Agrippina the Elder
Reece Period attributed: Period 2
Member of the Julio-Claudians dynasty.
Coins for this issuer were issued from -14 until 33.
Agrippina was born in Athens, Greece. In AD 5 she married Germanicus, her second cousin and step-grandson of the Emperor Augustus.
Agrippina had nine children by Germanicus, three of whom died in infancy; the surviving six were:
- Nero Caesar
- Drusus Caesar
- Gaius (Caligula, future Emperor)
- Agrippina the Younger, mother of Emperor Nero
- Julia Drusilla
- Julia Livilla
She was regarded by her peers as a woman of the highest character, moral but arrogant and ambitious for herself and her family. In Tacitus' Annals 6.25 he commented:
...could not endure equality and loved to domineer,  with her masculine aspirations was far removed from the frailties of women...
On the surface it appears that she was a victim of tyranny; dig deeper and she had done much to provoke her fate.
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Wikipedia derived information
Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder was a distinguished and prominent granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus.
Agrippina was the wife of the general, statesman Germanicus and a relative to the first Roman Emperors. She was the second granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law, stepdaughter and daughter-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, mother of the Emperor Caligula, maternal second cousin and sister-in-law of the Emperor Claudius and the maternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero..
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