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Historical person
40–c. 1st century
Claudia Acte was a freedwoman at the court of Nero and one of the emperor’s early companions. Ancient accounts place her within the personal and political struggles involving Nero, Agrippina and Octavia, and later tradition says she helped arrange Nero’s burial.
In Margaret George’s The Confessions of Young Nero, his attachment to the freedwoman Claudia Acte, his hostility towards his arranged marriage and his fear of the precedents set by Caligula and Claudius shape a young ruler trying to preserve both his life and his identity. Margaret George’s Emperor Nero places Claudia Acte within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, art, learning and intellectual life, and political ambition and government.
Series
Margaret George’s Nero duology reconstructs the life of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor, beginning with a childhood in which imperial blood makes Nero a target and ending with the collapse of his reign. Told largely through Nero’s own perspective, the series follows his passage through the courts of Caligula…
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