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1 Season
3 Episode
Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome - Season 1 Episode 2 The Rivals
Professor Catharine Edwards explores the dramatic lives of two women at the heart of power in 1st-century imperial Rome. One is Messalina, whose scandalous reputation lives on 2,000 years after her bloody and dramatic death. The other is Agrippina - sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius and mother of Nero - an extraordinary woman who was not only a skilled and ambitious politician but also a murderer and ultimately a murder victim.
- Year: 2013
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: BBC Four
- Keyword: history
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- Cast: Catharine Edwards