Agrippina Maggiore

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_388
dc.creator	Valentini Alessandra
dc.title	Agrippina Maggiore. A Matron in the Domus Augusta Politics
dc.type	Monograph
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	On October 18th of 33 AD, after five years of confinement on the island of Ventotene, Agrippina the Elder, Augstus’ niece, Germanicus Caesar’s wife, Caligula’s mother and Nero’s grandmother, died. At first she was a witness and then she assumed a leading role in the fight for the choice of the prince's heir, held up by a consistent group of supporters and animating the opposition in the Domus Augusta. In recent years scholars’ attention has been dedicated to the reconstruction of Augustus and Tiberius’ politics and to the organization of the groups animating the fight for the heir’s choice in the domus principis. To Agrippina the Elder, who assumed for decades a central role in the dynamics of the principate’s succession, scholars didn’t give specific attention, favoring, instead, the male perspective in the Augustan and Tiberian politics or the study of other women linked to men who assumed important role on the political scene. In a historical context in which the domus Augusta became the space of the political discussion and where women easily acquired spaces in the political field, Agrippina the Elder assumed an increasingly important role, acting in fields traditionally precluded to women and obtaining major possibilities to interfere in politics.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Storia ed epigrafia
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-346-5
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2019-12-03
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-347-2/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-347-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-346-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Agrippina the Elder
dc.subject	Augustan Succession
dc.subject	Augustus
dc.subject	Domus Augusta
dc.subject	Roman Empire
dc.subject	Tiberius

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Agrippina Maggiore

A Matron in the Domus Augusta Politics

Alessandra Valentini Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

On October 18th of 33 AD, after five years of confinement on the island of Ventotene, Agrippina the Elder, Augstus’ niece, Germanicus Caesar’s wife, Caligula’s mother and Nero’s grandmother, died. At first she was a witness and then she assumed a leading role in the fight for the choice of the prince's heir, held up by a consistent group of supporters and animating the opposition in the Domus Augusta. In recent years scholars’ attention has been dedicated to the reconstruction of Augustus and Tiberius’ politics and to the organization of the groups animating the fight for the heir’s choice in the domus principis. To Agrippina the Elder, who assumed for decades a central role in the dynamics of the principate’s succession, scholars didn’t give specific attention, favoring, instead, the male perspective in the Augustan and Tiberian politics or the study of other women linked to men who assumed important role on the political scene. In a historical context in which the domus Augusta became the space of the political discussion and where women easily acquired spaces in the political field, Agrippina the Elder assumed an increasingly important role, acting in fields traditionally precluded to women and obtaining major possibilities to interfere in politics.

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Dec. 3, 2019

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978-88-6969-347-2

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978-88-6969-346-5

Keywords

Roman Empire • Augustan Succession • Tiberius • Domus Augusta • Augustus • Agrippina the Elder

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