Agrippina : Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire

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Agrippina : Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early EmpireAgrippina 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

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