Agrippina the Younger
Agrippina II., or Agrippina Augusta, a daughter
of the preceding, and'mother of the emperor Nero
by her first husband, Domitius. She was a woman of
abandoned principles and remorseless cruelty. She
married her father's brother, the emperor Claudius, and
afterwards poisoned him. After a life of almost uninterrupted
crime, she was put to death (a.d. ...
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Julia Agrippina, most commonly referred to as Agrippina Minor or Agrippina the Younger or Agrippinilla (Little
Agrippina) and after 50 known as Julia Augusta Agrippina (Minor Latin for the ‘younger’, Classical Latin:
IVLIA•AGRIPPINA; IVLIA•AVGVSTA•AGRIPPINA[1], 7 November 15 or 6 November 16[2] – 19/23 March 59) was a Roman Empress
and one of th...
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Daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina (supra), and mother of
the emperor Nero, was born at Oppidum Ubiorum, afterwards
called, in honour of her, Colonia Agrippina, now Cologne. She
was beautiful and intelligent, but licentious, cruel, and
ambitious. She was first married to Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus
(A.D. 28), by whom she had a son, afterwards t...
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