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

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

Name: Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire
ISBN: 9780300078565

Anthony A. Barrett

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Drawing on the latest archaeological, numismatic, and historical evidence, Barrett argues that Agrippina has been misjudged. Although she was ambitious, says Barrett, she made her way through ability and determination rather than by sexual allure, and her political contributions to her time seem to have been positive. After Agrippina's marriage to Claudius there was a marked decline in the number of judicial executions and there was close cooperation between the Senate and the emperor; the settlement of Cologne, founded under her aegis, was a model of social harmony; and the first five years of Nero's reign, while she was still alive, were the most enlightened of his rule. According to Barrett, Agrippina's one real failing was her relationship with her son, the monster of her own making who had her murdered in horrific and violent circumstances.

Категории:

Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Година:

1996

Издание:

New edition

Издателство:

Yale University Press

Език:

english

Страници:

330