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Agrippina and began
Tiberius began to distrust Agrippina.
Many people began to show pity and sympathy to Agrippina, due to the unfortunate circumstances in her life.
Claudius later repented of marrying Agrippina and adopting Nero, began to favor Britannicus, and started preparing him for the throne.
She lost control over Nero when he began to have an affair with the freedwoman Claudia Acte, which Agrippina strongly disapproved of and violently scolded him for.
In the 20th century, Handelian opera began a revival which, after productions in Germany, saw Agrippina premiered in Britain and in America.

Agrippina and support
In order to gain political support, he married Agrippina and adopted his great-nephew Nero.
Meanwhile, her widowed husband Marcus Amelius Lepidus reportedly became a lover to her sisters Livilla and Agrippina the Younger in an apparent attempt to gain their support in succeeding Caligula.
He was charged with overseeing the construction of a canal to drain Fucine Lake, but Agrippina, now Claudius's fourth wife, accused him of embezzling funds from the project, possibly as punishment for his support of Britannicus.

Agrippina and Britannicus
Agrippina and Lucius received greater applause from the audience than Messalina and Britannicus did.
Agrippina deprived Britannicus of his heritage and further isolated him from his father and succession for the throne in every way possible.
For instance, in 51, Agrippina ordered the execution of Britannicus ’ tutor Sosibius because he had confronted her and was outraged by Claudius ’ adoption of Nero and his choice of Nero as successor, instead of choosing his own son Britannicus.
Some modern historians theorize that Nero's decision to kill Agrippina was prompted by her plotting to set Gaius Rubellius Plautus ( Nero's maternal second cousin ) or Britannicus ( Claudius ' biological son ) on the throne.
Agrippina had motive in ensuring the succession of Nero before Britannicus could gain power.
In 49, Claudius ' fourth wife Agrippina the Younger had Seneca recalled to Rome to tutor her son Nero, then 12 years old ; on Claudius ' death in 54, she secured recognition of Nero, rather than Claudius ' son Britannicus, as emperor.
Agrippina was chosen, with dire implications for Antonia, Octavia, and Britannicus.
When Claudius chose Agrippina the Younger in order to consolidate the Julio-Claudian family, and picked her son, the future Emperor Nero to fill the role of temporary older heir, Narcissus allied with Britannicus ' circle in order to secure his future.
After the emperor himself, the Mausoleum hosted the ashes of Livia ( Augustus ' wife ), Germanicus, Agrippina the Elder, Agrippina's daughter Julia Livilla, Nero ( son of Germanicus ), Drusus Caesar ( son of Germanicus ), Caligula, Tiberius, Drusus Julius Caesar ( son of Tiberius ), Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor ( parents of Claudius ), Claudius, Britannicus ( the son of Claudius ), the embalmed body of Poppaea Sabina wife of Nero, Julia Domna ( later moved to Mausoleum of Hadrian ), and Nerva, the last emperor for whom the mausoleum was opened.

Agrippina and her
Vipsania Agrippina later married senator and consul Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus after Tiberius was forced to divorce her and marry Julia the Elder.
Agrippina was born in Athens, as in the year of her birth Agrippa was in that city completing official duties on behalf of Augustus.
Julia was banished for her remaining years and Agrippina never saw her again.
With her siblings, Agrippina was raised in Rome by her maternal grandfather and maternal step-grandmother Livia Drusilla.
Augustus made her record any daily activities she did in the imperial day book and the emperor took severe measures in preventing Agrippina from forming friendships, without his consent.
Between 1 BC-5, Agrippina married her second maternal cousin Germanicus.
Eventually Agrippina was proud of her large family and this was a part of the reason she was popular with Roman citizens.
During her time in Germania, Agrippina had proved herself to be an efficient and effective diplomat.
The Roman citizens had great sympathy for Agrippina and her family.
Agrippina had become lonely, distressed, physically ill and many of her relatives had died.
Tiberius took Agrippina by her hand and quoted the Greek line: “ And if you are not queen, my dear, have I then you wrong ?”
In 26, Agrippina requested Tiberius to allow her to marry her brother-in-law, Roman Senator Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus.
Agrippina later stated that Tiberius tried to poison her.
In 29, Agrippina and her sons Nero and Drusus, were arrested on the orders of Tiberius.
Agrippina and her sons were put on trial by the Roman Senate.
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.
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.
Tacitus described her as “ determined and rather excitable ”-" Agrippina knew no feminine weaknesses.
Throughout her life, Agrippina always prized her descent from Augustus, upbraiding Tiberius for persecuting the blood of his predecessor ; Tacitus, in writing of the occasion, believed this behaviour to be part of the beginning of " the chain of events leading to Agrippina's end.
Agrippina was the first Roman matron to have more than one child from her family to reign on the Roman throne.
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.

Agrippina and attempt
Her friend, Acerronia Polla, was attacked by oarsmen while still in the water, and was either bludgeoned to death or drowned, since she was exclaiming that she was Agrippina, with the intention of being saved, unfortunately she did not know that this was an attempt of Agrippina's life, not a mere accident.
At the Quinquatria in 59, Nero invited his mother, Agrippina the Younger, to his villa near Baiae, in an attempt to assassinate her.

Agrippina and make
In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.
After the death of her first husband, Agrippina tried to make shameless advances to the future emperor Galba, who showed no interest in her and was devoted to his wife Aemilia Lepida.
This was a part of Agrippina ’ s scheming plan to make Lucius the new emperor.
When Lepida lived, Agrippina the Younger ( then a widower after Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus ' death ) tried to make shameless advances to Galba who was devoted to his wife and thus completely uninterested.

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