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Sons and Mothers: Agrippina, Semiramis, and the Philological Construction of Gender Roles in Early Modern Germany (Lohenstein'sAgrippina, 1665)

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Trois ou quatre heures du Regne de Neron ont esté plus funestes à l'Empire Romain que toute la vie d'Agrippine sa Mere. (Three or four hours of Nero's reign were more deadly to the Roman Empire than the entire life of Agrippina, his mother.)Pierre de Moyne,La Galerie des Femmes Fortes(1647,1660)Gentes tamen esse feruntur,/in quibus et nato genetrix et nato parenti/iungitur. (And yet, they say that there are tribes among whom mother and son, daughter with father mates.)Ovid,Metamorphoses, 10: 331-33Act three of Daniel Casper von Lohenstein's 1665 German language play about Nero's assassination of his mother and erst-while co-regent Agrippina in A.D. 59 contains what could arguably be deemed one of the most salacious scenes produced on the early modern stage in central Europe.
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Title: Sons and Mothers: Agrippina, Semiramis, and the Philological Construction of Gender Roles in Early Modern Germany (Lohenstein'sAgrippina, 1665)
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Trois ou quatre heures du Regne de Neron ont esté plus funestes à l'Empire Romain que toute la vie d'Agrippine sa Mere.
(Three or four hours of Nero's reign were more deadly to the Roman Empire than the entire life of Agrippina, his mother.
)Pierre de Moyne,La Galerie des Femmes Fortes(1647,1660)Gentes tamen esse feruntur,/in quibus et nato genetrix et nato parenti/iungitur.
(And yet, they say that there are tribes among whom mother and son, daughter with father mates.
)Ovid,Metamorphoses, 10: 331-33Act three of Daniel Casper von Lohenstein's 1665 German language play about Nero's assassination of his mother and erst-while co-regent Agrippina in A.
D.
59 contains what could arguably be deemed one of the most salacious scenes produced on the early modern stage in central Europe.

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