SEPULCHRE OF AGRIPPINA

Tacitus tells that Nero, after he’d had his mother killed, had her remains burned so that she would never have a tomb; successively, her servants in sign of affection, dedicated a tomb to her memory that was on the road to Miseno. Based on this, the tradition has identified the “tomb of Agrippina” in the ruins that are on the beach at Bacoli; those ruins though, are instead a theatre-nymphaeum, part of a seaside villa that is now almost completely lost.


Sepulchre of Agrippina – F. Morghen – XV111 century


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