Hmmm... not sure what book you are referring to, and is it really Tiberius Gracchus and not the emperor Tiberius that you read about? (And thank you, MaryE below, to make me explain myself clearer - sorry if I sounded snappish when I replied to you, you were absolutely right that I was confused, although it was the Tiberii that confused me and not the Agrippinae). Anyhow, if it is T. Gracchus, I.m afraid I dont know the story, but if it is the Emperor Tiberius, then this is what happened in real life to Agrippina the Elder according to Wikipedia:
"The climate was further poisoned by the "inveterate hatred" that Tiberius' mother felt for her (Tacitus, Annals 4.12), since Agrippina's ambition, to be the mother of emperors and thus Rome's first woman, was an open secret. In 26, the emperor rejected her request that she be allowed to marry again.
Agrippina and her sons Drusus and Nero Caesar were arrested in 29 on the orders of Tiberius. They were tried by the Senate and Agrippina was banished to the island of Pandataria (now called Ventotene) in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Campania where her mother had once been banished. There she was treated with great brutality, losing an eye from the blow of a centurion and later undergoing forcible feeding (Suetonius, Tib.53). She died on October 18, 33 in suspicious circumstances. Her death, according to Suetonius the result of voluntary starvation (ibid), was probably hastened by her realisation that the fall of Sejanus had "led to no abatement of horrors" (Tacitus, Annals 6.25). Tacitus also mentions malnutrition as a likely cause. After her death Tiberius accused her of "having had Asinius Gallus as a paramour and being driven by his death to loathe existence" (Annals 6.25). At Tiberius' prompting the Senate decreed that her birthday should be marked as a day of ill omen (Suet.ibid.).
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2006-12-11 02:02:50
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answered by AskAsk 5
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It would help immensely if you gave the title of the book. The answer from AskAsk above is incorrect. She has her Agrippinas confused. However, Agrippina was a common ladies' name in ancient Rome, so it's an understandable mistake.
Tiberius Gracchus lived in the Second Century BC (circa 163 BC -133 BC) during the Republic. The Agrippina AskAsk refers to lived in the First Century AD (November 6, 15 – March 59), during the days of the Emperors. Several hundred years apart.
2006-12-11 04:00:01
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answered by Anonymous
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