#agrippina minor

[uncleclaudius]

Agrippina crowning her son Nero, Sebasteion, Aphrodisias, modern Turkey.

#nero #emperor nero #agrippina #agrippina the younger #agrippina minor #ancient rome #roman empire #roman history #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient art #julio claudian dynasty #antiquity

[wolframpant]

Ava Gardner as Agrippina in AD (1985 Miniseries)

#agrippina the younger #agrippina minor #anno domini 1985 #ava gardner #she is gorgeous #and probably my favourite portrayal of her #ancient rome #perioddramaedit

[cesareeborgia]

↳ family trees + Julio-Claudian dynasty (limited to the main figures)

requested by anonymous

#this took forever #name a more complicated family tree than them #augustus #livia drusilla #octavia minor #julia the elder #tiberius #drusus the elder #antonia minor #agrippina the elder #germanicus #claudius #caligula #agrippina the younger #nero #ancient rome #julio-claudian dynasty #ancient history #familytrees* #creations* #requested* #my gifs #historyedit

[glowing-starlight]

Women of I, Claudius(1976)

#i claudius #perioddramaedit #iclaudiusedit #ancient rome #tvedit #i claudius 1976 #*mystuff #livia drusilla #antonia minor #livilla #messalina #agrippina #julia #vipsania

[liviasdrusillas]

“father, you shouldn’t have left me alone like this. i’m not sure how much longer i can keep doing this. It’s eating me alive.”// domina 2.02

#domina mgm+ #livia drusilla #drusus nero #augustus #marcus agrippa #antonia the elder #antonia minor #iullus antonius #vipsania agrippina #tiberius nero #domina tv #domina mgm #domina tv show #period drama #perioddramaedit

[mostspirited]

Favourite Julio claudian couples?

Augustus and Livia:

I have been a Livia stan since I read her biography and she is an icon that demanded love from the Caesar Augustus. Yes I am drawing my own conclusion from mediocre at best historical sources, but they really did love each other. He cared about her opinion enough he took notes when he asked her thoughts on matters of state, he was very affectionate when addressing her in letters, and they ended up staying together for 50+ years despite never having children (which was actually considered grounds for friendly/no one at fault divorce in Rome). He also allowed her a lot of autonomy for a woman and made sure she was set financially after he died. I think she knew how to play her part and really did run things behind the scenes.

Germanicus and Agrippina:

The greatest Emperor and Empress there never was. While I think they may have been a little wary of marrying each other at first (they basically grew up together), it does seem that they grew to love each other. Augustus clearly favored Agrippina (evidenced that she wasn’t forced to marry as a pre-teen to an old man) and I get the impression that Augustus wished she was a male because she had the same drive and ambition as her brothers and he could have named her heir. I think it’s sweet that Germanicus insisted on having her follow him into war zones (maybe because he loved her so much) and that she was brave enough and willing to risk going with him. Agrippina really went to her grave defending her husband’s honor and trying to seek justice. (I personally don’t think Tiberius gave the orders if it was poisoning, but it’s hard to not blame him for not seeing through Sejanus’ manipulation). I think they need more recognition in history because he seemed like a genuine, kind Roman and she really girlbossed it up.

And I’m going to give a special mention to Antonia and Drusus:

I feel like, while not a lot is written about them, they clearly loved each other as she was very adamant about not wanting to remarry despite Augustus’ insistence and being a very young widow. It seems in writings of the time that Augustus favored Drusus over Tiberius so the circumstances of his death were very sad and tragic. And despite Antonia’s flaws (aka her dislike of her son Claudius) she somewhat laid the blueprint that Agrippina followed when Germanicus died and she clearly was second to Livia when it came to important women in Rome.

#ancient rome #ask anon #livia drusilla #augustus #agrippina the elder #germanicus #Drusus #Antonia minor

[wardrobeoftime]

thanks for answering my question! Whenever you have more time for requests for Domina can you do the outfits of the kids generation like Marcella, Antonina, Antonia, Vipsania and Julia and maybe some of the guys too? Thank you!! :)

Sure. I still have an outstanding request from season 01 about Marcella and Antonia anyway, so I will combine these. I already did Julia's from the first season btw.

#Domina Sky #Domina (2021) #Antonia the Elder #Antonia Major #Antonia Minor #Antonina #Julia Augusti filia #Julia the Elder #Vipsania Agrippina #Claudia Marcella Major #requests

[duxfemina]

Who of the many women that surrounded Mark Antony could you see yourself being FRIENDS with? Not who you admire the most but who you'd enjoy drinks and dishing the dirt with the most

It's honestly kind of hilarious how the "Julio-Claudian" Dynasty is really a bunch of Antonians. Over half of the emperors and most of the influential women of the family are all Antonians

#cleopatra selene #cleopatra #fulvia #octavia #antonia #Tiberius #agrippina #Augustus #agrippina the younger #germanicus #julia the elder #julio claudian dynasty #julio Claudians #roman history #ancient rome #mark antony #marcus antonius #roman empire #how often do you think about the roman empire #julius caesar #augustus #caesar #caligula #claudius #Cicero #Dolabella #marcus tullius cicero #cytheris #volumnia Cytheris #roman courtesans

[theantonian]

Emperor Claudius died on this day in 54 AD.

He was 63 and had reigned for 13 years and 9 months. He was allegedly murdered by poison, either via mushrooms he ate or on a feather. His wife and niece, Agrippina the Younger, was the chief suspect.

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, commonly known as Claudius, was the fourth Roman emperor, reigning from AD 41 to 54. He was born on August 1, 10 BC in Lugdunum, Gaul (modern-day Lyon, France). Claudius was the grandson of Triumvir Marcus Antonius through his daughter, Antonia minor. He was the first Roman emperor to be born outside of Italy. He was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and was declared emperor by the Praetorian Guard after Caligula’s assassination. Despite his lack of experience, Claudius was an able and efficient administrator. He expanded the imperial bureaucracy to include freedmen and helped restore the empire’s finances after the excesses of Caligula’s reign. He was also an ambitious builder, constructing new roads, aqueducts, and canals across the Empire. During his reign, the Empire started its successful conquest of Britain.

#Claudius #emperor claudius #otd #this day in history #mark antony #marcus antonius #history #rome #ancient rome #roman history #roman republic #roman empire

[theromaboo]

6 and 8 for the history ask meme!

I sorry I took so long to answer this! I kept putting off answering and then I kind of forgot.

6. HF I never expected to like as much as I do

I think it has to be Claudius. For context, we're going to have to back up a few years.

When I was a little hellaboo and loved ancient Greece and stuff, I vowed NEVER EVER to like ancient Rome. I HATED ancient Rome and I was always like "Omg I'd never forgive myself if I started liking Roman history! Ancient Rome is the worst and ancient Greece is the best and it's everyone's problem!" Yes, I was that type of ancient Greece fan :(

And then I found out about Claudius and fell in love with him. Lol!

8. An obscure HF who needs more love

Britannicus!

I'd kill for a historical fiction novel—or any historical media for that matter—from his perspective. It would be so interesting! He's often kind of forgotten in the late Julio-Claudian dynasty. If he ever shows up in historical fiction, he's mostly just used as a little side piece to show how evil Nero and/or Agrippina are. We never often get to see what he thinks and details about him and stuff like that, which is a shame.

I think historical fiction about him has so many opportunities to be amazing and interesting! I liked Kento Ankokuden Cestvs because it actually got into a bit of detail about Brit and his emotions and his relationship with Octavia. Alas, Britannicus is only a minor character in it.

With actual non-fiction historical works, not going to lie, I can't blame them for not going very in depth with Britannicus. Because honestly, we don't know that much about him. He was also a child and not very important most of the time. So I totally understand why the modern sources about him are a little sparse.

But, I am yet to find a true deep dive into whether he was poisoned or not in English! At least, one I'm happy with. Anthony A. Barrett doesn't count; he wrote like one paragraph and failed to go into detail. Anyway, I do think maybe we Anglophones should step up a little with Britannicus in academia. The French are beating us!

"Well why do you like Britannicus so much?" you might ask. And I don't know honestly. I liked him for a reason, but at some point, I forgot that reason and continued liking him. And now, I've just been liking him for so long that of course I'm going to continue liking him.

#ancient rome #roman history #britannicus #just-late-roman-republic-things #history asks #asks

[wolframpant]

Laura Morante as Agrippina in Imperium: Nerone

#agrippina the younger #agrippina minor #julio claudian dynasty #roman empire #ancient rome #imperium: nerone #perioddramaedit

[lizbethborden]

Honestly adding Agrippina Minor to my list of historical women I need tattoos of

[akathecentimetre]

I was tagged by @vera-dauriac!

✨When you get this, you have to put 5 songs you actually listen to, then tag 10 of your followers✨ (non-obligatory)

CLASSICAL MUSIC EDITION because you all can tell where my brain has been recently... tagging whoever wants to do it!

1. Handel's Agrippina, duet between Ottone and Poppea, 'No, no, ch'io non apprezzo' ; performed by Iestyn Davies and Elsa Benoit, Bayerische Staatsoper, 2019. Handel did not write a single bad duet, and this is one of the most stunning. Some modern productions cut it or separate it into 2 solo arias based on past performance variants, which is a real shame.

2. Sergei Rachmaninoff, 'The Isle of the Dead,' Op. 29. The shifts from 2-3 to 3-2 rhythms in the overall 5-4 scheme drive me feral, and the whole piece is incredibly cinematic and evocative. Plus, water music is the best music.

3. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 'Job.' I was lucky enough to attend a weekend of this week's Bard Festival, where I discovered to general delight that the stereotypical (and lovely!) Lark Ascending / Theme of Thomas Tallis RVW represents maybe 5% of his overall work, which is varied, strange, and always fascinating. This was performed to a presentation of Blake's drawings on the Old Testament story and it was breathtaking.

4. Louis Vierne, Finale of Organ Symphony No. 1 in D Minor. I mean. This is wall-shaking. I adore it.

5. Philip Glass, Akhnaten Act 1, Scene 3: Window of Appearances. Can you tell yet that I love a good long crescendo?

#about me #classical music #Youtube

[liviasdrusillas]

Antonia, Livia's daughter-in-law, obviously enjoyed her company. After the death of Drusus, she chose to remain a univira and live close to Livia. Livia kept Julia the Younger going during her long exile (hypocritically, according to Tacitus), with financial and probably emotional support as well. Julia's daughter, Agrippina the Elder, was shielded from Sejanus by Livia.

Roman Women: The Women Who Influenced the History of Rome by paul chrystal

#livia drusilla #antonia minor #julia the younger #agrippina the elder #ancient rome

[mxdam]

i'd like to do a fuller revisit of the idea of margarethe as a gothic character! this may be several posts. let's start here:

fairy tales, the female sphere, and female speech

the story of cinderella is a fairy tale in which the wicked stepmother is a narrative force, and not a fully realized character. she exists to provide opposition to the protagonist and be vanquished or overcome in some format, like the evil queen of snow white. "fairy tale" in itself is not a genre that encourages character depth, reflecting its original nature as oral/aural storytelling. insofar as any fairy tale character has real character, or motivation, it is sketched in the most straightforward way, and in the case of all fairy tale antagonists, unsympathetically. but is it possible to have, as they say, sympathy for the devil?

i am not the first person and will certainly not be the last to argue that the position of wicked stepmother in the cinderella fairy tale reflects certain actual patriarchal realities that were a part of women's lives throughout history. in social systems where women were considered, legally, perpetual minors and/or property, were prevented from accumulating wealth or participating in trades or the job market, and could neither inherit nor pass on estates after their death, the stakes were profoundly high when it came to the choice of marriage partners and the actions they took after the loss of a male partner.

the actions of the wicked stepmother become, in that context, understandable. cinderella presents a threat to the social well-being of her own daughters. if she has limited resources (regardless of whether cinderella's father is alive or dead in a given telling of the story, she will always have limited resources as a woman in a patriarchal society), she must exert all of those influences for the promotion and benefit of her own children. insofar as a woman can achieve anything in the world, that achievement is her children; their success, their ennoblement, their social rise. she has no choice, because this is all the power that society and the family will allow her: domestic power, the power of speech, the power of manipulation, the power of familial and domestic cruelty.

in her biography of agrippina minor, roman empress and mother of nero, emma southon quotes tacitus: "influence is rarely lasting, such is its fate." she and tacitus contrast influence with potestas, power, which is meaningful political action. influence is the realm of women; they use it to further the aims of their families, their children, acting from behind the throne and within the domestic sphere. (when nero wanted to sideline his mother, he sent agrippina out of the imperial palace to live in a separate house, and forbade senators and political actors from going there--confining her to a domestic, apolitical sphere, forbidding her from engaging in powerful speech.) maria tatar quotes ursula k. le guin in an interesting parallel in her book on female heroes and fairy tales, the heroine with 1,001 faces, discussing le guin's 1986 speech that describes a Father Tongue, "the voice of power and reason," and a Mother Tongue, "the language of stories, conversation, and relationships." "in this ideological dichotomy, the Mother Tongue is devalued as 'inaccurate, unclear, coarse, limited, trivial, banal."

the intimate connection between womanhood, motherhood, speech, domesticity, powerlessness, and, ultimately, female agency/evil (the same thing under patriarchy) find a conjunction in the figure of the wicked stepmother. in kenneth branagh's rendition of cinderella, on which much of my writing is based, lady tremaine (no first name, by the way--walk-on characters who are present for 15 seconds get first names, but the main antagonist doesn't!) quite literally talks cinderella into self-exile in the attic and self-removal from family togetherness. she never hits her, shoves her, beats her: she simply talks, and her words are enough. the most physical act she takes to confine and harm cinderella is when she locks her into the attic toward the end of the film, at the moment when it seems ella is about to achieve her freedom.

to that end, the cinderella fairy tale viewed from the stepmother's perspective becomes a story about patriarchy. it becomes a story about powerlessness, female dependence, and disenfranchisement under a social system that not only channels women into heterosexual partnership and marriage and requires motherhood of them, but forces them to wield motherhood as power--the only power they will have in a system that demands their exile from the public world of potestas and into the shuttered house. the domestic sphere and its limitations and cruelties, therefore, are hugely significant in the stepmother's story.

what does all of this mean? how does it make the wicked stepmother's story gothic? tune in next time...

#██ meta tag. #yayyy woohoo yay #sorry. alcohol is being dranken.

[wardrobeoftime]

Hi! Can you do all of Antonina and Vipsania’s outfits from Domina season 2?

Once I have watched the season (which I haven't yet), sure.

#Domina (2021) #Domina Sky #Vipsania Agrippina #Antonia Minor #Antonina #requests