• Death of an Empress: Nero and Agrippina | Story + Historical Commentary

  • Jan 3 2025
  • Durée: 37 min
  • Podcast

Death of an Empress: Nero and Agrippina | Story + Historical Commentary

  • Résumé

  • A revised version of an earlier episode, now with historical commentary following the story!


    The Roman emperor Nero's murder of his own mother, the empress Agrippina the Younger, is among his most shocking crimes. A lurid tale of power, conspiracy, and violence emerges as the unstable Nero plots the death of an empress.


    A story from Roman history (Early Imperial Period, Julio-Claudian dynasty, 59 AD), based on Tacitus' Annals, featuring: Agrippina the Younger (Julia Agrippina), Nero, Seneca, Burrus, Anicetus


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    CREDITS


    Music by Kevin MacLeod


    Thumbnail Images: Relief of Nero and Agrippina from the Sebasteion in Aphrodisias, Turkey: c. 54-59 CE, Aphrodisias Museum
    View from the Amalfi Coast, Italy

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