The founder of the Juvenalia and a namesake festival, he installed Tigranes and later Tiridates as kings of Armenia, and used the henchman Anicetus in divorcing and murdering his first wife.
The founder of the Juvenalia and a namesake festival, he installed Tigranes and later Tiridates as kings of Armenia, and used the henchman Anicetus in divorcing and murdering his first wife. Like Claudius, he married a Messalina as his third wife, but his only child died in infancy. This ruler was rebelled against by Clodius Macer, the governor of Africa, and commanded the general Corbulo to commit suicide. In early life he was advised the praetorian prefect Burrus and also the author of De Ira and the Apocolocyntosis. He forced a man known as his arbiter elegantiae, Petronius, to commit suicide, and employed the architect Fabullus to build a palace known as the Domus Aurea. The target of the Pisonian conspiracy, he was eventually unseated by the revolt of Gaius Vindex in Gaul. For Ten Points, name this husband of Poppaea, student of Seneca, and predecessor of Galba, the last of the Julio-Claudian Roman emperors.
The founder of the Juvenalia and a namesake festival, he installed Tigranes and later Tiridates as kings of Armenia, and used the henchman Anicetus in divorcing and murdering his first wife.
{Nero} Claudius Caesar