Publisher Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd 4 Fitzhardinge Street, London W1H 0AH A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-203-48106-2 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-78930-X (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0 7134 6854 8 (Print Edition) The jacket illustration shows a sculptured head of Agrippina (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen). Contents List of Illustrations vi Foreword xii Significant Events and Figures x viii 1 Background 1 2 Family 15 3 Daughter 26 4 Sister 46 5 Niece 81 6 Wife 108 7 Mother 171 8 The End 214 9 Sources 231 Appendix I The Year of Agrippina the Younger’s Birth 269 Appendix II The Husbands of Domitia and Lepida 272 Appendix III The Date of Nero’s Birth 274 Appendix IV The Family of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus 276 Appendix V Agrippina’s Movements in Late 39 277 Appendix VI The Date of Seneca’s Tutorship 278 Appendix VII The Decline in Agrippina’s Power 279 Appendix VIII The Patronage of Seneca and Burrus in 54–9 282 Appendix IX SC on Gold and Silver Coins of Nero 284 Appendix X The Final Days of Agrippina 285 v Abbreviations 288 Notes and References 295 Bibliography 332 Index 350 Illustrations Photographs (Between pages 138 and 139) 1 Sculpted head: Agrippina 2 Sculpted head: Agrippina 3 Sculpted head: Agrippina 4 Sculpted head: Caligula 5 Sculpted head: Agrippina the Elder 6 Cameo: family group 7 Sestertius: Agrippina 8 Sestertius: Agrippina the Elder 9 Dupondius: Germanicus 10 Sestertius: Agrippina and her Sisters 11 Coin: Agrippina and her Sisters 12 Tetradrachm: Agrippina and Claudius 13 Aureus: Nero and Agrippina 14 Aureus: Nero and Agrippina 15 Tetradrachm: Agrippina 16 Denarius: Agrippina 17 Drachm: Agrippina 18 Relief: Agrippina and Claudius 19 Relief: Agrippina and Nero Stemmata I The Julio-Claudians viii II The family connections of M.Aemilius Lepidus 68 Figures 1 The Roman world in AD 41 ix vii 2 The Temple of Divus Claudius; podium façade 178 3 The Temple of Divus Claudius on the marble plan of Rome 180 4 Baiae and its environs 219 Stemma I The Julio-Claudians ix
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