Three years later, in what the Roman historian Tacitus described as “a casual outburst of rage,” Nero killed Poppea with a single kick to her belly.ĭid you know? Although it’s unknown whether Nero sang and strummed his lyre while Rome burned in A.D.
The empress Octavia was exiled and executed, and in 62 Nero and Poppaea were married. But Nero had learned his mother’s lessons well: Brittanicus soon died under dubious circumstances, and in 59, after a failed plot to drown her in a collapsible boat, Nero had Agrippina stabbed to death in her villa. She turned against him, promoting her stepson Britannicus as the true heir to the throne and protesting Nero’s affair with his friend’s wife Poppaea Sabina. In his first five years as emperor, Nero gained a reputation for political generosity, promoting power-sharing with the Senate and ending closed-door political trials, though he generally pursued his own passions and left the ruling up to three key advisers-the Stoic philosopher Seneca, the prefect Burrus and ultimately Agrippina.Įventually Seneca encouraged Nero to step out from his domineering mother’s shadow.
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