Poppaea Sabina (30-65) was a Roman Empress and second wife of the Roman Emperor Nero. The historians of antiquity describe her as a beautiful woman who used intrigues to become empress.
Poppaea was the first child and daughter to Titus Ollius and an elder Poppaea Sabina. She was born in Pompeii. Titus Ollius was a quaestor in the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. Ollius' friendship with the Imperial palace guardsman Lucius Aelius Sejanus ruine...
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Poppaea Sabina (30-65) was a Roman Empress and second wife of the Roman Emperor Nero. The historians of antiquity describe her as a beautiful woman who used intrigues to become empress.
Poppaea was the first child and daughter to Titus Ollius and an elder Poppaea Sabina. She was born in Pompeii. Titus Ollius was a quaestor in the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. Ollius' friendship with the Imperial palace guardsman Lucius Aelius Sejanus ruined him, before gaining public office. Titus Ollius was from Picenum (modern Marche and Abruzzo, Italy) and he was an unknown minor character in Imperial Politics. Her mother an elder Poppaea Sabina was a distinguished woman, whom the Roman Historian Tacitus praises as a wealthy woman and a woman of distinction. Tacitus describes her as ‘the loveliest woman of her day’. In 47, she committed suicide as an innocent victim of the intrigues of the Roman Empress Valeria Messalina.
The father of the elder Poppaea was Gaius Poppaeus Sabinus. This man...
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