Nero was adopted by Claudius at age 13.
Nero is one of the most tormented emperors in all of Rome who let his city burn while he was playing his lyre as the story was told.
he was 17 when he became emperor.
his first year as emperor he gained reputation of political generosity by sharing power with the senate.
Nero attempted to kill his mother Agrippina by drowning her but ended up stabbing her in the villa.
after Octavia (his former wife) was exiled and executed he married Poppaia. Three years later Roman historian Tacitus describes "A casual outboast of rage" Nero killed her with a kick to her stomach. When his Rome was in flames citizens saw what looked like he was playing the lyre. Other rumors was that he did it himself to expand palace complex for his own purposes. But he blamed the Christians and had them executed. In the final years of Nero Rome was in great debt and other problems with Nero gone. Upon his return he tried to flee but learning that his arrest and exaction was imminent he took his own life with the words "What an artist dies in me!"
Nero is one of the most tormented emperors in all of Rome who let his city burn while he was playing his lyre as the story was told.
he was 17 when he became emperor.
his first year as emperor he gained reputation of political generosity by sharing power with the senate.
Nero attempted to kill his mother Agrippina by drowning her but ended up stabbing her in the villa.
after Octavia (his former wife) was exiled and executed he married Poppaia. Three years later Roman historian Tacitus describes "A casual outboast of rage" Nero killed her with a kick to her stomach. When his Rome was in flames citizens saw what looked like he was playing the lyre. Other rumors was that he did it himself to expand palace complex for his own purposes. But he blamed the Christians and had them executed. In the final years of Nero Rome was in great debt and other problems with Nero gone. Upon his return he tried to flee but learning that his arrest and exaction was imminent he took his own life with the words "What an artist dies in me!"