agrippina in A Sentence

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    Agrippina tried to micro-manage every aspect of her son's life, from the personal to the political.

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    After Nero's father died in 48 A.D., his mother Agrippina married her uncle, the emperor Claudius.

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    When Claudius died in 54 C.E., most Romans thought it was with a little help from Agrippina.

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    After Nero's father died in 48 AD his mother Agrippina married her uncle the Roman emperor Claudius.

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    She was executed, and Claudius married Agrippina, who reportedly murdered him with a supper of poisonous mushrooms.

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    Her powers of persuasion were obviously substantial, since Agrippina convinced Claudius to name Nero as his successor over his own son, Britannicus, and he threw in his daughter Octavia's hand in marriage to boot.

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    When all of these failed- in part, one source says, because Agrippina was wise to him and did things like take antidotes to certain poisons- he opted for a less dramatic, but far more effective, simple stabbing.

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