Agrippina the Younger: Quotes

Question 1

QUOTE: Overview of Roman social and political structures; principate

Answer 1

“I transferred the state from my own power to the control of the Roman state and people.” AUGUSTUS- RES GESTAE

Question 2

QUOTE: Role of imperial women in Roman society

Answer 2

“Betrothals were broken or divorces were dictated when alliances between men became animosities” POMEROY

Question 3

QUOTE: Role of women according to Tacitus

Answer 3

“To mind the house and watch over the children.” TACITUS

Question 4

QUOTE: Family background and status (LINEAGE)

Answer 4

“Agrippina’s exceptionally illustrious birth is indisputable.” TACITUS, ANNALS

“Her pedigree was impeccable.” S. PEROWNE

Question 5

QUOTE: Family background and status (MAKE MOST OF DESCENT)

Answer 5

“Agrippina, great-granddaughter of the revered Augustus, would make much of her Julian descent, a descent that came through the bloodline and was not conferred merely through adoption.” BARRETT

Question 6

QUOTE: Germanicus

Answer 6

“True, renaissance man.” SUETONIUS

Question 7

QUOTE: Early life, ambitions and marriages (GERMANICUS TRIUMPH)

Answer 7

“The triumph of Germanicus…was a memory that his daughter would exploit to the full.” BARRETT

Question 8

QUOTE: Early life, ambitions and marriages

GERMANICUS SAID TO AGRIPPINA THE ELDER

Answer 8

Publicly said: Forget her pride, submit to cruel fortune, and back in Rome, to avoid provoking those stronger than herself by competing for power.” TACITUS

Privately said: Privately he said more- warning her of danger (so it was said) from Tiberius.” TACITUS

Question 9

QUOTE: Early life, ambitions and marriages (PARTY OF AGRIPPINA)

Answer 9

“it was the first specific political movement to be formed by a woman.” BAUMANN

Question 10

QUOTE: Early life, ambitions and marriages (ATE EXILE)

Answer 10

“Mother and son were left to starve in their separate places of imprisonment…she must have been the single most important influence on her daughter and namesake.” M.T.GRIFFIN

Question 11

QUOTE: MARRIAGE 1

Answer 11

“Agrippina the Younger was given to L. Domitius Ahenobarbus…it is interesting to note that they thought it best not to have children while Tiberius was still alive.” T.WEIDEMANN

Question 12

QUOTE: MARRIAGE 2

Answer 12

“Agrippina, remembering the weakness of her mother’s position after the death of Germanicus, set out to find a husband.”

Question 13

QUOTE: MARRIAGE 3

Answer 13

“For she was beautiful and was in the habit of consulting him constantly…and in fact she was rather more familiar in her conduct towards him than became a niece.” CASSIUS DIO

Question 14

QUOTE: Basis of her power and influence; patronage

Answer 14

“She was no paragon of female virtue…she was prepared if necessary to wade through slaughter to a throne.” SALMON

Question 15

QUOTE: Role during the reign of Gaius (Caligula), including exile (BROTHER’S AFFECTION)

Answer 15

“Without a compatible wife, it might be expected that Caligula would have looked for affection from his three sisters.” BARRETT

Question 16

QUOTE: Role during the reign of Gaius (Caligula), including exile (CONSPIRACY)

Answer 16

“Agrippina and Lepidus had formed a conspiracy to replace him” LEADBETTER

Question 17

QUOTE: Role during the reign of Gaius (Caligula), including exile (MESSALINA)

Answer 17

“Then he (Claudius) married Valeria Messalina…But it turned out that she was not only guilty of other disgraceful crimes, but had gone so far as to commit bigamy with Gaius Silius, and even sign a formal marriage contract before witnesses; so Claudius executed her.” SUETONIUS

Question 18

QUOTE: Role during the reign of Gaius (Caligula), including exile (ADVANTAGE OF MESSALINA DOWNFALL)

Answer 18

“Visiting her uncle frequently-ostensibly as a close relation- she tempted him into giving her the preference and into treating her, in anticipation, as his wife.” TACITUS

Question 19

QUOTE: Role during the reign of Claudius (PURSUE OBJECTIVES)

Answer 19

“Agrippina used her influence over Claudius not only to consolidate Nero’s claims, but also to enhance her own position.” BAUMAN

Question 20

QUOTE: Role during the reign of Claudius (DEATH OF CLAUDIUS)

Answer 20

“While pretending to help Claudius vomit, he put a feather dipped in a quick poison down his throat.” TACITUS