Nero deprived his mother of all honors and powers, and even removed her Roman and German bodyguards.

Nevertheless, ancient sources allege poverty for the Flavian family at the time of Domitian's upbringing, even claiming Vespasian had fallen into disrepute under the emperors Caligula ( 37 – 41 ) and Nero ( 54 – 68 ).

His comedies are spoken of in the highest terms by the ancient writers, and under the Empire they not only continued to be read, but were even acted, of which an example occurs in the time of Nero.

It is not known how much Nero knew or if he was even involved in the death of Claudius.

However, Miriam Griffin argues that there is actually fairly little concrete evidence that Seneca was a major political influence on Nero, even in the early years.

Among Persius's satires were lines that, as Suetonius records, " even lashed Nero himself, who was then the reigning prince.

The visual art form of the cameo has even inspired at least one writer of more recent times, the 19th-century Russian poet Lev Mei, who composed a cycle of six poems entitled ( Cameos, 1861 ), as reflections on each of the Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Nero.

Lucien Bonaparte took an interest in the young poet, even transferring to him his own pension of 1000 francs from the Institut de France, and persuaded him to write a poem on the Death of Nero.

After that in 67, Nero would order a young freedman Sporus to be castrated and then marry him ; according to Dion Cassius, Sporus bore an uncanny resemblance to Sabina, and Nero even called him by his dead wife ’ s name.

Poppaea is portrayed as cynically plotting to become empress of Rome by manipulating the emperor Nero into marrying her, and her machinations even include the execution of Seneca the Younger, who opposes her plans, which are successful at the end of the drama.

Nero expressed the desire to marry Acte and had a genealogy fabricated linking her to King Attalus of Pergamum ; he even bribed ex-consuls to prepare to swear to her royal birthright, a move that enraged his mother Agrippina, who was very conscious and proud of her own, well-established patrician ancestry.

Nevertheless, ancient sources allege poverty for the Flavian family at the time of Domitian's upbringing, even claiming Vespasian had fallen into disrepute under the emperors Caligula ( 37 – 41 ) and Nero ( 54 – 68 ).

There is no limit to the depth of the Alcyonian Lake, and I know of nobody who by any contrivance has been able to reach the bottom of it since not even Nero, who had ropes made several stades long and fastened them together, tying lead to them, and omitting nothing that might help his experiment, was able to discover any limit to its depth.

The player can gain access to this minigame by talking to Nero the cat ( Kuro in the original Japanese version ) or completing the game an even number of times.

The emperor Nero, a pupil of Seneca's, may even have performed in some of them.

* ( and even with an explanation that the narrator knows an unrecitable limerick about Emperor Nero )

Owing to a similarity between names, one legend even traces the Nürburg back to a fort established by Emperor Nero.

After debuts in Chicago, Dallas, Boston, and in San Francisco — where the Chronicles Robert Commanday wrote of her appearance in Monteverdi's L ' incoronazione di Poppea, " The means by which Poppea seduces Nero ... could liquefy even stone the way the sensational new mezzo soprano Tatiana Troyanos sang "— she returned to New York to make her Metropolitan Opera debut as Octavian, closely followed by the Composer, in the spring of 1976.

She was the second granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law, stepdaughter and daughter-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, mother of the Emperor Caligula, maternal second cousin and sister-in-law of the Emperor Claudius and the maternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero.

Agrippina the Younger would become a future Roman Empress and mother to the later Emperor Nero.

After Caligula delivered Tiberius ’ eulogy, Caligula sailed to Pandataria and the Pontine Islands and returned with the ashes of his mother and brother Nero.

She was a great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, great-niece and adoptive granddaughter of the Emperor Tiberius, sister of the Emperor Caligula, niece and fourth wife of the Emperor Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero.

His mother was Antonia Minor and his father was the general Nero Claudius Drusus.

According to Suetonius, Nero was annoyed at his mother being too watchful and tried three times to poison Agrippina, but she took the antidotes in time and survived.

Nero would have his mother ’ s death on his conscience.

Claudius was a Claudian through his father, Nero Claudius Drusus, and also possessed a blood connection to the Julian branch of the Imperial Family through his mother, Antonia Minor.

Nero was a direct descendant of Augustus and Livia through his mother, Agrippina the Younger.

# Tiberius was Augustus's stepson, because Tiberius's mother Livia Drusilla married Augustus as her third husband ( Tiberius and Drusus were Livia's only natural children by her first marriage to Tiberius Claudius Nero ( praetor 42 BC )).

# Nero, as well as being Claudius's great-nephew, was also his stepson, because Nero's mother Agrippina the Younger was Claudius's niece and fourth wife.

#* Antonia Minor, married Nero Claudius Drusus, the younger son of the Empress Livia Drusilla and brother of the Emperor Tiberius ; mother of the Emperor Claudius, grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, and maternal great-grandmother of the emperor Nero.

Aureus of Nero and his mother, Agrippina the Younger | Agrippina, c. 54.

* Emperor Nero ordered the murder of his mother Agrippina the Younger.

* March – Agrippina the Younger, mother of Nero ( killed by order of Nero )

* Agrippina the Younger or Julia Agrippina ( 15 – 59 ), daughter of Agrippina the Elder and Germanicus, wife of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and later Claudius, mother of Nero

Due to his devotion to her, Messalina was able to manipulate Claudius into ordering the exile or execution of various people: the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger ; Claudius ’ nieces Julia Livilla and Julia ; Marcus Vinicius ( husband of Julia Livilla ); consul Gaius Asinius Pollio II ( see Vipsania Agrippina ); the elder Poppaea Sabina ( mother of Empress Poppaea Sabina, second wife of Nero ); consul Decimus Valerius Asiaticus ; and Polybius.

Historical facts are also sometimes changed: in Plutarch Antony's final defeat was many weeks after the battle of Actium, and Octavia lived with Antony for several years and bore him two children: Antonia Major, paternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero and maternal grandmother of the Empress Valeria Messalina, and Antonia Minor, the sister-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, mother of the Emperor Claudius, and paternal grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger.

She was the mother of the emperor Tiberius, paternal grandmother of the emperor Claudius, paternal great-grandmother of the emperor Caligula, and maternal great-great grandmother of the emperor Nero.

With Augustus being the father of only one daughter ( Julia the Elder by Scribonia ), Livia revealed herself to be an ambitious mother and soon started to push her own sons Tiberius and Nero Claudius Drusus into power.

The woman usually called Antonia the Younger was the younger niece of the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, paternal grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, mother of the Emperor Claudius, and both maternal great-grandmother and paternal great-aunt of the Emperor Nero.

She teamed up with another beauty, whose name has been lost to history, and commenced with some fiddling that would have made Nero envious.

This child would grow up to become the Emperor Nero.

Agrippina and Nero would see each other on short visits.

Additionally, Suetonius reveals that Poppaea's husband, Otho, was not sent away by Nero until after Agrippina's death in 59, making it highly unlikely that already married Poppaea would be pressing Nero.

Nero designed a ship that would open at the bottom while at sea.

Fearing Suetonius ' actions would provoke further rebellion, Nero replaced the governor with the more conciliatory Publius Petronius Turpilianus.

Claudius ' will had been changed shortly before his death to either recommend Nero and Britannicus jointly or perhaps just Britannicus, who would have been considered an adult man according to Roman law only a few months later.

The Sibylline oracles contain predictions that the dead Roman Emperor Nero, infamous for his persecutions, would return one day as an Antichrist-like figure.

In the Rex Stout novel " Counterfeit for Murder " ( found in the < i > Homicide Trinity </ i >), character Hattie Annis states that Nero Wolfe " would do fine for Falstaff.

The Roman historian Tacitus reports that Prasutagus had left a will leaving half his kingdom to Nero in the hope that the remainder would be left untouched.

Through his daughters by Octavia, he would be ancestor to the Roman Emperors Caligula, Claudius and Nero.

Nero's statues were again set up, his freedmen and household officers reinstalled ( including the young castrated boy Sporus who Nero had taken in marriage and Otho would also live intimately with ), and the intended completion of the Golden House announced.

If, as was common, this was the emperor, citizenship would have been granted between AD 41 and 68 ( when Claudius, and then Nero, were emperors ).

Peter and Paul were then put in prison by Nero while ordering Simon's body be kept carefully for three days ( thinking he would rise again ).

Roman rulers began to persecute the new sect almost immediately ( the emperor Nero accused the Christians of starting the fires that destroyed much of Rome in 64 AD ), and would continue to do so for centuries, sometimes vigorously, and other times passively.

What little is known of Titus's early life has been handed down to us by Suetonius, who records that he was brought up at the imperial court in the company of Britannicus, the son of emperor Claudius, who would be murdered by Nero in 55.

Because of his many alleged vices, many Romans feared at this point that he would be another Nero.

He was born shortly after Livia divorced Tiberius Nero and married Augustus ( 17 January, 38 BC ), giving rise to rumours that Augustus was the real father, although this is widely discredited by modern historians as Augustus had not yet met Livia when Drusus would have been conceived ( During his reign, Claudius revived this rumor to give the impression that Augustus was his paternal grandfather in addition to being his maternal great-uncle ).

Tiberius Claudius Nero was present at the wedding, giving her in marriage " just as a father would.

In his Pumpkinification ( 54 ) he ridiculed several behaviors and policies of Claudius that every Stoic should have applauded ; a reading of the text shows it was also an attempt to gain Nero's favor by flattery — such as proclaiming that Nero would live longer and be wiser than the legendary Nestor.