Agrippina: Rome's Most Powerful Empress?

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

She was a woman of unparalleled power, descended from Julius Caesar and Augustus. But how did she get there, whilst most of the rest of her family were exiled and starved to death? And how, then, did she come to be murdered by her own son, Nero?

Today Kate is joined by Emma Southon for an introduction to this very powerful hustler, and to find out why she is so often remembered as a seductress.

*WARNING there are adult words and themes in this episode*

Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Anisha Deva.

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0:00.0	Hello my lovely Patrexters, it's me Kate Lister, I am jumping in once again to protect you from
0:06.0	yourselves and certainly protect you from me and the smut that me and my producers will insist
0:12.6	on pouring into people's ears. This is your fair dues warning. Fair dues, this is a podcast
0:18.9	about adult themes, there will be adults talking about adult themes, I'm talking about sex in adult
0:23.6	themes. And you just might not want to listen to that. This might not be for you, you might have
0:28.6	wandered in here by mistake and now you're horrified. Well this is your chance to get out now
0:33.8	where you still can because fair dues you have been wanded. Whether it's the OC, desperate
0:42.9	housewives, Dallas or a big bar fight at the Queen Vickie DeStenders, we've all seen our fair share
0:49.2	of family drama on TV. But when it comes to family drama and crazy things happening, none of that
0:57.9	has even the patch on the people we are talking about today. From being exiled for going behind
1:03.6	her brother's back to marrying her uncle to spoiler alert being murdered by her son, the story of
1:10.5	Agrippina the Younger is every bit as mad as you could imagine. And today but Twix the Sheets,
1:17.2	we are going to find out just how mad the life of Agrippina really was.
1:27.9	Hello and welcome back to the Twix the Sheets, the history of sex scandal in society with
1:57.0	me. In the first century BC Agrippina the Younger became a woman of unparalleled power in ancient
2:05.2	Rome, but how did she get herself to the top in a society where women just weren't supposed to
2:11.2	do that? And how did she manage to take her son a certain impronaro with her? I am joined by the
2:19.2	fantastic Emma Southern to find out. Enjoy!
2:27.5	Hello and welcome to the Twix the Sheets, I'm only talking to Emma Southern. How are you?
2:33.6	I have very well, thank you. Although I went for a run in the rain so I actually I feel extra,
2:38.8	I feel like a super woman today. That is like super woman. Yeah. The few times that I've been running
2:44.0	in the rain, I do feel like Rocky. I feel really tough. Yeah, it basically makes me feel incredibly
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