Agrippina the Younger
6/29/202651 min
Agrippina the Younger was one of the most powerful players in Roman history: a ruthless political operator who clawed her way to co-rule the empire, only to be murdered by the son she put on the throne. We're joined by historian Dr Emma Southon to unravel the extraordinary, blood-soaked life of Rome's most formidable woman.
Emma's latest book is called "Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire".
Produced by Mariana Des Forges and edited by Dougal Patmore.
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Have you been enjoying my podcast and now want even more history? Sign up to History Hit and watch the world's best history documentaries on subjects like how William conquered England, what it was like to live in the Georgian era, and you can even hear the voice of Richard III. We've got hundreds of hours of original documentaries, plus new releases every week, and there's always something more to discover. Sign up to join us in historic locations around the world and explore the past. Just visit historyhit.com/subscribe. [gentle music] The only Roman colony named after a woman is the Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, and it's a colony that survived. Today, it is Cologne in modern Germany. It was named after a woman who sat at the very heart of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, that first family that forged the Roman Principate, the Rome of the emperors. She was the great-granddaughter, the sister, the niece, the wife, the mother of emperors. She took the title Augusta, Empress, and she meant to rule as one. You're listening to Dan Snow's History Hit. In this episode, we are talking about Agrippina, the woman who fused through her mother and father the blood of Augustus and Mark Antony, the two successors of Julius Caesar. The woman who may well have killed not just one,