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On November 6 in 15 (or 16) A.D. Agrippina the Younger (Agrippina minor) was born at Ara Ubiorum, in Germany. Her name was Julia Agrippina. She was a daughter of Agrippina the Elder and the very popular Germanicus Julius Caesar. Emperor Caligula was her brother and Emperor Claudius was her uncle, as well as a husband. To an earlier husband, Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, Agrippina the Younger bore Nero, who became emperor after the death of his step-father Claudius. Agrippina was suspected of poisoning her imperial husband after he made arrangements for Nero to succeed him. She also wrote memoirs Juvenal the satirist may have used as reference material.
References:
- John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon, Antony J. S. Spawforth "Agrippina" The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. Ed. Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Oxford University Press, 1998.
- To Those Who Fell on Agrippina's Pen, by Jerry Clack The Classical World © 1975
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