| Agrippina: Mother of Nero Revised Edition Contributor(s): Barrett, Anthony A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 041520867X ISBN-13: 9780415208673 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $49.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & Humanities - History | Ancient - Rome |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Roman Imperial Biographies (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.12 lbs) 360 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. In this first biography of Agrippina in English, Anthony A. Barrett draws on the latest archaeological, numismatic, and historical evidence to create a startling new picture of this influential and misjudged woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her success by plotting against her brother, the emperor Caligula, murdering her husband, the emperor Claudius, and controlling her son, the emperor Nero, by sleeping with him. Although she was ambitious, Barrett argues that she made her way through ability and determination rather than by sexual allure, and that her political contributions to her time seem to have been positive. |