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  2. Agrippina the Younger - Wikipedia

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    Nero would have his mother's death on his conscience. He felt so guilty he would sometimes have nightmares of her, even seeing his mother's ghost and getting Persian magicians to ask her for forgiveness. [27] Years before she died, Agrippina had visited astrologers to ask about her son's future. The astrologers had rather accurately predicted ...

  3. Nero - Wikipedia

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    Domitius died in AD 41. A few years before his father's death, his father was involved in a serious political scandal. [6] His mother and his two surviving sisters, Agrippina and Julia Livilla, were exiled to a remote island in the Mediterranean Sea. [7] His mother was said to have been exiled for plotting to overthrow the emperor Caligula. [4]

  4. Nero (2004 film) - Wikipedia

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    Poppaea Sabina's death is portrayed differently than how it reportedly occurred. According to the historical sources, she was kicked to death by Nero in a vicious rage. The film also omits Nero's other reported attempts to kill his mother Agrippina the Younger, first by poisoning. In his second attempt he had his mother's mattress fixed so that ...

  5. Nero’s theater — where audience may have sat on ‘pain of ...

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    The Roman elite despised Emperor Nero’s “artistic endeavors,” a historian said. Nero’s theater — where audience may have sat on ‘pain of death’ — discovered in Rome Skip to main ...

  6. Sporus - Wikipedia

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    Nymphidius treated Sporus as a wife and called him "Poppaea". Nymphidius tried to make himself emperor but was killed by his own guardsmen. [12] [13] In 69 CE, Sporus became involved with Otho, the second of a rapid, violent succession of four emperors who vied for power during the chaos that followed Nero's death. Otho had once been married to ...

  7. Claudia Octavia - Wikipedia

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    Claudia Octavia (late 39 or early 40 – June 9, AD 62) was a Roman empress.She was the daughter of the Emperor Claudius and Valeria Messalina.After her mother's death and father's remarriage to her cousin Agrippina the Younger, she became the stepsister of the future Emperor Nero.

  8. Julio-Claudian dynasty - Wikipedia

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    Ancient historians describe Nero's early reign as being strongly influenced by his mother Agrippina the Younger, his tutor Seneca, and the Praetorian Prefect Burrus, especially in the first year. In the first year of his reign, Nero had left all of the day-to-day running of the Empire to his mother Agrippina the Younger.

  9. Her son shot himself by accident with her gun. Should she be ...

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    For instance, in 2010, a 2-year-old boy fatally shot himself with a gun his mother had left in a dresser drawer, forgetting to put it in her lockbox. She pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and ...