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Poppaea Sabina : the life and afterlife of a Roman empress /

"We must work through layers of fantasy in order to uncover the life of Poppaea Sabina (c. 30-65 CE). As the ancient sources tell it, Poppaea pushed the young emperor Nero to murder his mother, execute his wife Octavia, marry her and make her his empress--and then, a few years later, kick her t...

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Main Author: Bernstein, Neil W., 1973- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Series:Women in antiquity.
Subjects:
Poppaea Sabina, > Empress, consort of Nero, Emperor of Rome, > -65.
Nero, > Emperor of Rome, > 37-68 > Relations with women.
Empresses > Rome > Biography.
Rome > History > Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D.
Impératrices > Rome > Biographies.
Rome > Histoire > 30 av. J.-C.-68 (Julio-Claudiens)
Ancient.
HISTORY.
Rome.
Social History.
Women.
Biography & non-fiction prose.
Biography.
Electronic books.
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