Preview: Nero: Agrippina the Younger: Conversation with author Anthony Everitt, author of "Nero," regarding Agrippina's ambition to become the emperor of Rome along with or in place of her son, Nero. More later.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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undated Claudius begs the Praetorian Guard not to slay him after Caligula was murdered by the same Praetorian Guard.
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| 0:30.0 | This is John Bachelor speaking with Anthony Everett, the author of Nero, Matricide, |
| 0:36.8 | music and murder in Imperial Rome. This is the famous Emperor who commits |
| 0:41.4 | suicide at the end because he doesn't want to be |
| 0:43.5 | tortured to death by the Senate. Nero. What's important here is that the book |
| 0:49.1 | could have been named Acropina, Acropina Minor, Agropina the younger, Niro's mother, very powerful person, Germanicus |
| 0:57.9 | his daughter, in the Julian-Claudean reign. Agrippina was everything. Nero was an actor, a man who liked |
| 1:08.2 | to perform on the stage, but he knew that his mother wanted to be well Anthony will explain |
| 1:15.4 | Agrippina minor Agrippina the younger her mother was named Agrippina as well. |
| 1:32.0 | Anthony Everett explaining Agrippina, the first female Emperor of Rome was her intention. |
| 1:33.2 | And she was turned back by her son's matricide. |
| 1:39.6 | More of this later. |
| 1:42.4 | Niro was born in 37 AD. |
| 1:44.0 | It's a breached birth. |
| 1:45.0 | There's a prophecy. |
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