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Agrippina: Rome's Most Powerful Empress?

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

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Acropina Kills a Couple of Women Hesh's Jealous Of

She's with Claudius for 10 years. That's quite a while actually. I mean you know, I don't think that excuses the murder but she's put in some work there. She has and she really puts in work into making Nero like his obvious successor which is all fine until by the time you get to 59 she is in her late 30s, early 40s and Britannicus is becoming an adult. He's got jobs, he has all this stuff which was become a problem because Claudius who is never a consistent man starts talking about the possibility of co-emperors or maybe we should let him be Emperor. So she decides that she just needs to get rid of Claud

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