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The Twelve Caesars, often titled Lives of the Caesars in English, is a collection of 12 biographies covering Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire in historical order. It was written in 121 CE by Suetonius .
Study Guide. Book Brief. Nero Chapter Summaries & Analyses. Sections 1-7 Summary. Nero’s father belonged to an old and wealthy aristocratic family, the Domitians. When Nero’s mother Agrippina married her uncle Claudius, Claudius adopted Nero as his son and heir. Sections 8-33 Summary.
Nero was born at Antium nine months after the death of Tiberius, on the eighteenth day before the Kalends of January, just as the sun rose, so that he was touched by its rays almost before he could be laid upon the ground.
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Nero, chapter 1. Hide browse bar. life: chapter: Two celebrated families, the Calvini and Aenobarbi, sprung from the race of the Domitii. The AEnobarbi derive both their extraction and their cognomen from one Lucius Domitius, of whom we have this tradition: -- As he was returning out of the country to Rome, he was met ...
Roman History and Historiography. Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar), Roman emperor 54–68 ce, was born 15 December 37 of Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32 ce) and Iulia Agrippina. To strengthen his doubtful claim to the throne, stories had been spread of his miraculous childhood (Suet. Ner. 6; Tac. Ann. 11.
INTRODUCTION. Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus was the fifth Roman emperor and, upon his death in AD 68, the last representative of Rome’s first imperial dynasty, the Julio-Claudians. In the popular imagination, he is the quintes-sential vicious tyrant, with a prodigious appetite for villainy.
Nero, in full Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus (or Drusus) Germanicus orig. Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, (born Dec. 15, ad 37, Antium, Latium—died June 9, 68, Rome), Roman emperor (54–68). He was adopted by Claudius when the emperor married Nero’s mother, Agrippina the Younger, and took the throne after Claudius died.
