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Nero (Background, Extension History Questions, Influence, historians) -…

- - - - 17 years old
    - - governement handled by Seneca the younger and Burrus
      - political generosity
      - promoting power-sharing with the Senate
      - ending closed-door political trials
    - - adoration of hellenstic subjects
  - - - became a tyrant
      - considered a notorious and bad emperor
    - - not viewed as a future emperor at time of birth
    - - Agrippina the Younger
        
        believed to be domineering
        
        believed she manipulated her son to advance her interests
      - Gnaeus Domititus Ahenobarbus
      - born into a wealthy powerful family
    - - Wife - Octavia exiled (then killed by Nero)
      - Father - died of natural causes
      - Caligula (uncle) - assassinated
      - Mother - assissinated
    - - Octavia, the daughter of Claudius
      - affair with the very pregnant Poppaea Sabina then married
      - Married Sporus, male slave (looked like Poppaea)
  - - - serve as an example to hiim
  - - - combined families
        
        Claudii Nerones
        
        Julii Caesares
- - - - Nero on the roof of his palace during the fire, dressed in stage garb and singing from the Greek epic “The Sack of Ilium.”
      - in place of ruins he built his Golden house of Nero
    - - played the lyre
      - sang at private events
      - encouraged upper class to take dance lessons
      - public games held every 5 years
- - - - “How ugly and vulgar my life has become,” before turning on himself, saying “Come pull yourself together.”
  - - - Seneca's satirical skit Apocolocyntosis, which lampoons the deification of Claudius and praises Nero, dates from the earliest period of Nero's reign