His original name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. He established Armenia as a buffer state against Parthia, and a revolt was led against him by Gaius Calpurnius Piso.
His original name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. He established Armenia as a buffer state against Parthia, and a revolt was led against him by Gaius Calpurnius Piso. Declared emperor by prefect Sextus Afranius Burrus, he had revolters put to death, including his nephew the poet Lucan. He had his rival Britannicus poisoned, and killed his advisor Lucius Annaeus Seneca, as well as his mother Agrippina and his wife Octavia, whom he forsook in favor of Poppaea. The last of the Julio-Claudian emperors, FTP, name this fifth Roman emperor who supposedly fiddled while Rome burned.
His original name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. He established Armenia as a buffer state against Parthia, and a revolt was led against him by Gaius Calpurnius Piso.
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