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    Poppaea Sabina (30 AD – 65 AD), also known as Ollia, was a Roman empress as the second wife of the emperor Nero. She had also been wife to the future emperor...
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  • Poppaea Sabina the Elder (c. 10 – c. 47 AD) was an aristocratic woman who lived during the Principate. During her lifetime she was famed for her beauty...
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  • Sporus (category Poppaea Sabina)
    66–67 CE, allegedly in order for him to play the role of his wife, Poppaea Sabina, who had died the previous year. Ancient historians generally portrayed...
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    Nero (category Poppaea Sabina)
    deaths of both his wife Claudia Octavia – supposedly so he could marry Poppaea Sabina – and his stepbrother Britannicus. Nero's practical contributions to...
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    Emperor Nero and a pottery shard bearing the name of a freedman of Poppaea Sabina, the second wife of the emperor Nero was found at the site, which suggests...
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    Roman people, but she and Nero hated their marriage. When his mistress, Poppaea Sabina, became pregnant, he divorced and banished Octavia. When this led to...
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    Nero Julius Caesar 3 Valeria Messalina 1 Claudia Octavia Britannicus Julia Drusilla 1 Otho 2 Poppaea Sabina 2 Nero 3 Statilia Messalina Claudia Augusta...
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  • Empire, when two brothers served as consuls in AD 9. The Roman empress Poppaea Sabina was a descendant of this family, but few others achieved any prominence...
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    Claudia Augusta (category Poppaea Sabina)
    Emperor Nero. She was born to the emperor's second wife, the Empress Poppaea Sabina. Claudia and her mother were honored with the title of Augusta by Nero...
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    Otho (category Poppaea Sabina)
    governorship of the remote province of Lusitania in 58 following his wife Poppaea Sabina's affair with Nero. After a period of moderate rule in the province,...
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    Vibia Sabina (83–136/137) was a Roman Empress, wife and second cousin once removed to the Roman Emperor Hadrian. She was the daughter of Matidia (niece...
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    desired for herself, and because he was the lover of her hated rival Poppaea Sabina the Elder, with whom she was engaged in a fierce rivalry over the affections...
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    Poppaea is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae containing the sole species Poppaea sabina, known from East Africa. The moth's namesake was most likely...
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    Rubellius Plautus. In addition, she revealed Nero's relationship with Poppaea Sabina. The circumstances that surround Agrippina's death are uncertain due...
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  • Syria Poppaea Sabina (30–65), wife of the emperor Nero Vibia Sabina (83–136/137), wife of the emperor Hadrian, posthumously deified as diva Sabina Saint...
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    Quo Vadis (1951 film) (category Cultural depictions of Poppaea Sabina)
    Genn as Petronius Peter Ustinov as Emperor Nero Patricia Laffan as Poppaea Sabina Finlay Currie as Saint Peter Abraham Sofaer as Paul Marina Berti as...
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    became Nero's mistress. After the death of the emperor's second wife Poppaea Sabina, Vestinus was forced to commit suicide in 66, so Nero could marry Statilia...
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  • I, Claudius (TV series) (category Cultural depictions of Poppaea Sabina)
    I, Claudius (stylised as I·CLAVDIVS) is a 1976 BBC Television adaptation of Robert Graves' 1934 novel I, Claudius and its 1935 sequel Claudius the God...
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    Chess (concert) Florence Vassy Royal Albert Hall May 12–13, 2008 Nero Poppaea Sabina Powerhouse Theater July 11–13, 2008 2014 If/Then Elizabeth Vaughan Richard...
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    the Younger Claudia Octavia Poppaea Sabina Statilia Messalina Galeria Fundana Domitia Longina Pompeia Plotina Vibia Sabina Faustina the Elder Faustina...
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    Elizabeth David TV film Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire Poppaea Sabina Episode: "Nero" 2008 Midnight Man Alice Ross Main cast, miniseries 2011...
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    Oplontis (category Poppaea Sabina)
    Roman villas, the best-known of which is Villa A, the so-called Villa Poppaea. Like the nearby towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, Oplontis was buried...
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  • I, Claudius (category Cultural depictions of Poppaea Sabina)
    I, Claudius is a historical novel by English writer Robert Graves, published in 1934. Written in the form of an autobiography of the Roman Emperor Claudius...
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  • Emperor Nero named Tavius (Michael Peake) as handmaiden to Nero's wife Poppaea Sabina (Kay Patrick), whilst Ian is confined to a galley on the Mediterranean...
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    Nero divorced and exiled his wife Claudia Octavia and married another (Poppaea Sabina). The play also deals with the irascibility of Nero and his inability...
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    (162–169), died in childhood; Hadrianus, died in infancy; Vibia Aurelia Sabina (170 – died before 217), married Lucius Antistius Burrus, no issue. Levick...
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    burned a year's worth of the city's supply at the funeral for his wife Poppaea Sabina in AD 65. Through the Middle Ages, the source of cinnamon remained a...
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    Quo Vadis (novel) (category Cultural depictions of Poppaea Sabina)
    with more kindness, and rejects the advances of the depraved empress Poppaea Sabina. When Chilo brings him information of Lygia's new hiding place and advises...
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    the Younger Claudia Octavia Poppaea Sabina Statilia Messalina Galeria Fundana Domitia Longina Pompeia Plotina Vibia Sabina Faustina the Elder Faustina...
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  • Titus Ollius (category Poppaea Sabina)
    Ollius (died AD 31) was a prominent Roman citizen and the father of Poppaea Sabina, the Empress consort of the Roman Empire. His origins lay in Cupra Maritima...
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