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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

Table of contents

	Contents
	List of Illustrations	VII
	Foreword	XII
	Significant Events and Figures	XVII
1	Background	1
2	Family	13
3	Daughter	22
4	Sister	40
5	Niece	71
6	Wife	95
7	Mother	143
8	The End	181
9	Sources	196
	Appendix I The Year of Agrippina the Younger’s Birth	230
	Appendix II The Husbands of Domitia and Lepida	233
	Appendix III The Date of Nero’s Birth	234
	Appendix IV The Family of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus	235
	Appendix V Agrippina’s Movements in Late 39	236
	Appendix VI The Date of Seneca’s Tutorship	237
	Appendix VII The Decline in Agrippina’s Power	238
	Appendix VIII The Patronage of Seneca and Burrus in 54-9	241
	Appendix IX SC on Gold and Silver Coins of Nero	243
	Appendix X The Final Days of Agrippina	244
	Abbreviations	247
	Notes and References	252
	Bibliography	305
	Index	324

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