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Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire (Paperback or Softback)

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EAN
9780300078565
ISBN
0300078560
Binding
TP
Book Title
Agrippina : Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire
Publisher
Yale University Press
Item Length
9.2 in
Publication Year
1999
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Anthony A. Barrett
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Topic
Ancient / Rome, Historical
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Width
6.1 in
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her success by plotting against her brother, the emperor Caligula, murdering her husband, the emperor Claudius, and controlling her son, the emperor Nero, by sleeping with him. Modern scholars tend to accept this verdict. But in his dynamic biography--the first on Agrippina in English--Anthony Barrett paints a startling new picture of this influential woman. 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. Agrippina's impact was so lasting, however, that for some 150 years after her death no woman in the imperial family dared assume an assertive political role.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300078560
ISBN-13
9780300078565
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Book Title
Agrippina : Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
Ancient / Rome, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Anthony A. Barrett
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Dewey Edition
21
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
937/.07/092 B

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