Agrippina the Younger
(16-59
AD)
Her
mother, Agrippina the Elder, was a pillar of virtue;
Agrippina the Younger elected to take the opposite
route. Only Roman woman to sleep with three Emperors
to whom she was related: (1) was concubine to her
brother Caligula (along with her two sisters), (2)
married her uncle, Claudius, and (3) seduced her son,
Nero. After she'd secured the throne for Nero by poisoning
Claudius, she settled scores via assassination; on
one occasion, she ordered the head of a female victim
to be brought to her so that she could reach inside
the head's mouth and confirm her kill by a telltale
irregularity of the teeth. After enjoying sex with
Nero for many years, she was stabbed to death by soldiers
while he watched.
Sources:
Dio, LXI & LXII; Suetonius,
Twelve Caesars; Tacitus,
Annals