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Agrippina: Rome's Most Powerful Empress?

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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The Roman Aristocracy Is a Rich People

All women want in the world is to be covered in gold all time. Agrippina does not like kind of gaudiness or gold. She's not a luxurious person at all. And so she never spends on shiny things and she's largely always dressed in kind of plain clothing. So you can imagine her at dinner parties with Messilina who did love shiny gold things. That is wow. Baseline behavior for the Roman aristocracy is that they're just in case you thought that these weren't incredibly expensive pearls. These are...

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