Emperor nero facts and biography of rene

(37-68)

Who Was Nero?

Nero was born in 37 A.D., the nephew of the emperor.

After his father’s death, his mother married his great uncle, Claudius, and persuaded him to name Nero his successor. Nero took the throne at 17, rebuffed his mother’s attempts to control him, and had her killed.

Nero was artistic, sporting, brutal, weak, sensual, erratic, extravagant, sadistic, bisexual - and latterly almost certainly deranged.

Nero was artistic, sporting, brutal, weak, sensual, erratic, extravagant, sadistic, bisexual - and latterly almost certainly deranged.

Nero stands out as larger than life, a megalomaniac and villain so appallingly bad he nearly doesn't seem real.

Nero was more interested in the arts and culture than he ever was in becoming the emperor of Rome.

Nero ruled the Roman Empire from 54 to 68 CE, bringing to an end the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

Born in 37 AD and reigning for more than 13 years from 54 AD till his death in 68 AD, Nero was a Roman Emperor who is infamous for his insane.

He spent lavishly and behaved inappropriately. He began executing opponents and Christians. In 68, he committed suicide when the empire revolted.

Early Life and Ascent to the Throne

Nero was born as Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina, who was the great-granddaughter of the emperor Augustus.

He was educated in the classical tradition by the philosopher Seneca and studied Greek, philosophy and rhetoric.

After Ahenobarbus died in 48 A.D., Agrippina married her uncle, the emperor Claudius. She persuaded him to name Nero as his successor rather than his own son, Britannicus, and to offer his daughter, Octavia, as Nero’s wife, which he did in 50