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Representing Agrippina : constructions of female power in the early Roman Empire
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ISBN: 0190292768 1280428511 0195346157 1423762002 1602565546 9781423762003 9780195346152 9780195181418 0195181417 0197705049 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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This study of Agrippa the Younger, who ranks as one of the most powerful women in the history of the Roman empire, exposes both the contrivances of the commissioned artists, whose portraits served to buttress the image of the regime, and the designs of the historians, who aimed to undermine it.

Agrippina
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ISBN: 113461862X 1134618638 1280333855 0585461074 0203012356 9780585461076 9780203481066 0203481062 0585453705 9780585453705 9780203012352 9781134618637 041520867X 0713468548 9780713468540 9786610333851 6610333858 9780415208673 0749308125 Year: 1996 Publisher: London Batsford

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In this dynamic new biography - the first on Agrippina in English - Professor Barrett uses the latest archaeological, numismatic and historical evidence to provide a close and detailed study of her life and career. He shows how Agrippina's political contribution to her time seems in fact to have been positive, and that when she is judged by her achievements she demands admiration. Revealing the true figure behind the propaganda and the political machinations of which she was capable, he assesses the impact of her marriage to the emperor Claudius, on the country and her family. Finally, he exposed her one real failing - her relationship with her son, the monster of her own making to whom, in horrific and violent circumstances, she would eventually fall victim.

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