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Tacitus and Suetonius wrote their histories on Nero over 50 years after his death, while Cassius Dio wrote his history over 150 years after Nero's death. These sources contradict one another on a number of events in Nero's life, including the death of Claudius , the death of Agrippina , and the Roman fire of AD 64, but they are consistent in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Villa Poppaea: caldarium of the private baths. Poppaea Sabina the Younger was born in Pompeii in AD 30 as the daughter of Titus Ollius and Poppaea Sabina the Elder. [3] At birth and for most of her childhood she went by her proper patronymic nomen "Ollia", belonging to women of her father's gens, the Ollii, but at some point, probably before her first marriage, decided to start going by her ...
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 ...
In AD 29, Tiberius wrote a letter to the Senate attacking Nero and his mother, and the Senate had them both exiled. Two years later, he died in exile on the island of Ponza. His brother Drusus also died in exile in AD 33. Their deaths allowed for the adoption and ascension of their younger brother, Caligula, following the death of Tiberius in ...
— Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German polymath and occultist (18 February 1535), to his black dog (allegedly his familiar) "I die the King's good servant, and God's first." [81] [82] [83] [note 51] — Thomas More, Lord High Chancellor of Britain (6 July 1535), prior to beheading for treason "Mine eyes desire thee only. Farewell." [85]
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.