Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire
by
Judith Ginsburg
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Agrippina the Younger, wife of the emperor Claudius and mother of his successor Nero, wielded power and authority at the center of the Roman empire in ways unmatched by almost any other woman in Roman history. Such, at least, is the portrait of Agrippina delivered by our sources and perpetuated in...