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Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (/ ˈ n ɪər oʊ / NEER-oh; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68) was a Roman emperor and the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his death in AD 68.
Nero was the fifth and final emperor of Rome's first imperial dynasty, the Julio-Claudians. The Nero Redivivus legend was a belief popular during the last part of the 1st century that the Roman emperor Nero would return after his death in 68 AD. The legend was a common belief as late as the 5th century. [1]
The Historia Augusta is a collective biography, partly fictionalized, of Roman emperors and usurpers of the second and third centuries. In the ninth century, Einhard modelled himself on Suetonius in writing the Life of Charlemagne , even borrowing phrases from Suetonius' physical description of Augustus in his own description of the character ...
Ruins of a private theater belonging to the 1st century Roman Emperor Nero have been unearthed in the Italian capital just meters from the Vatican, in what experts are calling an “exceptional ...
— Galba, Roman emperor (15 January 69 CE), prior to beheading by supporters of Otho "Go and show yourself to the soldiers, lest they cut you to pieces for being accessory to my death." [15]: 25 — Otho, Roman emperor (16 April 69 CE), to a freedman, prior to committing suicide "Yet I was once your Emperor." [15]: 12
The Theatre of Nero (Latin: Theatrum Neronis) [1] was the private theatre erected in Rome by Nero, the Roman emperor between AD 53 and AD 68. [2] It was known only from literary sources until its remains were discovered in 2020. The remains were excavated through 2023. [1]
Church father Tertullian wrote: "We read the lives of the Cæsars: At Rome Nero was the first who stained with blood the rising faith" [17] Mary Ellen Snodgrass notes that Tertullian in this passage "used Suetonius as a source by quoting Lives of the Caesars as proof that Nero was the first Roman emperor to murder Christians", but cites not a specific passage in Suetonius's Lives as Tertullian ...
Nero Julius Caesar (c. AD 6–31) was the adopted grandson and heir of the Roman emperor Tiberius, alongside his brother Drusus. Born into the prominent Julio-Claudian dynasty , Nero was the son of Tiberius' general and heir, Germanicus .