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by Anthony A. Barrett. 330 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Anthony A. Barrett

Publisher:

   Batsford

Place of Publication:

  London  

Publication Year:

  1996
Subjects:   Agrippina,--Minor,--15-59, Nero,--Emperor Of Rome,--37-68, Empresses--Rome--Biography, Rome--History--The Five Julii, 30 B.C.-68 A.D
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Agrippina: Mother of Nero
Book by Anthony A. Barrett; Batsford, 1996
Subjects: Agrippina--Minor--15-59, Empresses--Rome--Biography, Nero--Emperor Of Rome--37-68, Rome--History--The Five Julii, 30 B.C.-68 A.D
...prefect of the guard: Tac. Ann. 15.50.4 The freedman Pallas: Tac...Nero 28.2; Dio 61.11.3-4 Agrippinas Alleged Victims mode of...into suicide: Tac. Ann. 12.59.1 53 Domitia Lepida, mother...tribune was concerned chiefly with minor judicial matters. The quaestor...
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...5. Empresses-Rome-Biography. I. Title. II...chains through Rome to the tribunal...the same terms of praise and...employed to the emperor. Tacitus comments (12.37.4): It was...towns and Rome itself crowd the banks of the river and...but also the emperor and his wife...previous year ( 12.37.4) and her inappropriate...
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...prefect of the guard: Tac. Ann. 15.50.4 The freedman Pallas: Tac...Nero 28.2; Dio 61.11.3-4 Agrippinas Alleged Victims (mode of...into suicide: Tac. Ann. 12.59.1 (53) Domitia Lepida, mother...tribune was concerned chiefly with minor judicial matters. The quaestor...
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Sons and Mothers: Agrippina, Semiramis, and the Philological Construction of Gender Roles in Early Modern Germany (Lohenstein's 'Agrippina,' 1665)
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...51 On the medieval method of the mos italicus and its afterlife in Renaissance jurisprudence, see MacLean, 1980, 68-69. 52 See, for example, Justinus, 1660, 8-12. 53 The final scene of Lohensteins Agrippina (act five) can be read as an inversion of the end of book four of Virgils Aeneid, where Dido uses the talents of a sorceress to invoke Aeneass spirit. The parallels to the Aeneid are suggested in Lohensteins notes to this scene...occupies the position of the departed Aeneas, conventionally identified as a positive figure (the future founder of Rome) in Virgils text. That her spirit is allowed to "haunt" Nero also associates her with an unjustly wronged figure from...with which Lohenstein used the editions edited by the Rhineland group is striking. 56 Cited in Kuhlmann, 342, n. 30. 57 On Forstner, see Etter, 162-66; and Stein. Forstners Notae Politicae on Tacituss Annales were published over...Behar, Pierre. Silesia Tragica: Epanouisse ment et fin de lecole dramatique silesienne dans loeuvre tragique de D.C. v. Lohenstein (1635-83). 2 vols. Wiesbaden, 1988. Boccaccio, Giovanni. Concerning Famous Women. Trans. Guido A...1968. Munich and Vienna, 1971. Ginzburg, Carlo. "Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Holmes: Clues and Scientific Method." History Workshop 9 (1980): 5-36. Glocerius. Foemina Illustris. n.p., 1687. Gossmann, Elisabeth. Das Wohlgelahrte Frauenzimmer...
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