Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire by Barrett, Anthony A - 1999-07-11

Yale University Press, 1999-07-11. Paperback. Good. 0.7874 9.1339 6.0630.

Yale University Press, 1999. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good. Some jacket wear from storage..

Yale University Press, 1999. First Paperback Ed. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 6x0x9. No highlighting, underlining or any other marks. Yale University Press, 1999. Trade Paperback First Paperback Ed,Second Printing. The book condition is Fine.

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Paperback / softback. New. Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her success by plotting against her brother, the emperor Caligula, murdering her husband, the emperor Claudius, and controlling her son, the emperor Nero, by sleeping with him. Modern scholars tend to accept this verdict. But in his dynamic biography-the first on Agrippina in English-Anthony Barrett paints a startling new picture of this influential woman. Drawing on the latest archaeological, numismatic, and historical evidence, Barrett argues that Agrippina has been misjudged. Although she was ambitious, says Barrett, she made her way through ability and determination rather than by sexual allure, and her political contributions to her time seem to have been positive. After Agrippina's marriage to Claudius there was a marked decline in the number of judicial executions and there was close cooperation between the Senate and the… Read More

Yale Univ Pr, 1999. Paperback. New. 330 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches.

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Yale University Press, 1999-07-11. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!