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Historical person
10–69
Tigellinus was a Praetorian prefect and influential associate of Nero. Ancient sources connect him with repression after the Pisonian conspiracy, court excess and the violent politics of Nero’s later reign.
In Margaret George’s Emperor Nero, as accusations spread and opposition hardens, the court becomes dominated by informers, the praetorian prefect Tigellinus and conspiracies that implicate senators, writers and former advisers.
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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