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Agrippina ’ s mother Julia was the only natural child born to Augustus from his second marriage to noblewoman Scribonia.
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Agrippina was born as the second daughter and fourth child to Roman statesman and Augustus ’ ally Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder.
From Agrippa ’ s previous two marriages, Agrippina had two half-sisters: Vipsania Agrippina and Vipsania Marcella Agrippina.
Vipsania Agrippina was Agrippa ’ s first daughter and first child from his first marriage to Pomponia Caecilia Attica.
In 2 BC Augustus exiled Agrippina ’ s mother on the grounds that she had committed adultery, thereby causing a major scandal.
At this spot, there were local altars inscribed as a dedication to Agrippina: “ IN HONOR OF AGRIPPINA ’ S PUERPERIUM ”.
Agrippina ’ s actions were considered unusual as for a Roman wife, because a conventional Roman wife was required to stay home.
A few months before Augustus ’ death in 14, the emperor wrote and sent a letter to Agrippina mentioning how Caligula must be future emperor because at that time, no other child had this name.
Agrippina had a hasty, uncomfortable relationship with Tiberius and possibly with Tiberius ’ mother Livia.
Agrippina ’ s son Drusus died of starvation being imprisoned in Rome and Nero either committed suicide soon after the trial.
A bronze medal on display in the British Museum shows Agrippina ’ s ashes being brought back to Rome by Caligula.
On the day that the Circus Games occurred, Caligula had a statue made of Agrippina ’ s image to be paraded in a covered carriage at the Games.
After the Circus Games, Caligula ordered written evidence of the court cases from Tiberius ’ treason trials to be brought to the Forum to be burnt, first being the cases of Agrippina and her two sons.
According to Tacitus, Agrippina ’ s eldest daughter Agrippina the Younger had written memoirs for posterity.
A second memoir was about the fortunes of her mother ’ s family and the last memoir recorded the misfortunes ( casus suorum ) of the family of Agrippina and Germanicus.
Germanicus ’ death in the year 19 caused much public grief in Rome, and gave rise to rumors that he had been murdered by Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso and Munatia Plancina on the orders of Tiberius, as his widow Agrippina the Elder returned to Rome with his ashes.
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Messalina considered Agrippina ’ s son a threat to her son ’ s position and sent assassins to strangle Lucius during his siesta.
Agrippina wrote a memoir that recorded the misfortunes of her family ( casus suorum ) and wrote an account of her mother ’ s life.
Regardless, for Agrippina ’ s seduction, it was a help that she had the niece ’ s privilege of kissing and caressing her paternal uncle.
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As a dedication to Agrippina, Caligula set aside the Circus Games to honor the memory of his late mother.
Agrippina the Younger was thereafter supervised by her mother, her paternal grandmother Antonia Minor, and her great-grandmother, Livia, all of them notable, influential, and powerful figures from whom she learnt how to survive.
Through his mother Antonia Major, Domitius was a great nephew of Augustus, first cousin to Claudius, and second cousin to Agrippina and Caligula.
According to Suetonius, Nero was annoyed at his mother being too watchful and tried three times to poison Agrippina, but she took the antidotes in time and survived.
Ancient historians describe Nero's early reign as being strongly influenced by his mother Agrippina, his tutor Seneca, and the Praetorian Prefect Burrus, especially in the first year.
# Nero, as well as being Claudius's great-nephew, was also his stepson, because Nero's mother Agrippina the Younger was Claudius's niece and fourth wife.
#* Antonia Minor, married Nero Claudius Drusus, the younger son of the Empress Livia Drusilla and brother of the Emperor Tiberius ; mother of the Emperor Claudius, grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, and maternal great-grandmother of the emperor Nero.
Nero's mother was Agrippina the Younger, a great-granddaughter of Caesar Augustus and his wife Scribonia through their daughter Julia the Elder and her husband Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.
* Agrippina the Elder or Julia Vipsania Agrippina ( 14 BC – 33 ), daughter of Julia the Elder, wife of Germanicus and mother of Emperor Caligula
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