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June 13, 2023: Nero Notes - Coggle Diagram

- - - - antium is called anzio today
  - - - Julia Agrippina
        
        also a patrician
        
        convinced claudius (whom she married, and is her uncle) to adopt nero and make him heir to the throne
        
        her motivation was so that she could still have power, or be high in the social hierachy
        
        was later given the title augusta - which is a title given to an empress, or a woman of an imperial family
        
        mother of nero
      - Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
        
        biological father
        
        died when nero was around 2 or 3 y.o.
        
        died early, so Nero was raised by his mother
        
        roman general
        
        served Antony as governor of Bithynia.
        
        from 40 - 35 CE
  - - - other plans that his mother executed, is having claudius be poisoned to kill him
        
        poisoned claudius in 54, and his son (who nero "competed against for the heir to the throne) in 55
    - - tutored by seneca
        
        was encouraged to act separately from his mother (independantly)
      - studied greek philosphy, and rhetoric
- - - - gardens were vast
    - - used his power mostly for personal pleasure
- - - - took power at a young age - around 17 y.o
        
        it was easier to take power as he had the support of both the senate and his army