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Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore

Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore

Ancient HistoryBiography
Pages
285
Published
2018
Language
English

Synopsis

Discover the true story of Agrippina, a woman history has tried to erase. She defied the patriarchal power structures of ancient Rome, demanding recognition as a leader and an equal. Despite her influence as sister, wife, and mother to emperors, her ambition led to her downfall. This is the account of an Empress who navigated the brutal, opulent, and chaotic world of the Roman Empire.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

InformativeReflectiveThought-ProvokingComplex
Morally GreyAnti-HeroRevengeBetrayal

Genres

Ancient History Biography Biography & Memoir History

About the author

E
Emma Southon

Emma Southon is a British historian of ancient Rome, born in Brighton. She holds a PhD in Ancient History from the University of Birmingham (2013); her doctoral research was published as Marriage, Sex and Death: The Family and the Fall of the Roman West. After several years teaching ancient and medieval history and academic writing, she left academia to write and podcast full time. She is the author of Agrippina (a biography of the mother of Nero), A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,...