Historian Tom Holland uncovers how politics, myth and maternal ambition collided in the scandalous reign of the Roman emperor ...

Poppaea and Nero were not married until after the execution of Agrippina in 59 C.E. In fact, Nero was still married to his first wife Claudia Octavia until 62 C.E. when Poppaea became pregnant ...

Records of Nero's reign portray him as a monster who orchestrated an assassination attempt on his mother. ... Agrippina's yacht is reconstructed at a scale of 1 to 9 in the ship model basin.

In the conventional story of Nero’s reign (54-68AD), one of the most striking details is the murder on his orders of his mother, Agrippina. It was she who manoeuvred him onto the throne when he ...

Unfortunately, in order to cleanse Nero's name, George goes even further than Nero's enemies did in blackening Agrippina's, until she comes across as some ludicrous mix of Cruella de Vil, ...

The opera focuses on succession in imperial Rome: Claudius’s consort, Agrippina, maneuvers to get her lout of a son Nero on the throne, and betrays lovers, friends, and subordinates to get the ...

The opera’s plot explores the machinations of Agrippina, the mother of the future Roman emperor Nero, to secure the position for her son. The Metropolitan Opera’s production features mezzo ...

Sam Frank ’06 plays a stoic and outwardly reserved Nero; David McIntosh ’07 makes a fatherly Seneca (Nero’s tutor) with an ever-present deep baritone to boot. Agrippina, Nero’s mother (Sarah Minkus ...

It's hard to believe that the story--which tells of Agrippina's (DiDonato) effort to install her son, Nerone (Nero, mezzo Kate Lindsey), on the throne of Rome)--predates the absurd political ...