Agrippina's Marriage to Claudius

Agrippina had gone through a number of image makeovers in her life, from pitiable daughter of germanicus to immoral harlot caligula court. With her marriage to claudius on new year's day forty nine, a d though, she crystallized into the woman history remembers as the ruthlessly ambitious empress of rome. Much like livia before her, agrippina poured her ambition into the on vessel a woman like her could use to gain and hold power in patriarchal rome.