Agrippina's Response

📕 Tacitus Annals 14.6 ⏱️ 60 min 📊 A-Level

🎯 Learning Intention

Understand how Tacitus presents Agrippina's analytical intelligence and strategic performance as she pieces together evidence of assassination whilst staging a calculated survival response.

Success Criteria

  • I can analyse how Tacitus structures Agrippina's forensic reasoning through accumulated evidence
  • I can explain how the phrase "terrestre machinamentum" reveals her technical understanding
  • I can evaluate Agrippina's strategic use of dissimulatio through performance vs. reality
  • I can identify how thanking Nero's "good fortune" functions as psychological warfare
  • I can assess the significance of sealing Acerronia's estate as the only genuine action

Getting Started

Begin by reviewing the learning intentions, then move to the Read section to explore the Latin text