Agrippina: Mother of Nero by Barrett, Anthony A.

Agrippina: Mother of Nero (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415208673)

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Agrippina: Mother of Nero by Barrett, Anthony A.

Agrippina: Mother of Nero

$49.95
Agrippina: Mother of Nero by Barrett, Anthony A.

Agrippina: Mother of Nero

$49.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Anthony A. Barrett
ISBN-10: 041520867X
ISBN-13: 9780415208673
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/26/1999
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
By Anthony A. Barrett
By Anthony A. Barrett
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Anthony Barrett is Professor of Classics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He studied at the Universities of Oxford, Durham and Toronto and has written extensively in the field of classical antiquity.

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