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Sculpture of Agrippina crowning her young son Nero (c. AD 54–59) In year one of Nero's reign, Agrippina began losing influence over Nero when he began to have an affair with the freed woman Claudia Acte, which Agrippina strongly disapproved of and violently scolded him for. Agrippina began to support Britannicus in her possible attempt to ...
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.
It would also have given Claudius an adult heir, for which he was looking to shore up his position. When Claudius chose Agrippina the Younger in order to consolidate the Julio-Claudian family, and picked her son, the future Emperor Nero, to fill the role of temporary older heir, Narcissus allied with Britannicus' circle in order to secure his ...
Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) was a great-great-grandson of Augustus and Livia through his mother, Agrippina the Younger. The younger Agrippina was a daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, as well as Caligula's sister. Through his mother, Nero was related by blood to the Julian and Claudian branches of the Imperial ...
Shotter writes the following about Agrippina's deteriorating relationship with Nero: "What Seneca and Burrus probably saw as relatively harmless in Nero—his cultural pursuits and his affair with the slave girl Claudia Acte—were to her signs of her son's dangerous emancipation of himself from her influence."
Atimetus tried to convince another of Domitia's freedmen, Lucius Domitius Paris, to denounce Agrippina as well, as Paris was seen to enjoy some favor in Nero's court. [ 1 ] When the accusation was made to the emperor, in 56 CE, Agrippina counter-accused Paris and Atimetus of inventing a melodramatic fiction, and successfully defended herself of ...
Julia Livilla was the youngest great-granddaughter of Emperor Augustus, great-niece and adoptive granddaughter of the Emperor Tiberius, sister of the Emperor Caligula, niece of the Emperor Claudius, and through her eldest sister Agrippina the Younger, maternal aunt of the Emperor Nero. In most ancient literary sources, on inscriptions and on ...
Anicetus was a freedman of the Roman emperor Nero, who – along with the freedman Beryllus – tutored the young emperor. [1] After tutoring Nero, Anicetus was made commander of the fleet (praefectus classis) at Misenum [2] in 59 AD. He was later employed by the emperor to murder Nero's own mother, Agrippina the Younger. Nero wished to see his ...