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During the remainder of Nero's reign, Agrippina's grave was not covered or enclosed. Her household later on gave her a modest tomb in Misenum. [33] 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 ...
Relief from the Sebasteion depicting Nero and his mother, Agrippina. Nero formally entered public life as an adult in AD 51 while 13 years old. [12] When he turned 16, Nero married Claudius' daughter (his step-sister), Claudia Octavia.
Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) was a great-great-grandson of Augustus and Livia through his mother, Agrippina the Younger. The younger Agrippina was a daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, as well as Caligula's sister. Through his mother, Nero was related by blood to the Julian and Claudian branches of the Imperial ...
Nero (on the left), saluting Tiberius (seated, on the right) (detail of the Great Cameo of France).. Nero's mother Agrippina believed her husband was murdered to promote Drusus the Younger as heir, and feared that the birth of his twin sons would give him a motive to displace her own sons.
Der Schiffbruch der Agrippina, by Gustav Wertheimer, showing the drowning of Acerronia. Acerronia Polla was a servant and friend of Agrippina the Younger, the mother of Nero. She was drowned in AD 59, when an unsuccessful attempt was made at the same time to drown Agrippina. She may have been the daughter of Gnaeus Acerronius Proculus, consul ...
The young emperor Nero proves himself spoiled, childish and unable to cope with the government of Rome. His domineering mother Agrippina and the wise philosopher Seneca try to make change the personality of the emperor, but nothing can make Nero into a wise and honorable ruler. Agrippina then takes advantage of a poetic and theatrical failure ...
Many of the characters are historical, including Nero, Octavia, Poppea, Nero's mother Agrippina, and Seneca the philosopher. [33] [34] Several of these appear in Handel's later (1709) opera Agrippina. [35] Another real-life figure who appears in Nero is Anicetus, who historically is held to have murdered Agrippina on Nero's behalf. [36]
Nero put this strategy into action, though the collapsing boat failed to kill Agrippina. Afterwards, on 23 March AD 59, Anicetus himself stabbed Agrippina to death in her villa, on orders from Nero. [3] [4] [5] Anicetus was subsequently induced by Nero to confess having committed adultery with Nero's wife, Claudia Octavia. [1] [6] As punishment ...