Nero

1. Nero By: Sadie Graham

2. Nero’s Family Tree • Nero’s birth father is Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus. • Nero’s Birth mother is, Agrippina. • Nero’s adopted father is, Claudius. • Then there is Nero. • Nero married Octavia, but then divorced her. • Nero then married, his mistress, Poppaea.

3. Nero’s birth name was; Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and was known by that name as a child. • He was the only surviving direct male descendant of the emperor Augusts. • He was blamed for burning down the Roman Empire, this was highly unlikely though. • When Nero was 2 years old, his mother was banished by Caligubi to the Pontian Islands. • His father died one year after his mother. • His Grandfather was extremely popular commander with the army. (Germanicus) Interesting Facts

4. Early Life And Childhood of Nero • Nero was born on December 15, 37 A.D. He was born in Antium Also known today, as Anzio Italy. He was known, as a child, as Domitus.

5. Death • Nero’s death, was suicide. His death was “forced” suicide people say. On June 9th 68. • His mother poisoned his father, they think and also she killed her uncle, and husband, Claudius. Then in 59 A.D. he put his mother to death. • He divorced his wife Octavia, then later on in life, she was later executed. • His Step-father died one year after his mother was put to death. • Nero poisoned Britannicus.

6. Character Traits • Nero was a very cruel man. As you can tell with the slide Death. He killed many people that you would think, he “loved.” Like his mother, his ex-wife, and probably more people. He did come from a family, of murderers.

7. Did Nero Use Or Abuse Power? • Nero defiantly abused power. He murdered people, and spent money, when ever he felt like it. He was not a very good emperor, at all, the only reason, why he is emperor, is because his mother poisoned her uncle, husband, and emperor. (there all the same person.)

8. Contributions to Rome or History of the World • Some contributions to Rome that Nero had caused, was that after Rome burned down (they are not positive if it was him that burned it down, or if it was Christians wanting Christ to rise once again sooner) he helped rebuild Rome.

9. Accomplishments and Achievements • Some of Nero’s accomplishments, were he started the trend of persecuting Christians. And when he herd that Rome was on fire (he wasn’t even in Rome when it had happened some say) He came as soon as possible to come help put it out. The Christians rebounded by coming up with the story of Nero fiddling while Rome burned • He was also an accomplished musian

10. Interesting Facts • Nero’s grandfather was an extremely famous commander with the army (Germanicus)

11. Source Pagehttp://www.roman-empire.net/emperors/nero-index.htmlWikihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeroGoogle.com/images