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Agrippina the Elder
Agrippina the Elder , d. AD 33, Roman matron; daughter of Agrippa and Julia and granddaughter of Augustus. She was the wife of Germanicus Caesar and accompanied him on his provincial duties. After her husband's death (AD 19), she accused Tiberius of having Germanicus poisoned, and thereafter she... Read more
Sejanus
Sejanus (Lucius Aelius Sejanus) , d. AD 31, Roman statesman; son of Sejus Strabo, Praetorian prefect. When his father went to Egypt as governor, he succeeded to the command of the Praetorian Guards and obtained great ascendancy over Emperor Tiberius . He was suspected of conspiring (AD 23) with L... Read more
Nero
Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar) , AD 37-AD 68, Roman emperor (AD 54-AD 68). He was originally named Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and was the son of Cnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul in AD 32) and of Agrippina the Younger , who was the great-granddaughter of Augustus. Agrippina married (AD 49) Claud... Read more
Caligula
Caligula , AD 12-AD 41, Roman emperor (AD 37-AD 41); son of Germanicus Caesar and Agrippina the Elder . His real name was Caius Caesar Germanicus. As a small child, he wore military boots, whence his nickname [ caligula =little boot]. On the death of Tiberius the army helped make Caligula emper... Read more
Kirov Ballet
Kirov Ballet one of the two major ballet companies of Russia, the other being the Bolshoi Ballet . In 1991 it was officially renamed the St. Petersburg Maryinsky Ballet; however, on its frequent tours abroad it is still called the Kirov Ballet. Often regarded as the foremost European ballet compan... Read more
Seneca
Seneca the younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) loo´shes enē´es sĕn´eke , c.3 BC-AD 65, Roman philosopher, dramatist, and statesman, b. Corduba (present-day Córdoba), Spain. He was the son of Seneca the elder. The younger Seneca went to Rome in his childhood, studi... Read more
Claudius I
Claudius I (Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus) , 10 BC-AD 54, Roman emperor (AD 41-AD 54), son of Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus and thus nephew of Tiberius . When Caligula was murdered (AD 41), the soldiers found Claudius, who had been of little importance, hiding in abject terror behi... Read more
Tiberius
Tiberius (Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus) , 42 BC-AD 37, second Roman emperor (AD 14-AD 37). He was the son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla and was originally named Tiberius Claudius Nero. He campaigned (20 BC) in Armenia, became (19 BC) governor of Transalpine Gaul, and aided (12 ... Read more
Cologne
Cologne , Ger. Köln, city (1994 pop. 962,500), North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, on the Rhine River. It is a commercial, financial, and industrial center, a rail and road junction, and a river port. Its manufactures include automobile engines, engineering, electronics engineering, metals, ch... Read more
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel , 1685-1759, English composer, b. Halle, Germany. Handel was one of the greatest masters of baroque music, most widely celebrated for his majestic oratorio Messiah. Of German descent, he was originally named Georg Friedrich Handel. Son of a barber-surgeon, he early disp... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Agrippina"

Agrippina the Younger
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Agrippina the Younger Niece and fourth wife of Emperor Claudius, Agrippina the Younger (15-59 AD) was suspected of having...hoped to dominate Rome. On her mother's side, Agrippina was the great-granddaughter of Augustus, who...
Vaganova, Agrippina
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Agrippina Vaganova Agrippina Vaganova (1879-1951) was a noted Russian ballet dancer, choreographer...instruction. Born June 26, 1879, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova was the daughter of an usher at the Mariinsky...
Agrippina the Elder
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Agrippina the Elder , d. AD 33, Roman matron; daughter of Agrippa and Julia and granddaughter of Augustus. She was the wife of Germanicus...
Nero Claudius Caesar
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Tiberius, Nero was the son of Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina. Agrippina was the daughter of Germanicus and therefore the...Claudius died in 54 (some say he was poisoned by Agrippina), the 17-year-old Nero appeared before the...
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the court as a member of the party of Agrippina and Julia Livilla, Claudius's nieces...in 49 he was recalled at the behest of Agrippina, who had survived Messalina and married...Life under Nero Claudius was murdered by Agrippina in 54, and Nero acceded to the throne...
Nero
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Ahenobarbus (consul in AD 32) and of Agrippina the Younger , who was the great-granddaughter of Augustus. Agrippina married (AD 49) Claudius I and persuaded him to adopt Nero. In AD 55, Agrippina saw the bonds of her domination of Nero...
Tiberius Claudius Germanicus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Messalina to commit suicide. The Emperor's next wife was Agrippina, his niece and the mother of his successor, Nero. A woman...including Tacitus, say that he may have been poisoned by Agrippina. Claudius died in Rome on Oct. 13, 54. Further Reading...
Benjamin West
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Drummond, Archbishop of York, commissioned West to paint Agrippina with the Ashes of Germanicus (1767), a story, of faithfulness...featuring idealized forms and gravity of demeanor, as in the Agrippina. Christ Healing the Sick, showing milder sentiments and...
Biochemical Assassination Weapons
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...classical Rome, mushroom poisons were expertly administered by Agrippina (a.d.16 – a.d. 59.), wife of Emperor...was to succeed Claudius, and eventually Claudius himself. Agrippina probably employed the properties of the amanita species...
Seneca
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Germanicus' daughter. In AD 49 he was recalled at the urgings of Agrippina the Younger to become tutor of the young Nero . In the first...Poppaea, Nero's wife, brought about first the death of Agrippina (AD 59), then that of Burrus (AD 62). Seneca asked to...

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Agrippina
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Agrippina. Opera in 3 acts by Handel to lib. by Grimani. Prod. Venice 1709, Abingdon 1963, Philadelphia 1972 (concert), Fort Worth 1985 (stage).
Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...known of his mother. Agrippa ’ s surname and epithet indicate both his birthplace (Cologne was formerly Colonia Agrippina) and the origin of his family (Nettesheim, a village near Cologne); his given names suggest a Dutch or Flemish influence...
Swanson, Gloria
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Three for Bedroom C (Bren) (as Ann Haven) 1956 Mio figlio Nerone (Nero's Mistress ; Nero's Weekend ) (Steno) (as Agrippina) 1960 When Comedy Was King (Youngson—compilation) (as herself) 1972 Chaplinesque, My Life and Hard Times...
West, Benjamin
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...with the circle of Gavin Hamilton and Mengs , and his early work is in a determined but rather flimsy Neoclassical style ( Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus , 1768, Yale Univ. AG). With his famous Death of Wolfe (1770, NG...
Nero
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...of the arts extended to appearing himself upon the stage. Infamous for his cruelty, he ordered the murder of his mother Agrippina in 59 and wantonly executed leading Romans. His reign witnessed a fire which destroyed half of Rome in 64; in Suetonius...
Handel, George Frideric
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...He was acclaimed as a genius, the rival of his It. contemporaries. His opera Rodrigo was perf. in Florence in 1707 and Agrippina in Venice in 1709. The following year he was appointed court cond. in Hanover and was also invited to write an opera ( Rinaldo...
Claudius
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...expansion of the Roman Empire, in particular the invasion of Britain in the year 43, in which he personally took part. His fourth wife, Agrippina (15–59 AD), is said to have killed him with a dish of poisoned mushrooms.
Nero, Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...x2013;68 AD) Roman emperor (54–68 AD). He was adopted by CLAUDIUS , who had married his own niece, Agrippina, Nero's mother. On Claudius' suspicious death in 54 AD Nero succeeded to the throne and poisoned Britannicus, Claudius...
Seneca, Marcus Annaeus
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...49 his sentence was repealed and he became tutor to Nero, through the influence of Nero's mother and Claudius' wife, Agrippina. Seneca was a dominant figure in the early years of Nero's reign and was appointed consul in 57; he retired in 62. His...

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Handel with care ; 'Agrippina' by Handel opens tomorrow night in London. Tom Rosenthal found it a masterpiece on its first appearance and meets its producer, David McVicar, to discuss sex and power on stage
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 2/4/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...McVicar's production of Handel's Agrippina which opens tomorrow at the Coliseum...the cast will include Sarah Connolly as Agrippina, Lisa Crowe as Poppaea and Christine...theatrical experience. Handel wrote Agrippina as the second, and last, opera of his...
"AGRIPPINA' IS GOOD FOR LAUGHS; FUNNY THINGS HAPPEN ON WAY TO CONCLUSION OF GLIMMERGLASS SHOW.(CNY)(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 7/26/2001; 700+ words ; ...Opera's new production of Handel's "Agrippina" may have you rethinking the transgressions...shrewd sense of humor to good use in "Agrippina," mixing fact and fiction freely in...Tacitus and Suetonius and centers around Agrippina - the ruthless and manipulative wife...
Sons and mothers: Agrippina, Semiramis, and the philological construction of gender roles in early modern Germany (Lohenstein's 'Agrippina,' 1665)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Roman Empire than the entire life of Agrippina, his mother.) Pierre de Moyne, La...his mother and erstwhile co-regent Agrippina in A.D. 59 contains what could arguably...the more outrageous. Lohenstein's Agrippina belonged to the genre of early modern...
COT's gravely comic 'Agrippina' an ebullient delight
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/2/2003; ; 700+ words ; 'AGRIPPINA' highly recommended When: 7:30 tonight...sophisticated, mordantly comic production of "Agrippina." There was much to cheer and stamp one's feet about in this new "Agrippina" as COT's ecstatic opening night audience...
HANDEL'S 'AGRIPPINA,' GETS CAMP PRODUCTION
News Wire article from: United Press International; 4/24/2002; 700+ words ; 00-00-0000 Handel's 'Agrippina,' gets camp production NEW YORK...production of George Frideric Handel's Agrippina so delightfully campy that it could...Lillian Groag has taken a fresh look at Agrippina, first performed in Venice in 1709...
Modern-day 'Agrippina' with a bit of zing.(ARTS & CULTURE)(OPERA)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 2/3/2007; 700+ words ; ...of George Frideric Handel's youthful Agrippina is everything comic opera should be...whole lot more. First staged in 1709, Agrippina was the young German composer's first...satire on the venality of government, Agrippina was and is a broadly comic retelling...
Agrippina, "the truest woman that ever wed" (1).(Notes)(Herman Melville's long poem, Naples in the Time of Bomba)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Leviathan; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...of his fellow artists. In the case of Agrippina, however, the reference to the Bourbon...pale mute-speaking stone Of seated Agrippina--she The truest woman that ever wed...archival photographs of the so-called "Agrippina seduta" (inventory number 6029...
Handel in high heels ; CLASSICAL ++ Agrippina The Coliseum LONDON ++ Halle Orchestra / Mark Elder Symphony Hall MANCHESTER
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 2/11/2007; ; 700+ words ; David McVicar's production of Agrippina, first seen at La Monnaie in Brussels...s evening dress, Sarah Connolly's Agrippina sports a shameless succession of killer...little left. Take the coke-jokes out of Agrippina, and it would be more powerful. As...
SEMI-STAGED `AGRIPPINA' GETS FULL MARKS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/25/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...semi-staged account of Handel's "Agrippina" Saturday night was not just the best...operatic performance in several seasons. "Agrippina," written by the 24-year-old future...the story is about how the villainous Agrippina, the mother of Nero, schemes to install...
THEATER REVIEW; Inspired cast delivers a telling 'Agrippina'
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 10/24/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Frideric Handel's three-act opera "Agrippina," given an exhilarating semistaged...during the 1709-1710 carnival season, "Agrippina" was a smash hit for the 24-year...intrigue in Rome in the first century. Agrippina, wife of the Emperor Claudius, schemes...