Vipsania AgrippinaArticle Free Pass Vipsania Agrippina, also
called Agrippina the Elder (born c. 14 bc—died Oct. 18, ad 33,
the island of Pandateria [modern Ventotene Island, Italy], in
the Tyrrhenian Sea), daughter of Marcus Agrippa and Julia (who
was the daughter of the emperor Augustus), and a major figure in
the succession struggles in the latter part of the reign of
Tiberius (ruled ad 14–37). Agrippina was married to Germanicus
Caesar (great-nephew of Augustus by adoption and nephew and
adopted son of Tiberius). She accompanied her husband to Germany
and to the East, where he died at Antioch in 19. On her return
she accused Tiberius of having had Germanicus murdered, and
relations between them remained tense. Sejanus, Tiberius’s chief
minister, encouraged the emperor’s suspicion of her for his own
purposes, especially when the death of Tiberius’s son Drusus in
23 brought her sons into direct line for the succession. In 29
Agrippina was exiled, and in 30 her son Drusus was imprisoned.
In 33, two years aft