Agrippina the Younger

Diana Arterian is the author of the poetry collection Playing Monster :: Seiche and has twice been a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, The Georgia Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. A poetry editor for Noemi Press, Arterian writes "The Annotated Nightstand" column at Lit Hub. She lives in Los Angeles.

• Family Tree Agrippina the Younger The Rhine The Palatine Hill Agrippina Becomes the First Noblewoman to Give Birth on Campaign [Becomes the Elder in an Isolated Place Later Named after the Baby Future Empress Agrippina the Younger] The Palatine Hill Germanicus' Recovering Two of Three Golden Eagle Standards The Tiber Agrippina, Age Three The Via Sacra Agrippina, Age Five The Mausoleum of Augustus The Death of Germanicus and the Early Message of Its Approach The Mausoleum of Augustus The Cremation of Germanicus The Lupercal Cave The House of Livia Agrippina after Her Mother Tells Her Emperor Tiberius Is Giving Her Over to Marriage The Palatine Hippodrome Agrippina, Age Thirteen After Agrippina's Wedding to Domitius [as with Custom What Follows] The House of Livia The Death of Livia, Empress-Mother The Island of Capri The Exile of Agrippina's Mother by the Emperor Tiberius for Four Years [Until She Dies Where Her Mother Died and a Daughter Will] Agrippina's First Pregnancy The Forum Agrippina's Birth of Her Son [the Future Emperor Nero] The Imperial Transition from Tiberius to Caligula My Theory for Caligula's Change If Caligula Had Incestuous Desire [Even Perhaps Action Then from Where for Rare from Nothing] The Funeral of Drusilla [the One Child of Agrippina the Elder and Germanicus to Die without Violence] The Island of Pandateria, Now Ventotene Caligula's Changing Caligula Starts with the Forced Suicide of His Adoptive Son [with Whom He Was Named the Share Power] The Island of Pandateria, Now Ventotene The Assassination of the Emperor Caligula The Cryptoporticus – Palatine Hill Passienus When the Empress Messalina Potentially Decides the Son of Agrippina [and Agrippina Herself a Threat] The Attempted Assassination of Agrippina's Son During Sleep The Vatican Museum Agrippina the Younger's Marriage to Emperor Claudius [a Braiding of Split Imperial Branches] Agrippina the Younger [Once with Power Does What She Has Long Desired] The Material [Marital Benefits for the Empress Agrippina] The Forum The Celtic Chieftain Caratacus Captured [Brought to Rome in Chains Paraded Before the Masses] The Augustan Sanctuary and Residential Complex Future Emperor Nero Assumes the Toga Virilis [His Role as Adult] The Colosseum The Death of the Emperor Claudius at Age Sixty-Three [in Its Multitudinous Truths] The Period of Agrippina Holding Total Power Through Her Emperor Son [Its Briefness] The Island of Capri The First Assassination Attempt on Agrippina by Her Son the Emperor Nero The Second Assassination Attempt on Agrippina by Her Son the Emperor Nero During the Assassination Attempt on Agrippina in Which Her Maid Acerronia Tries to Survive The Assassination of Agrippina The Emperor Nero after the Assassination of His Mother Agrippina The Bay of Baiae The Uprising of the Iceni and Trinovantes Tribes [Others Over 2 , Lead by Tribal Queen Boudica for Her Husband's Naming His Two Daughters (and Nero) as Heirs When She Became a Widow] The Great Fire of Rome Nero's Domus Aurea The Death of the Emperor Nero The Mausoleum of Augustus Elsewhere Addendum - Livilla's Urn Glossary Selected/Quoted Bibliography Acknowledgments

"A moving extended meditation on how we attempt to understand our relationship to the historical past. Arterian offers the reader an echo of the explorations that have come before, the complexities, paradoxes, and inadequacies of 'making do' with the history we have." - Mary-Kim Arnold, author of The Fish The Dove "Diana Arterian was my classmate. With Agrippina the Younger, with both its elegance and courage to embrace the history of our darkness— and with such aesthetic muscularity - I am learning from her still. By stepping toward, instead of running from, the ancient histories of women-hatred, Arterian somehow excavates these legacies with a language and lyricism that holds our horror and beauty in sublime balance. She does not look away . . . " - Robin Coste Lewis, author of To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness "In exquisitely braided prose and verse, Diana Arterian gives us an enthralling study of the often maligned and more often overlooked Agrippina the Younger. Necessarily suspicious and critical of official narratives, Arterian dares to 'pluck the thread' of time-worn accounts passed down to us from patriarchy. In this stunningly lyrical book - rigorously researched and rigorously imagined - we hear history as lies but also lyre: an instrument, in Arterian's hands, attentively tuned and pitch perfect with song." - Brandon Som, author of Tripas: Poems