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‘Guess Who's coming to Dinner’: The Murder of Nero's Mother Agrippina in its Topographical Setting*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2011

LAWRENCE KEPPIE
LAWRENCE KEPPIE
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l.keppie@museum.gla.ac.uk
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One of the most abhorrent events of Nero's reign, as viewed at the time and by commentators thereafter, was the premeditated murder of the emperor's mother Agrippina in March AD 59, which some have felt marked the end of the ‘five good years’ of Nero's reign, the quinquennium Neronis. The murder took place, not in Rome as many others that disfigured the Julio-Claudian dynasty, but on the Bay of Naples, more particularly on the Gulf of Pozzuoli at or near the resort of Baiae, modern Baia.

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Research Article
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Greece & Rome , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , April 2011 , pp. 33 - 47
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Copyright © The Classical Association 2011

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* A draft text was read, with much care and valuable comment, by Dr Miriam Griffin, Prof. Denis Saddington, Prof. Alastair Small, and, latterly, by Prof. Michael H. Crawford. Dottoressa Francesca Morandini kindly sent information on the fragmentary glass flask recently found at Brescia.