Dr Emma Southon

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Dan Snow's History Hit · Agrippina the Younger: Rome's Most Notorious Empress · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

And so she has one boy and stops, which I also think is pretty interesting because she has two further husbands.

And the boy is christened, is born as Lucius Ahenobarbus, and we now know him as Nero.

Yeah, by his adoptive name, yeah.

Yes, it's very reasonable because Caligula is pretty young and he's also quite messy.

And there is at the time that he is born, there are no other children in the family.

So he is the first of his generation.

And so there is a very real possibility that he will be the most prominent member of his generation.

And that is what she is probably hoping for because what she does about two years into Caligula's reign, so really quite early into Caligula's reign, is she's embroiled in a conspiracy to overthrow him with another of her sisters and her sister's husband.

Yes, because for whatever reason, they don't think that Caligula is up to it.

The plan seems to be that they're going to put the brother-in-law in charge and

And they're going to make him the emperor because obviously he's another cousin.

And that they're going to try to remove Caligula from the throne.

And she is caught.

And there's a great scene in Suetonius where there's a kind of big showdown at a holiday house that they have.

And letters between the three of them are read aloud and they're apparently quite erotic.

And she is sent off into exile to an island in the Turian Sea.

Well, that she was also sleeping with her brother-in-law, yes.

I mean, they're cousins, so it is still kind of incestuous, but yeah.

No, that's basically normal, yeah.

Well, we can see very little of what she's actually doing because all of the texts really are about either her brother or her uncle.

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