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Agrippina: Rome's Most Powerful Empress?
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
Was Agrippina Involved in Messylina's Execution?
Messylina was executed fairly reasonably. There's not really much you can do with an Empress who won't stay married to the emperor. The thing with Agrippina that everybody describes her as is that they can't understand her because she doesn't have what are considered to be traditional feminine flaws. Romans very deep in their psyche believed that women had inherent psychological flaws. One of which was that they were inherently cruel and that if you give them power over an enslaved household, they will become brutal. Could you imagine that family reunion? Yeah.
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