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'''Poppea''' (''Poppaea Sabina'', 30 CE – 65 CE) was the mistress and then second wife of the Emperor [[Nero]], who according to ancient sources at the center of many intrigues at the imperial court.
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==Overview==
 
Poppea came from an influential Roman family. When she was 14 years old, she married Rufrius Crispinus, a man of equestrian rank and then the leader of the Praetorian Guard.
 
Poppea then married [[Otho]], a good friend of the new Emperor [[Nero]] (and a future Emperor himself). Poppea divorced him in 58, becoming the mistress and then the wife of Nero.
 
Suetonius, Tacitus, and Cassius Dio describe her as an ambitious and ruthless woman, who convinced [[Nero]] to murder his mother Agrippina and divorce Octavia.
 
Poppea died
 
==Poppea, the Jews and the Christians==
 
[[Josephus]] calls Poppea a deeply religious woman who urged Nero to show compassion to the Jewish people. In 64, however, she supported the nomination of [[Gessius Florus]] as governor of Judea--a very harmful choice at the eve of the [[Jewish War]].
 
There is no evidence of any involvement of Poppea in the persecution of the early church.
 
==Seneca (fiction)==
 
Already in the first century, Poppea was a character in the tragedy ''Octavia'' by the [[Pseudo-Seneca]]. The "rediscovery" of the play during the Renaissance renewed interest in her as a dramatic persona in dramas and librettos.
 
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger Wikipedia]
 
 
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