erin-studyblrs:thetwelvecaesars:erin-studyblrs:thetwelvecaesars:erin-studyblrs:thetwelvecaesars:fand

erin-studyblrs:thetwelvecaesars:erin-studyblrs:thetwelvecaesars:erin-studyblrs:thetwelvecaesars:fandom2much4me:thetwelvecaesars:erin-studyblrs:thetwelvecaesars:erin-studyblrs:Library game strong today. I’m working on Ann essay about influential women in Ancient Rome, specifically Agrippina the younger.This is awesome. Agrippina the Younger needs a lot more good attention. She’s honestly really fascinating? Especially cause Tacitus and Cassius Dio are both like she was an influential woman therefore she’s evil. So like reading between the lines for her really reveals a lot, ya feelShe is interesting. Because Agrippina I feel was slandered like Livia (thanks, Graves. Not.) I feel that Agrippina may be a bit twisted and mean, but that doesn’t mean she’s 100% evil. I know she might also be a bit messed up too because of Gaius.She’s definitely someone who needs to be examined in detail before assumptions can be made. She may have made political machinations but then again which upper class romans (senators) weren’t. Besides the fact she was one of the most powerful women in the ancient world which is pretty neat. And then she’s related by birth or marriage to 3 different emperors: Caligula, Claudius, and Nero.I agree. And also, Romans were not very respectful of women. And oh! She was, wasn’t she? I didn’t realise that she was related to 3 until now! XD (I mean, I didn’t COUNT) But you’re right! I also think that she could be a lot like Livia, but I need to read more up on her. But I feel that Agrippina was very different from Livia, though. She’s more… stern, in my head.Same! Livia is more just hanging out in the background and yea she influenced Augustus but it wasn’t even close to what Agrippina accomplished. It’s pretty impressive that she got Claudius to adopt her son, and who would eventually become emperor. It obviously sucks that she was eventually killed because of it but that’s what happened in Ancient Rome when you posed a threat to an emperor with no natal qualms about killing family membersWell, to me, I feel that Nero just didn’t like her. (Or liked her too much.) And to me, Nero was rather dumb. He really was. I feel that Livia did a lot of wonderful things like kept the Empire running while Tiberius was off on his various islands doing icky things. And yes, anyone who intruded on the emperor’s power did tend to get killed.Tbh I don’t know as much about Livia as I do about Agrippina, just cause the sources we’re looking at don’t focus on her especially. Also yea Nero was pretty stupid in terms of being a good emperor and keeping the empire going; he was kind of the literal worst with his Golden House and allHah, funny. I know more about Livia than Agrippina! I need to re-read Nero’s section in Suetonius. And he was pretty stupid. I think that Tiberius wins the worst emperor ever, prize. But Nero comes in second in my book because of Sporus. But yeah. Taking all that money from the people to build his palace… Ugh. But then again, Caligula auctioned off stuff when he was broke. Personally from what I’ve learned so far, Tiberius actually wasn’t too bad at being emperor. He might have been a crappy person but he didn’t drive the empire any further down the rabbit hole. But Nero and Caligula, oh boy they are just the worst. They didn’t do anything for the empire and squandered lots of money and just were overall so selfish and gross. And Nero especially had so many people killed because they didn’t agree with him, and while emperors had being doing that for awhile (cough Octavian before becoming Augustus cough) it’s still pretty badTrue. Gaius and Nero did tend to kill a lot of people. But Tiberius did as well. He created the first reign of terror in Rome and also, he was like a living Zeus. he slept with anything that moved. Literally ANYTHING. So, I personally thing that overall, he was the worst. Did you happen to read his section in Suetonius? And yes, Nero and Gaius both did horrible things, but in comparison, I think Tiberius was worse. -- source link

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