According to Tacitus, Narcissus hoped to bring down Agrippina by revealing her affair with the freedman Pallas, which would also have destroyed her son.

Suetonius and Dio report that, after reconciling with Brittanicus, Claudius -- not Narcissus -- openly planned to bring Agrippina down.

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

Other performers, and the villains and victims they portrayed, included Jack Kruschen ( as William Burke and Trotsky assassin Ramón Mercader ), Jay Novello ( as William Hare and Dr. William Palmer ), Mary Jane Croft ( as Bathsheba Spooner and Madame de Brinvilliers ), Betty Lou Gerson ( as Agrippina and Lucrezia Borgia ), Edgar Barrier ( as Julius Caesar ), Harry Bartell ( as Brutus ), Hans Conried ( as Ali Pasha ), Herb Butterfield ( as Lincoln, Trotsky, and Thomas Edwin Bartlett ), Jack Edwards ( as John Wilkes Booth and Cole Younger ), Irene Tedrow ( as Lizzie Borden ), William Johnstone ( as Robert Knox ), Betty Harford ( as Madeleine Smith and Ripper victim Mary Jane Kelly ), Clayton Post ( as Jesse James ), and Sam Edwards ( as Billy the Kid and Bob Younger ).

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.

Julia Agrippina, most commonly referred to as Agrippina Minor or Agrippina the Younger, and after 50 known as Julia Augusta Agrippina ( Minor Latin for the ‘ younger ’, Classical Latin: ;, 7 November 15 or 6 November 16 – 19 / 23 March 59 ) was a Roman Empress and one of the more prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

#* 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.

Agrippina the Younger, 15 AD – 59, had 1 child ;

During Georg Friederich Händel's visit to Italy, much was made of his being from Saxony ; in particular, the Venetians greeted the 1709 performance of his opera Agrippina with the cry Viva il caro Sassone, " Long live the beloved Saxon!

Due to his devotion to her, Messalina was able to manipulate Claudius into ordering the exile or execution of various people: the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger ; Claudius ’ nieces Julia Livilla and Julia ; Marcus Vinicius ( husband of Julia Livilla ); consul Gaius Asinius Pollio II ( see Vipsania Agrippina ); the elder Poppaea Sabina ( mother of Empress Poppaea Sabina, second wife of Nero ); consul Decimus Valerius Asiaticus ; and Polybius.

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.

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.

* Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, better known as the emperor Nero, who reigned from AD 54 to 68 ; he was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus to Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger, but was adopted by the emperor Claudius in AD 50.

In Rome, Handel met Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani, a diplomat and spare-time librettist ; the result of this meeting was a collaboration which produced Handel's second Italian opera, Agrippina.

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.

It is claimed by Tacitus that Agrippina exercised some erotic power over her son and that Acte advised Nero to resist this power, out of fear for her own safety and with Seneca's encouragement ; she warned Nero of the potential political repercussions with the military if incest with his mother were to become public.

Nevertheless, Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus-the local governor of the German provinces-rebelled ; his assault on Colonia Agrippina resulted in the deaths of Saloninus and the prefect.

Nero Claudius Drusus, later Drusus Julius Caesar ( adoptive name ; 13 BC – 14 September 23 AD ) was the only child of Roman Emperor Tiberius and his first wife, Vipsania Agrippina.

In the same year, Germanicus died, making Drusus the new heir ; Germanicus ' wife Agrippina suspected Tiberius of having killed him to allow Drusus to become his heir, but this is unlikely.

As with Claudius, poison was the means to Torquatus ' end ; the epitomator of Dio Cassius ' ' Roman History ' even tells us that Agrippina sent Torquatus the same poison with which she dispatched her late husband ( 61. 4 ); and Tacitus informs us that the lethal drug was administered by a Roman of the Equestrian class named P. Celer, with the aid of a freed slave named Helius.

Nero's siblings included four brothers ( Tiberius and Gaius Julius, who died young ; Drusus Caesar ; and the future Emperor Caligula ) and three sisters ( Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla, and Julia Livilla ).

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

Tacitus described her as “ determined and rather excitable ”-" Agrippina knew no feminine weaknesses.

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Following her death, Caligula's relationship with Agrippina and Livilla changed, showing no special love or respect toward them after Drusilla's death.

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.

In 50, Agrippina was granted the honorific title of Augusta, a title which, up until this point, no other imperial woman had ever received in the lifetime of her husband.

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Julia the Younger was not a Julia Caesaris by birth: being the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa made her a Vipsania Agrippina by birth, although there are no contemporary sources that show that that name was ever used for her.

Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder ( Major Latin for the elder, Classical Latin:, 14 BC – 17 October 33 ) was a distinguished and prominent Roman woman of the first century AD.

As a member of the imperial family, Agrippina was expected to display frugality, chastity and domesticity, all traditional virtues for a noble Roman woman.

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

Agrippina is regarded in ancient and modern historical sources as a Roman Matron with a reputation as a great woman, who had an excellent character and had outstanding Roman morals.

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.

* Osinia Agrippina, a noble woman who descended from Julius or Iulius Capitolinus, who was one of the biographers of the Augustan History

The woman usually called Antonia the Younger was the younger niece of the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, paternal grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, mother of the Emperor Claudius, and both maternal great-grandmother and paternal great-aunt of the Emperor Nero.

Tiberius married Julia ( 11 BC ), but to do so he had to divorce Vipsania Agrippina ( daughter of a previous marriage of Agrippa ), the woman he dearly loved.

Agrippina was the wife of the general and statesman Germanicus and a relative to the first Roman Emperors.

Agrippina was born as the second daughter and fourth child to Roman statesman and Augustus ’ ally Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder.

Agrippina ’ s mother Julia was the only natural child born to Augustus from his second marriage to noblewoman Scribonia.

Vipsania Agrippina was Agrippa ’ s first daughter and first child from his first marriage to Pomponia Caecilia Attica.

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.

Eventually Agrippina was proud of her large family and this was a part of the reason she was popular with Roman citizens.

Agrippina ’ s actions were considered unusual as for a Roman wife, because a conventional Roman wife was required to stay home.

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

Agrippina was in grief when Germanicus died.

This was the last time that Tiberius invited Agrippina to his dinner table.

Refusing to eat, Agrippina was force-fed but later starved herself to death.

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.

Agrippina was the first Roman matron to have more than one child from her family to reign on the Roman throne.

Through Nero, Agrippina was the paternal great-grandmother of Claudia Augusta, ( Nero's only child through his second marriage to Poppaea Sabina ).