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AGRIPPINA , the " younger " (A.D. 16-59), daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the See also:

elder, See also:sister of Caligula and See also:mother of See also:Nero, was See also:born at Oppidum Ubiorum on the See also:Rhine, afterwards named in her See also:honour Colonia Agrippinae (mod. See also:Cologne). Her See also:life was notorious for intrigue and perfidy. By her first See also:husband, Gnaeus Domitius See also:Ahenobarbus, she was the mother of the See also:emperor Nero; her second husband was Passienus Crispus, whom she was accused of poisoning. Assisted by the influential freedman See also:Pallas, she induced her See also:uncle the emperor See also:Claudius to marry her after the See also:death of Messalina, and adopt the future Nero as See also:heir to the See also:throne in See also:place of See also:Britannicus. Soon afterwards she poisoned Claudius and secured the throne for her son, with the intention of practically ruling on his behalf. Being alarmed at the See also:influence of the freedwoman Acte over Nero, she threatened to support the claims of the rightful heir Britannicus. Nero thereupon murdered the See also:young See also:prince and decided to get rid of his mother. Pretending a re-conciliation, he invited her to Baiae, where an See also:attempt was made to drown her on a See also:vessel especially constructed to founder. As this proved a failure, he had her put to death at her See also:country See also:house. Agrippina wrote See also:memoirs of her times, referred to by See also:Tacitus (See also:Ann. iv.

53). Her See also:

character is set forth in See also:Racine's Britannicus. See Tac. Ann. xii., xiii., xiv.; Dio See also:Cassius lix.-Ixi.; Suetonius, Nero, 34; Stahr, Agrippina, See also:die Mutter Neros (1880); Raffay, Die Memoiren der Kaiserin Agrippina (1884); B. W. See also:Henderson, The Life and Principate of the Emperor Nero (1903); also See also:article NERO.

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