ROME'S FIRST LADY
Julia Agrippina is best remembered now as the tyrannical mother of mad emperor Nero, or as the overbearing and murderous wife of the emperor Claudius. Rarely she is remembered as the sister of another emperor Gaius (Caligula). She is almost never, however, remembered as a woman in her own right, free from the distorting lens of her male relatives.
For real power, Agrippina went further and achieved more than was expected of Roman women
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