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1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 5 min.) ; 341388728 bytes |
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Professor Catherine Edwards travels across what was the heart of the Roman empire lifting the lid on the women behind some of the most fearsome emperors of all time. These women were PR weapons and fashion role models, patrons and matchmakers, politicians and plotters. Everything from murderers to murder victims, and from pagan goddesses to Christian saints. We see that women could pull the strings of power too, but only at great personal risk.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. (Part 2 of 3) (From the UK) (Documentary Series) PG CCFollow the conversation on twitter: #SBSDoco |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2016-01-03 at 19:35:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Agrippina, Minor, 15-59.
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Empresses -- Biography.
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Romans -- Social life and customs.
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Sisters -- Psychology.
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Women -- Political aspects.
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Messalina, Valeria, -48.
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Italy -- Rome.
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Streaming video
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Gerner, Elliott, director
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Edwards, Catharine, host
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