He became the ruler of the Roman Empire after the ... that were met with brute force by the emperor. Nero would go on to marry the already pregnant Poppaea Sabina in that same year, A.D. 62 ...

he was taken as a “consort” and called Poppaea by one of the men who’d overthrown Nero. When that guy was killed in a power grab, Sporus was given to the new emperor, Otho, who “had ...

While he, like many Roman emperors, undoubtedly caused ... decided to divorce his wife Octavia and marry Poppaea. To justify these actions, Nero accused Octavia of adultery with an enslaved ...

When people think of Roman opulence and extravagance, the infamous Emperor Nero ... For context, the Villa Poppaea (a luxurious Roman villa in Campania also belonging to Nero) was around 2.47 ...

Against this backdrop of barbarity, Poppaea's days were also numbered. According to the Roman historian Suetonius, Nero's third wife died sometime in 65 CE after the emperor, in a fit of rage and ...

because the impersonation was of an entire Roman emperor; and second, because there were not one but three deceivers, no less. As can be deduced from the generic name, the victim was Nero, although ...

A double-faced Junus head, approximately dated to the 1st century A.D., is seen among other findings coming from the excavation of ancient Roman emperor Nero's theater. Andrew Medichini/AP ...