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Nero ordered Piso, the philosopher Seneca, Seneca's nephew Lucan, and the satirist Petronius to commit suicide. Many others were also killed. Many others were also killed. In Plutarch 's version, one of the conspirators remarked to a condemned prisoner that all would change soon (because Nero would be dead).
After the emperor Nero committed suicide near the villa of his freedman Phaon in June of 68 AD, various Nero impostors appeared between the autumn of 69 AD and the reign of the emperor Domitian. [1] Most scholars set the number of Nero impostors to two or three, although St. Augustine wrote of the popularity of the belief that Nero would return ...
In AD 67 disturbances broke out in Judaea and Nero, ordering Vespasian to take command of the Roman forces, summoned Corbulo, as well as two brothers who were the governors of Upper and Lower Germania, to Greece. On his arrival at Cenchreae, the port of Corinth, messengers from Nero met Corbulo and ordered him to commit suicide. [9]
Following his defeat at the Battle of Thapsus, Cato chose to commit suicide rather than submit to life under Caesar's rule. [6] Cato would become eulogised by the prominent Stoics who came after him as a symbol opposed to autocratic rule. [6] For Seneca he was an official Stoic role-model whose martyrdom was reminiscent of Socrates' death. [6]
Octavia is a Roman tragedy that focuses on three days in the year 62 AD during which Nero divorced and exiled his wife Claudia Octavia and married another (Poppaea Sabina).The play also deals with the irascibility of Nero and his inability to take heed of the philosopher Seneca's advice to rein in his passions.
Together with the involvement of his son-in-law Lucius Annius Vinicianus in a foiled plot against Nero in 66, Corbulo became suspect in the eyes of the emperor. [65] In 67, while journeying in Greece, Nero ordered him to be executed; upon hearing of this, Corbulo committed suicide. [66] [67]
Piso was ordered to commit suicide and so he killed himself. His properties including the Villa Pisoni in Baiae were confiscated to become imperial property. Piso was survived by his son, Calpurnius Piso Galerianus , who married Calpurnia, daughter of Licinia Magna and Lucius Calpurnius Piso , [ 6 ] who served as one of the consuls in AD 57. [ 7 ]
Suetonius describes Nero's suicide, and remarks that his death meant the end of the reign of the Julio-Claudians (because Nero had no heir). According to Suetonius, Nero was condemned to die by the Senate. When Nero knew that soldiers had been dispatched by the Senate to kill him, he committed suicide.