Dr Emma Southon

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

So she goes and lives in Asia for a while.

She lives in Turkey.

He becomes consul.

So she's the wife of a consul.

So she's just a kind of very high profile woman.

But she is raising Nero, who is now 10, 11 years old, is growing up and she is raising him in public and doing everything that she can to increase his visibility, really.

Messalina is the empress at this time and the early years of Claudius's reign are quite chaotic.

There are a good couple of attempts to kill him.

There's a rebellion in Pannonia.

There's quite a few people really hate him.

He has loads of people executed and Messalina is quite messy in her way.

And so Agrippina kind of keeps her head down and is very well behaved apart from possibly killing her husband.

But that's fine in Roman times.

The theory is that she kills her husband because he's very, very rich.

And she does not have very much money of her own because all of it was confiscated by Clicla.

And pretty much all of her wealth is tied up in Nero.

It's really Nero's wealth.

So she can't control anything herself anymore.

But if her husband dies and he happens to have changed his will quite recently to make her his sole heir, which he did, then she then has all of his money.

And he has something like 200 million sesterces.

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