Agrippina: Sister of Caligula, Wife of Claudius, Mother of Nero (Roman Imperial Biographies)

380 Pages·2005·5.95 MB·English

by  Anthony A. Barrett

AGRIPPINA
AGRIPPINA
Mother of Nero
Anthony A.Barrett
B T Batsford Ltd, London
© Anthony A.Barrett 1996
First published 1996
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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
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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