Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire by Anthony A. Barrett

Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire

Anthony A. Barrett

352 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her success by plotting against her brother, the emperor Caligula, murdering her husband, the emperor Claud...

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