Dr Emma Southon
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first heard Jun 2026
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We have images of her sitting next to Claudius as his equal on the days when they are receiving delegations.
She appears in public wearing like a military cloak and military clothing.
She is very, very involved.
in a very public way with making decisions about the empire.
It's very clear that people are coming to her.
As a comparison, for example, when Tiberius became emperor and Livia was named Augusta, Tiberius banned senators from going to her house.
She was not allowed to meet with senators one-on-one, the only person.
that she could talk to about politics was him.
She could try to persuade him of stuff and he could reject it.
Whereas Agrippina is clearly engaging with the Senate, engaging with the wider structures.
She is making decisions for the empire effectively on her own, or at least as an equal with Claudius as the two of them.
to the extent that she has, by this time, the wars in Germany have mostly concluded.
And so she founds a city, a colony, where she was born, which is called Colonia Agrippinensis, which we now call Cologne.
She does.
She manages to persuade Claudius to undergo a series of fairly complicated legal maneuvers to have his daughter adopted by another family so that she can marry Nero, who becomes Nero because he is adopted by Claudius.
thus disinheriting his own biological son, Britannicus.
Octavia is adopted out, Nero is adopted in, and Britannicus is shoved off to the sidelines.
He becomes Nero at this point, Tiberius Claudius Nero, and he is both his son and his son-in-law.
He's about five years older than Britannicus.
Yes.
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