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Historical person
30–65
Poppaea Sabina was the second wife of Nero and empress of Rome. Ancient sources connect her rise with the fall of Octavia and portray her as influential at court, though their accounts are shaped by moralising hostility.
In Margaret George’s Emperor Nero, with Poppaea Sabina beside him, Nero promotes public games, music and ambitious building projects, but the Great Fire of Rome in 64 CE turns his vision of a renewed capital into a source of suspicion.
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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