TdF suggestion Samuel Guterman
Illustrates wildner lima
Edition Felipe van Deursen
Raised in an environment of intrigue and menace, one of Rome’s most bloodthirsty tyrants ruled by madness.
CRIMINAL RECORD
Name – Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (37-68)
place of business – Roman Empire
deaths – More than 5,700*
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1. Nero was born from the union of the consul Gnaeus Enobard with Agrippina, sister of the newly sworn emperor, Caligula. Gnaeus was accused by Caligula’s predecessor Tiberius of treason, but escaped charges. he died when Nero was 2 years old. Agrippina is suspected of having poisoned the two men she would later marry.
two. After Caligula’s death, Claudius was crowned Emperor. He married Agrippina and adopted Nero, who thus ended up being drawn into the center of power. Britannicus, son of Claudius, was passed over in politics. Nerowho was older, became proconsul at 14 and ascended to the throne at 17, on the death of Claudius in the year 54
3. Here the atrocities begin. Some historians point Nero and his mother as responsible for an alleged poisoning of the emperor. In the power, Nero continued the murderous posture. Politicians who opposed the government were accused of conspiracy and executed. It was the case of three staunch opponents, Plautus, Sulla and Pallas
4. Nero he distanced himself from his mother, who started to support Britânico in politics. Fittingly, on the day Britannicus, then 14, was scheduled to be emancipated, his wine was spiked with poison. Nero registered the opponent’s death as a mere epileptic fit
5. the patience of Nero with the mother ended. He tried to fake her death in a boating accident, but Agrippina escaped. After, Nero commissioned the murder from her guardian, Anicetos, who killed the matriarch and made it look like a suicide. the fidelity to Nero to no avail, and Anicetos was banished from Rome on charges of adultery.
6. The emperor gradually overrode the power of the senate to act as he pleased. At home, he also got ready. He divorced his first wife, Cláudia Otávia, after accusing her of infertility. She was exiled and executed. In sequence, Nero married Pompeia Sabina and kicked her to death three years later
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7. With a well-organized military campaign, Nero repressed invasions by the Parthian Empire, a power of Persia. After successive defeats, the Parthians surrendered to Rome, which came to control their territories. Peace between Parth and Rome lasted for over 50 years, and Roman expansion bolstered Parthian political stability. Nero between 58 and 63
8. Nero he was intolerant of Christianity, a religion he considered superstitious and threatening. During his reign, Christians were persecuted, tortured and killed. Therefore, there are studies that say that the number 666 is a code to refer to Nerowho has come to be seen by many Christians over the centuries as an incarnation of the Antichrist
9. Started in a warehouse of flammable material in the Circus Maximus, the fire of Rome, in 64, affected ten of the 14 Roman districts. The Roman historian Suetonius accused Nero, whose aim was to build a new palace complex. For another Roman historian, Tacitus, it was the Romans who set the city on fire by chasing the Christians.
10. Revolts in important territories, such as Gaul, shook the power of Nero. Local governors allied and faced the capital. The rebellions became untenable, and the governor of Hispania declared himself emperor. Without support from the Praetorian Guard, which protected the Roman leaders, Nero tried to kill himself but didn’t have the courage
WHAT END DID IT TAKE?
Nero ordered his secretary to kill him with a blade on June 9, 68. He was buried in what is now the Villa Borghese park in Rome
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SOURCES Books The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol.1by Edward Gibbon The Life and Prince of the Emperor Neroby Bernard W. HendersonSuetonius Vol.I, Complete Works of Tacitus It is The Lives of 12 Caesarsby Suetonius