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Germanicus, Agrippina the Elder, Agrippina the younger and Claudius Nero’s Women
The Great Cameo of France – Tiberius surrounded by relatives including his mother Livia and the two Agrippinas 3 4
Julia the Elder Octavia on the Portland Vase Clytie modelled on Antonia Minor Livia
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Agrippina the Younger, Farnese Collection Naples Livilla, Berlin Drusilla, Munich
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Agrippina with the Ashes of Germanicus by Benjamin West
Coin and Cameo of Agrippina the Elder
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Agrippina’s first husband Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus Domitia Lepida Major from a Renaissance Who’s Who Coin of Caligula with his three sisters
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The Pontine Islands – Pandateria is now called Ventotene
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Bust thought to be Messalina Seneca, Berlin Julia Livia Snake bracelet C1st AD Pompeii
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Death of Messalina with Domitia Lepida Minor by Francesco Solimena c 1710 The Young Nero Messalina and Britannicus, Louvre
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Death of Messalina with Domitia Lepida Minor by Nicolai Abildgaard c 1795 Death of Messalina with Domitia Lepida Minor by François Victor Eloi Biennourry 1850
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Death of Messalina with Domitia Lepida Minor by Noel Saunier 1870 Death of Messalina with Domitia Lepida Minor by Gustav Moreau 1874 and Fernand Lematte 1870
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Death of Messalina with Domitia Lepida Minor by Georges Antoine Rochegrosse 1916 Agrippina the Younger c 38 or 40
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Coin of Claudius and Agrippina
Claudia Octavia as a girl
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Statues of Agrippina
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Woodcut of 1474 of Agrippina killing Claudius
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Coins of Agrippina
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Aureus 54
Denarius 50-54
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Aureus 55 Aureus 55-6
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Nero Ordering the Murder of his Mother by Noel Coypel c 1775, Grenoble
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The self-collapsing boat by Gustav Wertheimer Nero with his Mother’s body by Antonio Rizzi
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Mediaeval Manuscript showing Nero pausing Nero before the body of his mother by Arturo Calvo 1887, Madrid before mutilating his mother’s body
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The Remorse of Nero by John William Waterhouse Claudia Octavia
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Poppaea Brings the Head of Octavia to Nero by Giovanni Muzzioli 1876, Modena Coin of Claudia Octavia
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Poppaea Fontainebleau School c 1570
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Nero’s Funerary inscription commemorating his wetnurse Claudia Ecloge who with Claudia Acte arranged his funeral and the depositing of his ashes in the mausoleum of the Domitii
Statilia Messalina
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