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Agrippina: Rome's Most Powerful Empress?

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

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Agropina and the Emperor and the Machiavellian Power Moves

Nero's sister-in-law from her first husband sets up this whole plot to have her exiled for treason. She waits until Nero is drunk at a party and then sends in his favorite actor to tell him that his mother is plotting against him. He immediately flies into a rage and is like arrest her execute herHave her done before morning which is what everybody wants. When they go to arrest her, she gets five years out of it so she got five more years of not being murdered which isn't bad i don't think.

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