65 ⟶ Nero's Reprisals Following Stage Performance

After a stage performance in which he appears and shocks the...
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👨‍🏫 Seneca Appointed Tutor to Young Nero

Seneca the Younger becomes Nero's tutor.⟶
Seneca Appointed Tutor to Young Nero (49)
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👑 Nero's Tyrannical Rule Begins After Loss of Advisors

After the death of Burrus and the disgrace of Seneca, Nero is free from their influence and becomes a megalomaniacal artist fascinated by Hellenism and the Orient. Tigellinus becomes Nero's counselor. His rule is highly abusive.⟶
Nero's Tyrannical Rule Begins After Loss of Advisors (62)
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🎭 Nero's Reprisals Following Stage Performance

After a stage performance in which he appears and shocks the senatorial class considerably, Nero engages in a series of reprisals against Seneca the Younger and Tigellinus, pro-republican senators, and anyone else he distrusts.⟶
Nero's Reprisals Following Stage Performance (65)
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🏛️ Death of Seneca the Younger

Seneca, Roman statesman and tutor of Nero (b. AD 1)⟶
Death of Seneca the Younger (69)
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🔪 Domitian's Senatorial Purge

Domitian executes senators out of paranoiac fears that they are plotting to kill him.⟶
Roman EmpireDomitianEmperorTyrannyPolitical PurgeAncient romeImperial PowerPersecution
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