He divorced his first wife to marry her, then quickly impregnated her once they were married. Then Poppaea mysteriously perished before having their second child. Historians of the time claim that Nero actually kicked Poppaea to death. Modern historians are a bit more forgiving, and claim it's equally as likely that Poppaea perished of a miscarriage. Though he was content to simply hit up some brothels in his youth, as he got older, his tastes got a little more violent.
However, after Emperor Claudius married his niece, Nero's mother Agrippina, Agrippina persuaded her husband to adopt Nero as his son.
This plan ultimately backfired, though, as once Nero took the throne at the young age of 17, he was warned by both his advisors and his friends to watch out for Agrippina. In the final months of his short life , the emperor tried to flee Rome after some political hostility and a healthy dose of paranoia. He made it as far as the port city of Ostia ; unfortunately, a few of the officers in the city refused to listen when the emperor gave them commands, so Nero slunk back to the Roman palace.
In a move of Shakespearean-level drama, a courier arrived to tell Nero that the Senate had declared him an enemy of the state and that they intended to beat him to death at their earliest convenience. Ultimately, they decided to reinstate the emperor and sent a second envoy to let him know.
Meanwhile, Nero had spent the intervening time trying to work up the nerve to take his own life. When the Senate messenger arrived to tell him everything was cool, Nero heard the sound of horses approaching, panicked, and ordered his secretary Epaphroditus to do the job for him.
Epaphroditus obliged and stabbed Nero. Get information, inspiration and insight from email you. Register email.
Gnaeus later died in AD 40, when Agrippina was exiled for having been caught plotting with her sister and brother-in-law to assassinate Emperor Caligula. A year later, Emperor Caligula was assassinated by rebels, which made his uncle Claudius take the throne as Roman Emperor. Nero was later made the successor to the throne of the Roman Empire by Emperor Claudius because he was older than his half-brother, Britannicus.
Emperor Claudius died in AD Many ancient historians believe he was fed a poisonous mushroom by Agrippina. He was the youngest Roman emperor ever since. At that time, Nero the evil leader was driven to get rid of his mother. Britannicus is believed to have died because Nero poisoned him.
Four years later, the evil leader ordered that his mother be killed. However, the evil leader quickly grew bored and hated him. Another reason, because Nero had an affair with Poppaea Sabina. The evil leader then killed his wife after 8 years of marriage. Nero accuses Octavia of being sterile and committing adultery.
Emperor Nero the evil leader had several times strangled Octavia to death. However, the age of their marriage was not long, because Sabina finally died at the hands of Emperor Nero, the evil leader. Shortly after their marriage, their relationship was filled with quarrels until one day Emperor Nero kicked Sabina in the stomach who was pregnant with her second child. Of course, he would later order his mother put to death.
What's ironic is that Emperor Nero was liked by the public. Well, at least by those who weren't Christian; those who were found themselves eaten alive by dogs, among other things. But Nero was into the arts, and that was something people liked. It wasn't until after the Great Fire of Rome in 64 that things really soured when he was accused of fiddling while the city of Rome burned.
But historians wonder if he was unfairly blamed for that tragedy. Historians are not looking to completely absolve Emperor Nero in the slightest — there is no question that he was a bad man. After all, he had his mother killed and had not one but possibly two wives killed, not to mention all of his atrocities to Christians.
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