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Agrippina
(ăgˌrə-pīˈnə, -pēˈ-) Known as “the Elder.” 13 B.C.?-A.D. 33.
Roman matron and mother of Caligula. She was influential in the struggle for power during the reign of Tiberius.
(ăgˌrə-pīˈnə, -pēˈ-) Known as “the Younger.” A.D. 15?-59.
Roman empress. She murdered her husband, the emperor Claudius, so that her son by a previous marriage, Nero, would become emperor. Nero, distrusting his mother, had her murdered.