Agrippina Quotes

“In the historical record, the year 38CE started very badly with a bizarre act of public suicide. A slave called Machaon walked into the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline – one of the biggest and most sacred spaces in the city – carrying a puppy and a knife. Skip this next sentence if you are particularly squeamish. He climbed up onto the altar, screamed terrible predictions for the coming year at everyone watching and then killed the puppy followed by himself. I can only assume that he did this in an attempt to get himself in the history books, which was very successful as here I am in 2017 in my office thinking about him because he killed a puppy 1,979 years ago.”
― Emma Southon, Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore