Nero: The Death And Death Of Emperor Nero

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“Every journey has an end.” For Emperor Nero his journey was short lived, ending at the young age of 30. His reign was full of lust, conspiracies, and murder all of which could top anything Forensic Files could have ever dreamed possible. He was not always destined to be the next Emperor to Rome and it would take a lot of planning, mostly by his mother, to make his succession possible. However, the young Emperor was a member of the unofficial dynasty of Rome, the Julio-Claudian’s, a lineage dating all the way back to Emperor Augustus who was the first and very beloved Emperor of Rome. Despite being a part of the Julio-Claudian legacy, Emperor Nero’s hegemony was filled with murder and questionable decisions that all eventually cultivated to his suicide. To start off with, to understand Emperor Nero one must understand the importance of his ancestry. He was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus to Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Julia Agrippina, also known as Agrippina the Younger, in AD 37 . The combination of Gnaeus and Julia was like a match made in elite heritage for Nero. Gnaeus’ mother, Nero’s grandmother, was Antonia the Elder. She was the daughter of Mark Antony, one of the three members of the Second Triumvirate of Rome, and Octavia the Younger, Emperor Augustus’ …show more content…

Because, once Caligula became Emperor, he took many symbolic actions to show that his three sisters, including Agrippina, were just as important and as powerful as he was . Emperor Caligula might have even made the young Lucius his heir had it not been for his sisters, Drusilla, death and his mental spiral downward. The Emperor then became paranoid. Accusing his remaining sisters of conspiracy, banishing them to the Pontine Islands, and auctioning off their estates and belongings . The toddler was left in the care of his ailing father and no hopes of every seeing the

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