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Agrippina the Younger would become a future Roman Empress and mother to the later Emperor Nero.
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Agrippina and Younger
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.
The six children who survived to adulthood were the sons: Nero Caesar, Drusus Caesar and Caligula born as Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus and the daughters Julia Agrippina or Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla.
According to Tacitus, Agrippina ’ s eldest daughter Agrippina the Younger had written memoirs for posterity.
From the memoirs written by Agrippina the Younger, Tacitus used the memoirs to extract information regarding the family and fate of Agrippina the Elder, when Tacitus was writing The Annals.
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.
Agrippina the Younger has been described by both the ancient and modern sources as ‘ ruthless, ambitious, violent and domineering ’.
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.
During the reign of Caligula, coins like the one pictured here were issued depicting his three sisters, Drusilla, Livilla and Agrippina the Younger.
Agrippina and Claudius betrothed Nero to Octavia, and Agrippina arranged to have Seneca the Younger return from exile to tutor the future emperor.
* Note that most ancient Roman sources are quite critical of Agrippina the Younger, because she was seen as stepping outside the conservative Roman ideals regarding the roles of women in society.
* Donna Hurley, Agrippina the Younger ( Wife of Claudius ).
He was the only child of Agrippina the Younger through her first marriage to Domitius, and through her, he was great-great grandson of the Emperor Augustus, great-grandnephew and adoptive great-grandson of the Emperor Tiberius, nephew of the Emperor Caligula, as well as great-nephew and stepson of the Emperor Claudius.
* Claudius's niece Agrippina the Younger
His sisters were Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla, and Julia Livilla.
His favorite sister Julia Drusilla died in AD 38 of a fever: his other two sisters, Livilla and Agrippina the Younger, were exiled.
They accuse Caligula of incest with his sisters, Agrippina the Younger, Drusilla and Livilla, and say he prostituted them to other men.
Caligula's sister, Agrippina the Younger, wrote an autobiography that certainly included a detailed explanation of Caligula's reign, but it too is lost.
Agrippina and would
During the flogging Agrippina would lose an eye.
Pallas stated to the emperor that as Lucius was the grandson to Claudius's late brother Germanicus, by marrying Agrippina, Claudius would ally the two branches of the Claudian house and imperial family.
Towards the end of 54, Agrippina would order the murder of Silanus ' eldest brother Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus without Nero's knowledge, so that he would not seek revenge against her over his brother's death.
Agrippina and Nero would see each other on short visits.
Tiberius would not allow Agrippina to remarry for fear her husband would be a rival.
Augustus seems to have had Tiberius adopt Germanicus as heir because of the latter's marriage to his granddaughter Agrippina ( the last of Augustus ' living grandchildren not in disgrace ) ensured that his own descendents ( through a female line ) would inherit one day-but not because of any secret blood relationship.
It would be interesting to know her role in this, as well as in Tiberius ' divorce of Vipsania Agrippina in 12 BC at Augustus ' insistence: whether it was merely neutral or passive, or whether she actively colluded in Caesar's wishes.
By fueling his paranoia towards Agrippina and the Senate he induced the emperor to withdraw to the countryside of Campania, which he did in 26, and finally to the island of Capri, where he would spend the remainder of his life until his death in 37.
13. 1 ), the historian casts Agrippina, Nero's mother, as the architect of the murder, on the grounds that she feared that Torquatus would act as the avenger of his brother's death, of which, Tacitus implies, she was the perpetrator ( Agrippina fratri eius L. Silano necem molita ultorem metuebat 13. 1 ).
Agrippina thought that Lepida would use her ' kind ' influence on Nero, to turn him against his mother.
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.
The ballet also included the pas de caractéristique known as Les amours de Diane, which would later be transformed by Agrippina Vaganova into the so-called Diane and Actéon Pas de Deux for her 1935 revival of La Esmeralda.
For this revival Petipa created a new version of the celebrated piece Les amours de Diane that would later be transformed by Agrippina Vaganova into the famous Diane and Actéon Pas de Deux.
According to Tacitus, Narcissus hoped to bring down Agrippina by revealing her affair with the freedman Pallas, which would also have destroyed her son.
Agrippina and become
Agrippina had become lonely, distressed, physically ill and many of her relatives had died.
Around the time that Tiberius died, Agrippina had become pregnant.
Agrippina successfully manipulated and influenced Claudius into adopting her son and having him become his successor.
Agrippina and Claudius had become more combative in the months leading up to his death.
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.
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.
Through Silius ’ s wife, Sosia Galla, the couple had become friends with Tiberius ’ daughter-in-law Agrippina the Elder.
Agrippina and future
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.
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 betrothal was broken off in 48 when Agrippina, scheming with the consul Lucius Vitellius the Elder, the father of the future Emperor Aulus Vitellius, falsely accused Silanus of incest with his sister Junia Calvina.
Years before she died, Agrippina had visited astrologers to ask about her son ’ s future.
Agrippina was one of the few remaining descendants of Augustus, and her son Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( the future Emperor Nero ) was one of the last males of the Imperial family.
Domitius was the first husband of the future Augusta Agrippina the Younger and the biological father of the Princeps Nero, making Nero Messalina's first cousin despite a seventeen year age difference.
The third freedman, Marcus Antonius Pallas, recommended Claudius ' niece and Caligula's sister Agrippina the Younger, who also had a child from a previous marriage, in this case, the future Emperor Nero.
This splendid royal marriage probably gave Livilla grand aspirations for her future, perhaps at the expense of the ambition of Augustus ' granddaughters, Agrippina the Elder and Julia the Younger.
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 ).
She was an aunt to Titus Servilius Pomponianus, Caecilia Attica and a great-aunt to Vipsania Agrippina ( first wife to future Roman Emperor Tiberius ).
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.
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