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Agrippina the younger was the first empress of the Roman Empire, which almost no modern sources remembered her as such; Agrippina was not often remembered at all, unlike Augustus and his wife Livia. Agrippina’s the younger played an important notable role in the Julio-Claudian family performance. Which had influenced her as its origin the only resource available to women of her time, and especially the male power. Agrippina was before Livia and the wife of one emperor and the mother of another. She was also the sister of a third and the daughter of a prince of the royal houses, which the shadows fell across ruling beliefs long after the price death. Agrippina the younger ancestry on both sides of her family thus joined on Augustus, but as on

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