I need to know where this Agrippina quote came from!!! (1 Viewer)

[Dazzaa]

I know that I have read somewhere a quote very similar to this "If Agrippina had been born a man, she would certainly have been emperor"

I really want to use it in my essay, but I have forgotten where I got it from. Anything close to this quote would help immensely!!!
Cheers

 

[Elliot III]

I found a few quotes concerning her gender but not that quote exactly:
"She proposed coming as close as it was possible for a woman to come to a partnership in power" - Bauman

"To be effective in plotics, a woman needed a husband, brother, or son to act for her." - Levick

"Agrippina was born to power and also to its shadow"- Leadbetter

"Her career is a profound demonstration of both the means available to an ambitious woman of imperial birth to promote that ambition, and also the limits placed upon it by a masculine society"- Leadbetter

Hope that helps!

 

[shelley]

i seem to remeber it came from tactius.or maybe barrett..have u by chance read either of those?

 

[xeuyrawp]

Was not Tacitus, and probably not an ancient source. Other than that, no idea where it's from.

 

[ms.cinderella]

try typing the quote in a search engine and see what comes up

 

[tom_sampson]

It was Barret, we were studying his sources in class yesterday, and went over that quote. So yeh, twas Barret.

 

[Caratacus]

"Clearly the Roman imperial system was unfair to a woman like Agrippina, whose talents and energies were such that she would have achieved high office, quite likely the principate itself, if she had been a man."

A. A. Barrett "Agrippina Mother of Nero" 1996