Agrippina The Younger, Roman Empress



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Agrippina was the great granddaughter of the first Roman Emperor, Augustus; the grand niece of the second Emperor, Tiberius, the sister of the third, Caligula, wife of the fourth, Claudius and mother of the fifth, Nero. After several personal tragedies, Agrippina became ruthless in her pursuit of security and power. As a woman, she couldn’t rule herself, so she manipulated and murdered her way into the Emperors bed; then secured her own son’s place on the throne. Only to have him turn on her and order her elaborate assassination.

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33 thoughts on “Agrippina The Younger, Roman Empress”

  1. According to a documentary about Nero, he only burned down houses to stop the fire. That's a strategy used by firefighters until today (though mainly in forrests, not in an inhabited area). The historians consider it unlikely that he ordered the fire, as he was the one who lost most from it. And after the fire, he let the homeless live in houses owned by him and lowered the food prices. He wasn't all that bad. A lot is just propaganda by his enemies. Though he probaby wasn't a pleasant person, he wasn't quite as bad. And he blamed the fire on the Christians after many people blamed him for it.

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  2. Agrippina the Younger was the focus of my thesis paper almost a year ago. Trying to wade through the like of Tacitus, Suetonius, and Dio to find an unbiased view on her was near impossible as my goal was to re-write her as an ideal mother and wife based on the expectations of Roman women. A not so challenging write for a woman who absolutely needed her story to be rewritten in a more positive light.
    I saw this an instantly jumped on watching it.
    Thank you for all of your amazing hard work and dedication to history.

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  3. Agrippina the Elder had many positive qualities but really, if she was convinced Tiberius killed her husband for being a threat why did she think it was a good idea to go to his capital and loudly making accusations and putting her sons in his sights, especially since even the older ones were too young to be a true threat to the Emperor at the time.

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  4. That is probably one of the most in-depth documentaries on agrippina the younger I've ever seen. It made a lot of my knowledge of Roman history click more into place. Thank you. That was excellent. And I agree, a history of the powerful women in Rome would be fascinating and I would thoroughly enjoy hearing that as well.

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  5. I have to say that Agrippina was a very interesting and important figure. This documentary shows a depth about Agripina's life since childhood though I do wish she should have been married into a much decent man Than domitius or whatever his name is.

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  6. When Caligula was unwell and almost died, people would pray to the gods for him to survive and say something like I would trade my life to save the emperor. Once Caligula was well again he made people make good on their promises to the gods by giving their lives to save caligula. Basically they had to kill themselves or they would be killed anyway. Complete psycho

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  7. Another wonderful video on fascinating women in history, thank you, Lindsay!👏
    I just wanted to ask if you can do a video on the 3 wives of Shah Mohamed Reza of Iran. I found out about them & I was so interested in them & their personal struggles, especially Princess Fawzia of Egypt, she's sooo beautiful but suffered quite a lot.

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  8. One thing I always notice is the curly hair in ancient sculpture, but the straight hair of modern Italians. I wonder if hair was really curly, or if it was just fashionable to depict it so (… as was done with physique, you know, everyone but Nero was shown as healthy and muscled no matter the truth if their bodies in real life).

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  9. Tiberius never murdered Germanicus. It was never proven and Agrippina the elder wasn’t smart at the political games at all which got her exiled. All of the stuff about Capri is rumours since it was not written during his lifetime and only one historian suggest it and also mentions it was rumours not proven facts. Tiberius is similar to Richard iii with propaganda ruining their reputation from others.

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