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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.
Nero's wife, Poppaea Sabina, died in 65 CE. This was supposedly in childbirth, although it was later rumored Nero kicked her to death. At the beginning of 66 CE, Nero married Statilia Messalina. Later that year or in 67 CE, he married Sporus, who was said to bear a remarkable resemblance to Poppaea. [3]
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
He died in late December of AD 35 from natural causes. After his death, Poppaea Sabina the Younger assumed the name of her maternal grandfather. After Titus Ollius's death, Poppaea's mother married Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio the Elder, suffect consul, in 24 AD.
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.
Poppaea herself was to die in 65, allegedly as a result of a kick from Nero while she was pregnant. In the same year Seneca was ordered by the emperor to commit suicide for supposed involvement in the Pisonian conspiracy.
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.
