![]() When Nero was two years old, his father died. ![]() Nero was born at Antium in AD 37, the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger, a great-granddaughter of the emperor Augustus. He was overthrown by his Senate and committed suicide aged 30, last emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Most contemporary sources describe him as tyrannical, self-indulgent and debauched. Nero seems to have been popular with his Praetorian guards, and with lower-class commoners in Rome and the provinces, but was deeply resented by the Roman aristocracy. He was adopted by the Roman emperor Claudius at the age of thirteen, and succeeded him to the throne. ![]() Nero ( / ˈ n ɪər oʊ/ NEER-oh full name: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus 15 December 37 – 9 June 68 AD) was the fifth emperor of Rome.
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