Agrippina: Mother of Nero

ISBN-13: 9780415208673 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 364 str.

Anthony A Barrett

Opis

This study uses recent archaeological, numismatic and historical evidence to reveal the character of Agrippina, a key imperial figure of classical antiquity. She was the sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius and mother of Nero. She attained a level of power unprecedented for a woman in first century Rome with a lifestyle which embraced treachery, incest and murder. Barrett assesses the historical and personal impact of Agrippina's marriage to the emperor Claudius and explores her relationship with her son, Nero, the monster of her own making.

Recenzje

'The most valuable part of the book is the inventory of source material at the end where not only the more familiar literary evidence is catalogued but the coins, statues and inscriptions featuring Agrippina.' - Miriam Griffin, History Today

Spis treści

Significant events and figures; background; family; daughter; sister; niece; wife; mother; the end; sources appendices: the year of Agrippina the younger's birth; the husbands of Domitia and Lepida III; the date of Nero's birth; the family of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus; Agrippina's movements in late 39; the date of Seneca's tutorship; the decline in Agrippina's power; the patronage of Seneca and Burrus in 54-9; SC on gold and silver coins of Nero; the final days of Agrippina.

O autorze

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.