Rome’s hardball politics were off-limits to women, yet this great-granddaughter of Augustus won power for herself and her son, Nero, who would later have her murdered. Agrippina’s portraits often ...

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Julia Agrippina or Agrippina the Younger was born November 6th in the year 15 C.E. Among classists, she was considered the most powerful and ruthless women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, and yet many ...

Messalina's sex life got Romans gossiping, but what they really feared was her lust for power. Sex symbolArtworks, such as the Eugene Brunet 1884 sculpture, often emphasize Messalina’s notoriety as a ...

Disfigured, awkward and clumsy, Claudius (10 BC – 54 AD / Reigned 41 – 54 AD) was the black sheep of his family and an unlikely emperor. Once in place, he was fairly successful, but his poor taste in ...

This remarkable biography from historian Southon (Marriage, Sex, and Death) follows Agrippina the Younger (15–59 CE), who, “as the daughter of an Imperator, the sister, niece, wife and mother of ...

Nevertheless, cunning Messalina is always one step ahead and manages to seduce Caligula's uncle, Claudius. Then, an unexpected pregnancy paves the way for betrayal and murder, as Agrippina seizes the ...