<p>They said she was a tyrant, a murderer and the most wicked woman in history.</p><p>She kicked her way into the male spaces of politics and demanded to be recognised as an equal and a leader. For her audacity, she was murdered by her son and reviled by history. </p><p>She was the sister, niece, wife and mother of emperors. She was an empress in her own right. And she was a nuanced, fearless trailblazer in the Roman world.</p><p>The story of Agrippina ¿ the first empress of Rome ¿ is the story of an empire at its bloody, extravagant, chaotic, ruthless height.</p>