So here, in this book, that’s what we’re going to say. Other books can and will say other things and I won’t pretend this is any kind of iron-clad argument because it is absolutely speculation. But I think Agrippina and Nero reached an agreement after the crisis with Silana and Lepida and I think that agreement was that she was to back the hell off from the limelight and, in public, accept her proper place as a woman and as the mother of the emperor and stop telling him what to do. In return he wouldn’t worry too hard about what she was doing chatting to senators in the Forum.
