by Pierre Grimal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498152302
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«Memorias de Agripina» is the historical novel by Pierre Grimal, published by El País in paperback (335 pages, in Spanish).
Agrippina, great-granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Nero, begins writing her memoirs when she feels the augury that destined her to be the mother of an emperor is about to be fulfilled. In his first novel, Pierre Grimal recreates the intrigues of imperial Rome between Tiberius and Nero, drawing on Tacitus, Suetonius and Seneca to portray the ambition and cruelty of a woman determined to crown her son.
2005 edition. The original title is «Mémoires d'Agrippine». The El País edition is number 26 of the Novela Histórica collection.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the political intrigues of imperial Rome and the figure of Agrippina.
Pierre Grimal was a French historian, classicist and Latinist. Interested in the Greek and Roman civilizations, he did much to promote the cultural inheritance of the classical world, both among specialists and the general public.
