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Nero's previous advisor Seneca was accused by Natalis; he denied the charges but was still ordered to commit suicide, as by this point he had fallen out of favor with Nero. [82] Nero was said to have kicked Poppaea to death in AD 65, before she could give birth to his second child.
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).
Lucius Clodius Macer revolts against the reign of Nero. The Senate declares Nero as persona non grata. June 9 – Emperor Nero commits suicide four miles outside Rome. He is deserted by the Praetorian Guard, and then stabs himself in the throat. June 9 – The Roman Senate accepts Servius Sulpicius Galba, as Roman Emperor.
Forced suicide is a method of execution where the victim is coerced into committing suicide to ... the Roman Emperor Nero, who himself was forced to commit suicide at ...
Seneca's influence over Nero declined with time, and in 65 Seneca was executed by forced suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, of which he was probably innocent. [3] His stoic and calm suicide has become the subject of numerous paintings.
65 CE – Seneca was forced to commit suicide after falling out with Emperor Nero. 415 – Hypatia was lynched by a mob of Christians. 430 – Saint Augustine died in Hippo while the city was under siege by the Vandals. 526 – Boethius was strangled on the orders of the Ostrogoth king Theodoric by whom he was employed.
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 ...
This line of emperors ruled the Roman Empire, from its formation (under Augustus, in 27 BC) until the last of the line, Emperor Nero, committed suicide (in AD 68). [note 1] The name Julio-Claudian is a historiographical term, deriving from the two families composing the imperial dynasty: the Julii Caesares and Claudii Nerones.