[98], After Nero's suicide in 68, there was a widespread belief, especially in the eastern provinces, that he was not dead and somehow would return. Suetonius wrote that Nero started the fire because he wanted the space to build his Golden House. When he called for a gladiator or anyone else adept with a sword to kill him, no one appeared. There were lavish games, plays, concerts, chariot races and gladiatorial tournaments, and taxes were even reduced. While Nero had retained some control of the situation, support for Galba increased despite his being officially declared a public enemy ("hostis publicus"[73]). Only fragments of these books remain and what does remain was abridged and altered by John Xiphilinus, an 11th-century monk. Suetonius wrote: "He [Nero] tried to poison Britannicus being not merely jealous of his voice … but afraid that the common people might be less attached to Claudius’s adopted son than to his real one." Dio reports that Tiridates said "I have come to you, my God, worshiping you as Mithras." The senators said that they believed his life was at risk and congratulated him on killing his own mom. After the death of her husband, Agrippina set her sights on the recently widowed Claudius, whose third wife Messalina had been murdered on his orders for, among other reasons, adultery and attempted treason. He was a senator under Commodus and governor of Smyrna after the death of Septimius Severus; and afterwards suffect consul around 205, and also proconsul in Africa and Pannonia. [14]:19, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome cautiously notes that Nero's reasons for killing his mother in 59 AD are "not fully understood. [25]:41–42 Ancient sources were critical of Nero's emphasis on the arts, chariot-racing and athletics. To find the necessary funds for the reconstruction, tributes were imposed on the provinces of the empire. In the eyes of traditionalists, this undermined the dignity and authority of his person, status, and office. Nero Burning ROM, commonly called Nero, is an optical disc authoring program from Nero AG.The software is part of the Nero Multimedia Suite but is also available as a stand-alone product. ", Tacitus wrote the following about Agrippina's marriage to Claudius: "From this moment the country was transformed. Nero was born in Antium, in Italy, on Dec. 15, A.D. 37, to his mother, Agrippina the Younger, and his father, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus. He is remembered as an ineffectual, neglectful and brutal leader. But the new emperor paid more heed to his advisors Burrus and the philosopher Seneca, and the result was five years of exemplary government. In 310, Lactantius wrote that Nero "suddenly disappeared, and even the burial place of that noxious wild beast was nowhere to be seen. This forced him to raise taxes wherever he could and even take religious treasures. [101] After persuading some to recognize him, he was captured and executed. [81], According to Suetonius and Cassius Dio, the people of Rome celebrated the death of Nero. [97] Vitellius overthrew Otho. He had an elaborate device created for her bedchamber ceiling which would collapse and crush her in her sleep; however, it proved to be too complicated to build and install. Nero may have taken the step of killing her as a way to protect his position as emperor. On the 9th of June, AD 68, the Emperor Nero committed suicide, the first Emperor to do so. “As Tacitus (the ancient writer) admits, various rumors circulated about Nero’s death and, because of them, many believed or pretended to believe that he was still alive.”, Sotter also notes this, writing that “the decades that followed Nero’s death saw a number of appearances in the East of imposters (or false Nero’s),” a sign that some in the Roman Empire still approved of the man who, today, is known so infamously. Britain wasn’t the only place where Rome had military trouble during Nero’s reign. According to Suetonius, Nero abandoned the idea when some army officers openly refused to obey his commands, responding with a line from Virgil's Aeneid: "Is it so dreadful a thing then to die?" In his reign, Nero relied upon the advice of others, often his freedmen, and in his death, he relied on one again, reflecting his life. "[20]:231 David Shotter noted that, despite events in Rome, Nero's step-brother Britannicus was more prominent in provincial coinages during the early 50s.

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