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Agrippina wrote a memoir that recorded the misfortunes of her family ( casus suorum ) and wrote an account of her mother ’ s life.
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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.
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 memoir
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 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.
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 family
Later Agrippina ’ s family returned to Rome.
As a member of the imperial family, Agrippina was expected to display frugality, chastity and domesticity, all traditional virtues for a noble Roman woman.
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.
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.
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.
Several women of the Imperial family, such as Livia's great-granddaughter and Caligula's sister Agrippina the Younger, gained political influence as well as public prominence.
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.
Agrippina and mother
Agrippina ’ s mother Julia was the only natural child born to Augustus from his second marriage to noblewoman Scribonia.
In 2 BC Augustus exiled Agrippina ’ s mother on the grounds that she had committed adultery, thereby causing a major scandal.
The Roman historian Tacitus states that Agrippina had an ‘ impressive record as wife and mother ’.
Agrippina the Younger would become a future Roman Empress and mother to the later Emperor Nero.
Agrippina had a hasty, uncomfortable relationship with Tiberius and possibly with Tiberius ’ mother Livia.
As a dedication to Agrippina, Caligula set aside the Circus Games to honor the memory of his late mother.
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.
Through his mother, Agrippina the Elder, Caligula was a great-grandson of Augustus.
Nero was a direct descendant of Augustus and Livia through his mother, Agrippina the Younger.
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.
Nero's mother, Agrippina, lost favor with Caligula and was exiled in 39 after her husband's death.
In 49, Claudius married a fourth time, to Nero's mother Agrippina.
Aureus of Nero and his mother, Agrippina the Younger | Agrippina, c. 54.
* Emperor Nero ordered the murder of his mother Agrippina the Younger.
* March – Agrippina the Younger, mother of Nero ( killed by order of Nero )
* 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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