Soon the Praetorian Guard declared allegiance to Galba, and the Senate followed suit, declaring Nero an enemy of the people. Rufus was then still a child the only thing, that he. He spent the small amounts of money, but the Eroy very carefully conducted the accounts. Upon his return to Rome in 68, Nero failed to respond decisively to a revolt in Gaul, prompting further unrest in Africa and in Spain, where the governor Galba declared himself legate of the Senate and Roman People. In the meantime Nero too became old and weak, and since he could not look after the farm as earlier, he had to buy some things from one white man by the name Eroy.
With things falling apart at home, Nero took an extended tour of Greece, where he gave himself to music and theatrical performance, drove a chariot in the Olympic games, announced pro-Hellenic political reforms and launched an expensive and futile project to dig a canal across the Isthmus of Corinth. The emperor’s old advisor Seneca was caught up in the affair and forced to commit suicide. In 65 a high-level conspiracy to assassinate the emperor emerged, leading Nero to order the deaths of a prefect and several senators and officers. Reconstruction costs in Rome, revolts in Britain and Judea, conflicts with Parthia and rebuilding expenses in the capital forced him to devalue the imperial currency, lowering the silver content of the denarius by 10 percent. Nero’s Decline and Fallīy the final years of his Nero’s rule, the Roman Empire was under great strain. At its center he commissioned a 100-foot-tall bronze statue of himself, the Colossus Neronis. Nero exhausted the Roman treasury rebuilding the city around his 100-acre Domus Aurea (“Golden House”) palace complex. Upon Claudius’ sudden death in 54-classical sources suggest Agrippina fed him poisoned mushrooms-the 17-year-old Nero ascended the throne. Caligulas sister Drusilla Neros wife Poppaea Sabina Titus daughter, Julia and Domitians sister, Flavia Domitilla, never received the distinction of. She arranged for Nero to wed Claudius’ daughter Octavia in 53, further sidelining the emperor’s son Britannicus. Nero’s mother, Agrippina the Younger, had married Claudius after arranging the death of her second husband and was the driving force behind her son’s adoption.
Nero’s Murderous Path to Powerīorn Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, Nero took his familiar name when he was adopted at age 13 by his great-uncle, the emperor Claudius (his father, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, had died when the future emperor was only 2). He is best known for his debaucheries, political murders, persecution of Christians and a passion for music that led to the probably apocryphal rumor that Nero “fiddled” while Rome burned during the great fire of 64 A.D. This was supposedly in child birth although it was later rumored Nero kicked her to death. until his death by suicide 14 years later. Perhaps the most infamous of Rome’s emperors, Nero Claudius Caesar (37-68 A.D.) ruled Rome from 54 A.D.
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