Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore

by Emma Southon

What Octavian, who was a very smart young man, learned from his adoptive father was that when men made their power explicit, other Romans got stabby. What he did instead was continually insist, until the day he died, that the Republic was fine, that he wasn’t in charge, that everyone could do exactly what they wanted. He just happened to have the best ideas and everyone agreed and stop looking at that sword over there.

I say in the area because these were not coins produced in Rome; that would have caused an apoplectic meltdown among the senators which would compare to the sad rage of men who’ve just found out that the Ghostbusters are women now.