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Agrippina: Rome's Most Powerful Empress?
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
Did She Know She Was Married to Claudius?
The theory generally is that she kind of persuaded him into it, either by seducing him or just explaining that he was doing a very, very bad job of being emperor in the first years of his reign. He kept murdering people himself. And then his wife, Messylina, who is also relatively famous for her own antics, she's kind of amazing. She waited until Claudius went on a day trip and married someone else and had a big public wedding. While still married to the emperor. So tell me how that one works then. How do they have incest laws? Did people just not mention that at the wedding? Like what was going on there?
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