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Nero

全名Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus或Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus，原名Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus。

羅馬皇帝（54～68年在位）。因其母小阿格麗品娜與皇帝結婚而成爲克勞狄的養子，並在克勞狄遭阿格麗品娜毒殺後登上皇位。在謀殺其母和脫離顧問前，由其教師西尼加和阿格麗品娜攝政。藉着敬重元老院和給予獨立的帝國行政權，使他在東方受到歡迎，但布狄卡在不列顛的叛變（61）、失業情況和他的輕浮驕奢引發不滿。64年的那場大火，可能是受他指使而引發的，燒燬了大部分的羅馬，尼祿因此視基督徒爲替罪羊而加以迫害，並建造奢華的金色宮殿。隨着聲望下跌，他下令處死妻子屋大維亞和她的接替者波皮厄，下令西尼加自殺，並處決批評他的元老們。在高盧和西班牙的叛變是由加爾巴所領導，並受到其軍隊擁立爲皇帝。尼祿曾近瘋狂地對厭惡他的臣民公開表演里拉琴和戲劇演出。受到元老院的譴責，他在處決前選擇自我了斷。

37～68年

Nero

us Domitius AhenobarbusRoman emperor (54-68). He became Claudius' adoptive son when the emperor married Nero's mother, Agrippina the Younger, and took the throne after she had Claudius poisoned. He was guided by his tutor, Seneca, and by Agrippina until he murdered her and broke free of his advisers. By respecting the Senate and leaving imperial administration alone, he became popular in the east, but Boudicca's revolt in Britain (61), unemployment, and contempt for his frivolousness and excesses caused dissatisfaction. In 64 a fire, possibly lit at his orders, destroyed much of Rome; he persecuted the Christians as scapegoats and proceeded to build a garish palace, the Domus Aurea. With his reign in decline, he murdered his wife, Octavia, as well as her successor, Poppaea, ordered Seneca to kill himself, and executed senators who criticized him. Revolts in Gaul and Spain were led by Galba, who was declared emperor by his army. Nero came to be regarded as mad, giving public lyre and theatrical performances to the disgust of his subjects. Condemned by the Senate, he chose suicide over execution.