person
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
Nero
also: Caesar
Fifth Roman emperor (r. AD 54–68), Seneca's pupil, who succeeded Claudius. The satire frames Nero's accession as the golden age the Fates spin and Apollo foretells.
Reading notes
- The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §3 Nero
Seneca's pupil, who succeeded Claudius in AD 54; the new prince whose golden age the passage celebrates in earnest.
- On Mercy §1.1 Nero Caesar
The young emperor (r. AD 54–68), Seneca's pupil and the addressee of the whole treatise, here in the first flush of a reign Seneca hoped to steer toward clemency.
- Natural Questions §1.5.6 Nero Caesar
The reigning emperor (r. AD 54–68), quoted here for a verse on the shifting colors of a dove's neck; Seneca was his former tutor.
- Octavia §257 Nero
Nero (r. AD 54-68), here called 'the grafted' because adopted into the Claudian house though born of Domitius; the tyrant of the play.