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Poppaea Sabina (30 AD – 65 AD), also known as Ollia, [1] was a Roman empress as the second wife of the emperor Nero. She had also been wife to the future emperor Otho . The historians of antiquity describe her as a beautiful woman who used intrigues to become empress .
Sporus (died 69 CE) was a young slave boy whom the Roman Emperor Nero had castrated and married as his Empress during his tour of Greece in 66–67 CE, allegedly in order for him to play the role of his wife, Poppaea Sabina, who had died the previous year.
Poppaea Sabina the Elder (c. 10 – c. 47 AD) was an aristocratic woman who lived during the Principate. During her lifetime she was famed for her beauty, but as Ronald Syme writes, her "fame and follies have been all but extinguished by her homonymous daughter", Poppaea Sabina the Younger . [ 1 ]
While nearly four million people visited Pompeii itself in 2019, just 55,000 made it to see Villa A (thought to have been owned by the emperor Nero and his second wife, Poppaea Sabina, whom he ...
Poppaea Sabina the Elder; Sporus; V. Villa Poppaea This page was last edited on 26 October 2023, at 09:51 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The gens Poppaea was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome.Members of this gens first appear under the early Empire, when two brothers served as consuls in AD 9. The Roman empress Poppaea Sabina was a descendant of this family, but few others achieved any prominence in the Roman state.
Poppaea Sabina (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Wives of Nero" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Crispinus married Poppaea Sabina, who would later become Empress (also Nero's second wife) and would bear him a son of the same name. They divorced, and Poppaea married Otho, whom she also divorced, going on to marry the Emperor Nero. Crispinus later became a member of the Roman Senate, due to property qualifications and enjoyed senatorial status.