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Sporus (died 69 AD) 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 AD, allegedly in order for him to play the role of his wife, Poppaea Sabina, who had died the previous year.
Epictetus (c. 55–135) was the slave to Nero's scribe Epaphroditos. [142] [better source needed] He makes a few passing negative comments on Nero's character in his work, but makes no remarks on the nature of his rule. He describes Nero as a spoiled, angry and unhappy man. [143] Josephus
Claudia Acte was a freedwoman of ancient Rome who became a mistress of the emperor Nero.She came from Asia Minor and might have become a slave of the Emperor Claudius, following his expansion of the Roman Empire into Lycia and Pamphylia; or she might have been purchased later, by Octavia, Claudius' daughter.
The slave-sales tax was increased under Nero to 4 percent, [407] with a misguided attempt to divert the burden to the seller, which only increased prices. [408] Tariffs on slaves imported to or exported from Italy were taken at harbor customs, as they were all around the Empire. [409]
The film features many uncredited supporting parts and cameos: including Elizabeth Taylor as a Christian prisoner in arena, [citation needed] Sophia Loren as a Lygian slave, [4] Christopher Lee as a chariot driver, Clelia Matania as Parmenida the hairdresser, Marika Aba as the Assyrian Dancer at Nero's banquet, Richard Garrick as a slave with ...
Nero Hawley (1742 – January 30, 1817) was an African-American soldier who was born into slavery in North Stratford, Connecticut, and later earned his freedom after enlisting in the Continental Army in place of his owner, Daniel Hawley, on April 20, 1777, during the American Revolution. [1]
Caesar Nero Paul (c. 1741–1823), enslaved as a child in Africa and brought to Exeter, New Hampshire, he was freed and started a prominent New England family of abolitionists. Pope Callixtus I (died 223), a formerly-enslaved man, pope from about 218 to about 223, during the reigns of Roman emperors Heliogabalus and Alexander Severus.
Obverse: Greek letters ΝΕΡ ΩΝΟ Ϲ ("of Nero") in wreath. Reverse: Greek letters ΚΑΙϹΑΡΟϹ (" Caesar ") and date LC (year 3 = 56/57), palm branch . Antonius Felix (possibly Tiberius Claudius Antonius Felix , [ 1 ] in Greek : ὁ Φῆλιξ ; born c. 5–10 ) was the fourth Roman procurator of Judea Province in 52–60, in ...