Topic: Nero

Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar) , AD 37-AD 68, Roman emperor (AD 54-AD 68). He was originally named Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and was the son of Cnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul in AD 32) and of Agrippina the Younger , who was the great-granddaughter of Augustus. Agrippina married (AD 49) Claudius I and persuaded him to adopt Nero. In AD 55, Agrippina saw the bonds of her domination of Nero loosening and intrigued in favor of Claudius' son, Britannicus, but Nero poisoned the boy. Poppaea Sabina , the wife of his friend Otho , became his mistress; according to rumor she was to blame... Read more