Comments for AGRIPPINA:

Julia Vipsania Agrippina better known as Agrippina the Elder, was the youngest daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia Augusti, daughter of Caesar Augustus. She was her Agrippa's favourite daughter and her Augustus' favourite granddaughter. She is considered one of the greatest women to have played a part of history, possesing both virtue, strength and beauty. She was also the mother of Caligula and Agrippina the Younger (Mother of Nero). Agrippina was married to Germanicus, heir to the throne of Rome, but he was murdered during the rein of Tiberius, Agrippina's step-father (Germanicus' uncle). He eventurally murdered Agrippina's sons and banished her to Pandataria where she starved to death.

-- Cardwitch  4/6/2006

Agrippina is an opera by George Frideric Handel, of which the title and plot refer to Agrippina the Younger.

-- LMS  8/5/2007

Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova was a Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method - the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old Imperial Ballet School (today the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet) under the Maître de Ballet Marius Petipa throughout the mid to late 19th century, though mostly throughout the 1880s and 1890s.

-- LMS  8/5/2007

Pronounced ah-gree-PEE-nah.

-- AndrewJKD  4/19/2008

I don't really like the sound of the name with the 'g' and 'r' and the 'p's, but I'll admit that it's at least refreshingly different.

-- slight night shiver  5/14/2008

Also used in Russia, though considered as a somewhat old-fashioned name. A famous bearer (as LMS has already pointed out) is Agrippina Vaganova.

The possible nicknames are Gapa, Gasha, Grusha, Gunya and Granya.

According to Wikipedia, Agrafena is the folk a form of Agrippina.

-- ToveTer  5/26/2008

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