![]() ![]() Nero's practical contributions to Rome's governance focused on diplomacy, trade, and culture. Roman sources implicate Nero in the deaths of both his wife Claudia Octavia – supposedly so he could marry Poppaea Sabina – and his stepbrother Britannicus. His power struggle with his mother was eventually resolved when he had her murdered. ![]() In the early years of his reign, Nero was advised and guided by his mother Agrippina, his tutor Seneca the Younger, and his praetorian prefect Sextus Afranius Burrus, but soon sought to rule independently and rid himself of restraining influences. When Claudius died in AD 54, Nero became emperor with the support of the Praetorian Guard and Senate. ![]() When Nero was three, his father died when Nero was eleven, his mother married the emperor Claudius who adopted Nero as his heir. Nero was born at Antium in AD 37, the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger, a great-granddaughter of the emperor Augustus. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( / ˈ n ɪər oʊ/ NEER-oh born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68) was Roman emperor and the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his death in AD 68. ![]()
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