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Definition of Agrippina the elder
1. Noun. Granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula and Agrippina the Younger (14 BC - AD 33).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agrippina The Elder
Literary usage of Agrippina the elder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"AGRIPPINA, the " younger " (AD 16-59), daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the
elder, sister of Caligula and mother of Nero, was born at Oppidum ..."
2. The Numismatic Circularby Spink & Son by Spink & Son (1908)
"... Q. Labienus, Fulvia, C. Antonius, Livia, C. C;vsar, Drusus, Nero Drusus,
Antonia, Germanicus, agrippina the elder, Clodius Macer, Domitilla, Marciana, ..."
3. Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1899)
"The pedestal of agrippina the elder, daughter of Agrippa, wife of Germanicus,
and mother of Caligula, and that of her eldest son Nero, were hollowed out ..."
4. Compendious Description of the Museums of Ancient Sculpture, Greek and Roman by H. J. Massi, Ercole G. Massi (1897)
"Head supposed to represent Agrippina the Elder. — Female head unknown. 622-623.
... Agrippina the Elder. 625-626. Lower shelf: Antinous as Atys, or Paris. ..."
5. Walks in Rome by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1882)
"Agrippina the younger, sixth wife of Claudius, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina
the elder, great-granddaughter of Augustus. Murdered by her son Nero, ..."
6. Catalogue of Casts by Edward Robinson, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1896)
"... several extant statues, examples of which are given in the two pictures on
the pedestal. One is a photograph of the well-known " agrippina the elder," ..."
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