Agrippina, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero, was a beautiful and talented woman who saw her father murdered, was banished by her brother, and was killed on the orders of her son. Her freed man, a one-eyed former gladiator named Parmenon, tells of Agrippina's battle to survive in and control the depraved and violent Imperial Roman court, and the crumbling relationship between mother and son.
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Parmenon, a one-eyed former gladiator, tells the story of the beautiful Agrippina, the wife of Claudius and mother of Nero, and of her battle to survive in and control the depraved and violent imperial Roman court.
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A dramatic historical novel about the turbulent life and death of Agrippina, Empress of Rome, from the author hailed as the true heir to Ellis Peters
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- PublisherHeadline
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0747272921
- ISBN 13 9780747272922
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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