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Poppaea Sabina (30 AD – 65 AD), also known as Ollia, [1] was a Roman empress as the second wife of the emperor Nero.She had also been wife to the future emperor Otho.The historians of antiquity describe her as a beautiful woman who used intrigues to become empress. [2]The large Villa Poppaea at Oplontis near Pompeii bears her name because of the archaeological finds there.
Two themes that emerge in the poem are the wife’s devotion to her husband and her role as heavenly caretaker for her deceased children, a portrait that is in contrast to Tacitus’ Poppaea, who “did not distinguish between husbands and adulterers” (Ann. 13.45.3) and whose goal of marriage entails the murder of Agrippina and divorce of ...
After the end of the games Poppaea met her death by the chance fury of her husband, by whom with a blow of the foot she was struck while pregnant, for I am not inclined to believe poison, although some authors (out of hatred more than faithfully) hand down that account: for indeed he was desirous of children and submissive to his love of
Whether intentional or not, the cause for Poppaea’s death was that Nero kicked her while she was pregnant. [19] Although dead, Poppaea’s influence continued as Nero sought to replace her with both men and women who resembled her physical beauty.
After Ollius' death she married Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio, consul in AD 24. Scipio had a son by a previous marriage Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio the Younger (consul in AD 56). With Poppaea Sabina the Elder they had a son, Publius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus , suffect consul in 68.
23 Αυγ 2012 · A just-deciphered ancient Greek poem discovered in Egypt deifies Poppaea Sabina, the wife of the infamous Roman emperor Nero, showing her ascending to the stars.
POPPAEA, SABINA °, second wife of Nero (62–65 c.e.). Josephus describes her as being sympathetic toward Judaism, even terming her a "god-fearing" woman (Ant., 20, 189–96). She twice interceded successfully on behalf of the Jews.
