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20 Οκτ 2023 · Her father, Titus Ollius, was implicated in a failed conspiracy against Emperor Tiberius and committed suicide when little Poppaea was still in the crib.
3 Ιαν 2024 · Nero went on to kill himself after Poppaea’s second husband (Otho) aided Galba in overthrowing the universally despised despot. Otho would then go on to become ruler himself for roughly eight...
Poppaea Sabina the Elder, her mother, was a distinguished woman, whom Tacitus praises as wealthy and "the loveliest woman of her day". In 47 AD, she committed suicide as an innocent victim of the intrigues of the Roman Empress Valeria Messalina, having been charged with committing adultery with former consul Decimus Valerius Asiaticus.
The use of a mise-en-abyme technique brilliantly makes Poppaea’s dream narrative mirror the actual setting and lets the double-layered wedding-funeral imagery find its culmination in the ambiguous murder-suicide scene involving Poppaea’s former and present husbands, Crispinus and Nero.
Sporus (died 69 CE) was a young slave boy whom the Roman Emperor Nero had castrated and married as his Empress during his tour of Greece in 66–67 CE, allegedly in order for him to play the role of his wife, Poppaea Sabina, who had died the previous year.
The Apotheosis of Poppaea. Sebastian Anderson. A papyrus published in 2011 (P. Oxy. 77.5105) containing 84 partially preserved hexameters describes the catasterism of a pregnant wife of Nero. She is presumed to be Poppaea Sabina, who died while pregnant (Tac. Ann. 16.6; Suet.
Her mother, also named Poppaea Sabina, was renowned for her beauty, and eventually suffered for it when she committed suicide after being falsely accused of adultery by Emperor Claudius’ wife, Messalina in 47. [2]
