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Agrippina the Younger : Poems / Diana Arterian.

PS3601.R7623 A57 2025

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Arterian, Diana, author.
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Agrippina, Minor, 15-59.; Agrippina.; American poetry--21st century.; American poetry.
Genre:: Biographical poetry.
Physical Description:: 124 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:: Evanston, Illinois : Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press, [2025]
Summary:: "Agrippina the Younger follows one woman's study of another, separated by thousands of miles and two millennia but bound by a shared sense of powerlessness. Agrippina was a daughter in a golden political family, destined for greatness--but she hungered for more power than women were allowed. Exhausted by the misogyny of the present, Diana Arterian reaches into the past to try to understand the patriarchal systems of today. In lyric verse and prose poems, she traces Agrippina's rise, interrogating a life studded with intrigue, sex, murder, and manipulation. Arterian eagerly pursues Agrippina through texts, ruins, and films, exhuming the hidden details of the ancient noblewoman's life. These poems consider the valences of patriarchy, power, and the archive to try to answer the question: How do we recover a woman erased by history?" -- p. 4 of cover.
Contents:: Family tree; Agrippina the Younger; The Rhine; The Palatine Hill; Agrippina becomes the first noblewoman to give birth on campaign...; Germanicus's recovering two of three golden eagle standards; The Tiber; Agrippina, age three; The Via Sacra; Agrippina, age five; The mausoleum of Augustus; The death of Germanicus and the early message of its approach; The cremation of Germanicus; The Lupercal; The house of Livia; Agrippina after her mother tells her Emperor Tiberius is giving her over to marriage; The Palatine Hippodrome; Agrippina, age thirteen; After Agrippina's wedding to Domitius...; The death of Livia, empress-mother; The island of Capri; The exile of Agrippina's mother by Emperor Tiberius for four years...; Agrippina's first pregnancy; The Forum; The birth of Agrippina's son, / future Emperor Nero; The imperial transition from Tiberius to Caligula; My theory for Caligula's change; If Caligula had incestuous desire; The funeral of Drusilla; The island of Pandateria, now Ventotene; Caligula's changing; Caligula starts with the forced suicide of his adopted son...; The island of Pandateria, now Ventotene...; The assassination of Emperor Caligula; The cryptoporticus-Palatine Hill; Passienus; When Empress Messalina potentially decides the son of Agrippina...; The attempted assassination of Agrippina's son during sleep; The Vatican Museum; Agrippina the Younger's marriage to Emperor Claudius...; Agrippina the Younger / once with power...; The material / marital / benefits / for Empress Agrippina; The Celtic chieftan Caratacus captured...; The Augustan sanctuary and residential complex; Future Emperor Nero assumes the toga virilis; The Colosseum; The death of Emperor Claudius at age sixty-three...; The brief period of Agrippina holding total power through her emperor-son; The first assassination attempt on Agrippina by her son, Emperor Nero; The second assassination attempt on Agrippina by her son, Emperor Nero; During the assassination attempt on Agrippina in which her maid, Acerronia, tries to survive; The assassination of Agrippina; Emperor Nero after the assassination of his mother, Agrippina; The Bay of Baiae; The uprising of over 200,000 tribespeople...; The great fire of Rome; Nero's Domus Aurea; The death of Emperor Nero; Elsewhere; Addendum-Livilla's urn.
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:: 9780810148413; 0810148412
OCLC:: 1530641553

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