Agrippina the elder, grand-daughter of Augustus
had defied the tyrannical rule of Tiberius
. She was admired at this period as much as her namesake and daughter, Nero's mother, was abhorred. For Hamilton her story...
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Anne Wharton
Love's Martyr deals with the supposed unhappy love-affair between the Roman poet Ovid
and Julia
, the daughter of Augustus Caesar
, who of course plans to marry her to someone more patrician and military...
