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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]
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 ...
[50] [51] [52] These came to an end in March 59 when Nero, possibly at the urging of Poppaea, murdered his mother, doing so with the assistance of Anicetus, a former tutor of Nero's who had become an admiral. [53] [54] [55] Coin of Claudia Octavia. Octavia was well-liked by the Roman populace, [56] [57] but her marriage to Nero was loveless and ...
During this upheaval, Nero overturns a lamp, which leads to the burning of Rome. This he blames on the Christians and orders a general persecution, in which Acte dies. When the populace eventually rises against him, Nero takes refuge with one of his freedmen and is killed by a slave. [5]
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In AD 59, encouraged by his mistress Poppaea, Nero murdered his mother Agrippina. His leading adviser, Seneca, was discharged and forced to commit suicide. After the Great Fire of Rome occurred in July AD 64, it was rumored that Nero had ordered the fire to clear space for a new palace, the Domus Aurea.
Nero was declared an enemy of the state, removed to the island of Pontia, and was killed or encouraged to kill himself in AD 31. According to Suetonius, he put an end to his own life when the executioner appeared before him with the instruments of death. [20] [19] [26]