Agrippina the Younger ranks as one of the most powerful women in the history of the Roman empire. Judith Ginsburg's book provides a fresh look at both the literary and material representations of Agrippina. Her incisive study exposes both the contrivances of the commissioned artists whose idealized portraits served to buttress the image of the regime and the contrasting designs of the historians whose rhetorical stereotypes and negative depictions aimed to undermine it.
| ISBN: | 9780195181418 |
| Publication date: | 5th January 2006 |
| Author: | Judith Associate Professor of Classics, Associate Professor of Classics, Cornell University Ginsburg |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies |
| Genres: |
Ancient history European history Biography: historical, political and military |