![]() “Quinquennium Neronis”The first five years ( quinquennium) of Nero’s reign were characterized by good government at home and in the provinces and by the emperor’s popularity with the senate and people. The senate weakly acknowledged the new emperor.Ī. Immediately Nero was proclaimed emperor by the praetorian prefect Burrus the praetorian guard had been richly bribed. Claudius agreed to make a will in favor of Nero, but when he began to regret disinheriting his own son Britannicus, Agrippina poisoned Claudius. She persuaded Claudius to adopt Nero as his son, and the young man, formerly Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, became Nero Claudius Caesar Germanicus. After the murder of Claudius’s wife, Agrippina (by then widowed) wed Claudius, the law having been changed to allow her marriage to her father’s brother. He was betrothed and later married to Octavia, daughter of Claudius, who succeeded his nephew Caligula as emperor. Through her mother she was the great-granddaughter of the emperor Augustus, and this gave her son a strong claim to the throne.Īgrippina schemed to make Nero’s imperial claim a reality. His mother Agrippina, daughter of Germanicus and the older Agrippina, was a sister of the emperor Caligula. Nero’s father was Cnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (“brazen beard”), a man from an illustrious family but of vicious life. ![]() 37, began to reign October, 54, and died June 9, 68. The fifth Roman emperor, who was born at Antium in a.d. ![]() From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ![]()
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