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  Nero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nero was proclaimed an adult in 51 at the age of fourteen.
Nero proceeded to declare the divorce on grounds of infertility, leaving him free to marry Poppaea and wait for her to give birth.
Nero had thrown open his grounds for the display, and was putting on a show in the circus, where he mingled with the people in the dress of charioteer or drove about in his chariot.
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Ahenobarbus (Nero) was the son of Agrippina the younger, 4th wife of Claudius Nero Germanicus, who had adopted (see adoption in Rome) him just before his death (which is considered the result of a manoeuvre by Agrippina and Seneca, Nero's tutor) most probably to ensure his succession.
Nero's reign, garnished with a constellation of murders and immoral behaviours of all the figures involved, is not among the brightest pages of Roman history.
However, Poppaea became Nero's mistress in 58 and is supposed to have organised Agrippina's murder (59) with Nero's acquiescence.
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 Nero - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
However, Nero lost his chances at redeeming his reputation when he immediately produced plans of rebuilding Rome in a monumental – and less flammable – style; his famous Domus Aurea ("Golden House") was part of his rebuilding plan.
Nero's participation went along with huge sums of bribery; the Greeks postponed the Games upon Nero's wish and furthermore introduced the chariot race.A magnificent villa in Olympia was erected for Nero's stay (and can be visited at the archaelogical site).
While homosexual relations were not uncommon during this time, Nero took it a step further and castrated his lover, had a ceremony complete with a bridal veil and full dowry, and all while Nero "imitated the cries and lamentations of a maiden being deflowered" during the ceremony
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 Nero (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nero's Italian Restaurant, a franchise of Italian restaurant in Perth, Western Australia.
Vice Principal Nero, a character from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events series, who is vice principal of Prufrock Preparatory School and is a horrid violin player.
Nero, a member of the secret government organization CP9 from the manga and anime One Piece.
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 Nero - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Nero was the fifth and last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
Nero had to engage in scapegoating of his own and chose for his target a small sect of reputed misanthropes called Christians.
Nero and the Christians remain popular suspects while others consider the fire to be an accidental disaster.
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 Nero Essay @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
On January 1, 49 she became the fourth wife of Claudius.
In 61 a major rebellion broke out in the new province of Britannia, centered upon the native tribal leader Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, who had been flogged and whose daughters had been raped by the Romans.
In the Golden Legend, and its apochryphal account of his forcing Seneca the Younger's suicide, where they meet face to face on this occasion.
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 Nero : search word
For other meanings, see Nero (disambiguation).'' Nero Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (December 15, 37 AD - June 9, 68 AD), born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, was the fifth and last Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
All this gave rise to a feeling of pity, even towards men whose guilt merited the most exemplary punishment; for it was felt that they were being destroyed not for the public good but to gratify the cruelty of an individual." It is entirely unknown who or what was the cause of the fire.
In 65 Nero was involved in another scandal, considered more serious by the people of that era, then it would be now.
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