Dr Emma Southon
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Hello, Dan.
It's lovely to be here.
Agrippina the Younger was born in 15 CE in Cologne, in what is now Cologne, but at the time was called Ara Ubiorum, which was outside of the Roman Empire at the time.
So she is born as the daughter of the guy who is charged with basically leading revenge against the Germanic peoples who had come together to try and push the Romans out of Germany.
And the revenge tour is being at this time led by a guy called Germanicus.
Everyone loved Germanicus except his adoptive father, Tiberius.
The Germans hated him very badly because he spent a lot of time setting fire to their villages and enslaving them.
So he is her father and her mother is Agrippina the Elder, who is a direct descendant of Augustus, the now divine Augustus.
Oh yeah, you could still feel it well into her adulthood, right up until Agrippina's death when she's in her 40s.
And then long after that, because he dies young and never gets to be the emperor that he is supposed to be.
And because he does things like he acts as a public defender for people for free.
And he is very charitable and he's very handsome and he's charming.
He's kind of the Princess Diana of the early Roman Empire.
Yeah.
And he's great at war.
The only thing that anyone can ever say about him is that he is bandy-legged.
That's like the worst thing that anyone can ever pull out.
And it's not really his fault.
She would have a very strong sense of entitlement, partly because she is the first generation who are born into royalty properly.
So everyone before her, her parents were born into the Roman Republic.
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