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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• Preferred label: Agrippina the Elder
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• Definition: Vipsania Agrippina, most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder (Major Latin for the elder, Classical Latin: AGRIPPINA•GERMANICI, 14 BC – 17/18 October AD 33), was a distinguished and prominent Roman woman of the first century CE. Agrippina was the wife of the general and 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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  • 1st-century Romans
  • Burials at the Mausoleum of Augustus
  • Vipsanii
  • 14 BC births
  • 1st-century BC Romans
  • 1st-century women
  • 1st-century BC women
  • Deaths by starvation
  • Women in 1st-century warfare
  • 33 deaths
  • Ancient Roman women in warfare
  • Julio-Claudian dynasty