Agrippina and Domitius lived between Antium ( Anzio ) and Rome.

In more recent times, it has been suggested that the Senate may have pushed for the marriage between Agrippina and Claudius to end the feud between the Julian and Claudian branches.

Agrippina did this hoping to secure a marriage between Octavia and her son.

The power struggle between Agrippina and her son had begun.

Germanicus married his maternal second cousin Agrippina the Elder, a granddaughter of Augustus, between 5 and 1 BC.

However, Graves acknowledges that there must be a delicate balance between Republican liberty and Imperial stability ; whereas too much of the former led to civil war, too much of the latter led to the corruption of Tiberius, Caligula, Valeria Messalina, Sejanus, Herod Agrippa, Nero, Agrippina the Younger, and countless others – as well as, to a lesser extent, Livia and Claudius himself.

Agrippina landed at Bauli, between Baiae and Cape Misenum, and completed her journey in a litter.

Domitius was wealthy but apparently he and Agrippina chose to live between Antium ( Anzio ) and Rome.

A caricature of Margherita Durastanti, the original Agrippina, from between 1709 and 1712

The Agrippina overture and other arias from the opera appeared in pasticcios performed in London between 1710 and 1714, with additional music provided by other composers.

Hence, Caligula invented the idea that his mother Agrippina was the product of an incestuous union between Julia and Augustus.

Agrippina, through her plotting and manipulating, ended the engagement between Octavia and Lucius Silanus and persuaded Claudius to adopt Nero as his son and heir and arranged for Octavia and Nero to marry on 9 June 53.

In 55, Agrippina was forced out of the palace by her son to live in imperial residence.

In 55, Junia Silana, sister of Caligula's first wife Junia Claudilla, a rival of Empress Agrippina the Younger and the ex-wife of Messalina's lover Gaius Silius, accused Agrippina of plotting to overthrow Nero to place Plautus on the throne.

Agrippina became involved in a group of Roman Senators who opposed the growing power and influence of the notorious Praetorian Guard Lucius Aelius Sejanus.

Around this time, Agrippina became the mistress to one of Claudius ’ advisers, the former Greek Freedman Marcus Antonius Pallas.

On the day that Agrippina married her uncle Claudius as her third husband / his fourth wife, she became an Empress and the most powerful woman in the Roman Empire.

When Germanicus died at Antioch in 19 AD, his wife Agrippina the Elder returned to Rome with her six children where she became entangled in an increasingly bitter feud with Tiberius.

He became praetor in 25 AD, and gained the favor of Tiberius by accusing Claudia Pulchra, the second cousin of Agrippina, of adultery and the use of magic arts against the emperor, in 26 AD.

Following his death, his wife Agrippina the Elder returned to Rome with their six children and became increasingly involved with a group of senators who opposed the growing power of Sejanus.

The Emperor Claudius, uncle of Nero's mother, Agrippina the Younger, married his niece in 49 AD and therefore became Nero's stepfather.

Nero and Octavia themselves married in 53 AD, and Nero became emperor in 54 AD, after his great-uncle / stepfather died — apparently poisoned, in the belief of contemporary historians, by his niece / wife, Agrippina, Nero's mother.

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.

Lepida's former sister-in-law, Agrippina the Younger, became Claudius ' new wife in 49.

Out of jealousy, Agrippina arranged the execution of Lepida sometime before the poisoning of Claudius, after which Nero became the new emperor.

Through her friendship with Agrippina, she became the victim of the intrigues of Sejanus ' treason trials in 26.

Sometime later, she was discreetly starved to death there and her remains were probably brought back to Rome when her sister Agrippina the Younger became influential as the emperor's wife.

According to Suetonius, he was congratulated by his friends for the birth of his son and Domitius said any child born to him and Agrippina would have a detestable nature and become a public danger, a fact that became true during the second part of Nero's reign.

Her remains were later brought back to Rome, probably when Agrippina became Empress ; they were laid to rest in the Mausoleum of Augustus.

Sometime later, Paulina became a rival to Caligula's sister Agrippina the Younger and was considered a choice for fourth wife of Caligula's uncle, the Emperor Claudius, following the death of Claudius's third wife, the Empress Valeria Messalina.

Due to their friendship with Agrippina they became innocent victims of Sejanus ' treason trials.

Although Agrippina was very influential, she kept a very low profile and stayed away from the imperial palace and the court of the emperor.

After being widowed a second time, Agrippina was left very wealthy.

Nero expressed the desire to marry Acte and had a genealogy fabricated linking her to King Attalus of Pergamum ; he even bribed ex-consuls to prepare to swear to her royal birthright, a move that enraged his mother Agrippina, who was very conscious and proud of her own, well-established patrician ancestry.

The most widely used is the Vaganova method, which was named after the very famous ballerina and teacher, Agrippina Vaganova.

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.

From Agrippa ’ s previous two marriages, Agrippina had two half-sisters: Vipsania Agrippina and Vipsania Marcella Agrippina.

From the marriage of Julia and Agrippa, Agrippina had four full-blood siblings: a sister Julia the Younger and three brothers: Gaius Caesar, Lucius Caesar and Agrippa Postumus.

Augustus had forced his first stepson Tiberius to end his happy first marriage to Vipsania Agrippina to marry Julia the Elder.

In 2 BC Augustus exiled Agrippina ’ s mother on the grounds that she had committed adultery, thereby causing a major scandal.

According to Suetonius, Agrippina had a strict upbringing and education.

Agrippina and Augustus had a close relationship.

The Roman historian Tacitus states that Agrippina had an ‘ impressive record as wife and mother ’.

Agrippina and Germanicus in their union had nine children, of whom three died young.

According to Suetonius who had cited from Pliny the Elder, Agrippina had borne to Germanicus, a son called Gaius Julius Caesar who had a lovable character.

Agrippina had earned herself a reputation as a heroic woman and wife.

During her time in Germania, Agrippina had proved herself to be an efficient and effective diplomat.

Agrippina had reminded Germanicus on occasion of his relation to Augustus.

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.

It was widely suspected that Germanicus had been poisoned or perhaps on the orders of Tiberius, with Agrippina believing he was assassinated.

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.

Agrippina had a hasty, uncomfortable relationship with Tiberius and possibly with Tiberius ’ mother Livia.

Agrippina had suspected that the apple could be poisoned and refused to taste the apple.

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.

According to Suetonius, Caligula nursed a rumor that Augustus and Julia the Elder had an incestuous union from which Agrippina the Elder had been born.