The Ancient-World Stark Family, Part 4: The Show Notes

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First, we have to share this incredible painting of the collapsible boat that Nero had built to assassinate Agrippina.

It didn’t work because Agrippina was a badass who could SWIM!

And here are Agrippina and Nero awkwardly facing each other on a coin.

And here is Nero looking over the dead body of his mum . . . like a creep!

And finally, here is a statue of Agrippina in Cologne, the city that was once Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensis and then Colonia Agrippina and finally, Cologne.

And here are the sources that made this episode possible:

Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler Whore – Emma Southon

The First Ladies of Rome – Annelise Friesenbruch

Dynasty : The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar– Tom Holland

http://hekint.org/2017/01/30/claudius-the-caesar-never-meant-to-be-emperor/

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Nero*.html

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Claudius*.html

http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/annals.7.xi.html

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/60*.html

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Claudius*.html

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/Annals/11b*.html#26

https://strangeremains.com/2016/12/28/the-roman-empress-who-used-forensic-science-to-identify-her-rivals-head/

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Nero*.html