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Detailed biography of Agripina the Younger using Tacitus and Seutonius as sources

Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 01:17:39
Category: / History
Length: 6 pages (1669 words)
Agrippina the Younger was one of nine children born to Germanicus, adopted son end nephew of Tiberius . Suetonius tells us that two of these children died in infancy and one died in early childhood . Of the six remaining children, three were girls and three were boys. These were Nero, Drusus and Gaius Caesar , and Agrippina the Younger, Drusilla and Livilla . Suetonius also tells us that Tiberius later brought charges against Nero and Drusus and had …
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…and make it look like she was plotting to have him assassinated but committed sluiced upon hearing the plot had failed . Tacitus tells us that although Agrippina announced to her killers that she believed her son was not behind this murder, when the lieutenant drew his sword to kill her she pointed to her womb and cried "Strike here!" . And so blow after blow Agrippina was killed and her extraordinary life came to an end.
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