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'''Poppea''' (''Poppaea Sabina'', 30 CE – 65 CE) was the mistress and then second wife of the Emperor [[Nero]]. According to ancient sources, she was at the center of many intrigues at the imperial court.
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==Overview==
 
Poppea came from a wealthy and politically influential Roman family. When she was 14 years old, she was married first to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufrius_Crispinus Rufrius Crispinus], a man of equestrian rank and then the leader of the Praetorian Guard.
 
Poppea's next husband was [[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 urged [[Nero]] to murder his mother Agrippina and divorce Octavia.
 
It is said that Poppea died in 65 as a consequence of a miscarriage after Nero kicked her in a fit of rage, but the exact circumstances of her death are obscure.
 
==Poppea, the Jews and the Christians==
 
[[Josephus]] calls Poppea a deeply "religious woman" (maybe a "God-fearer") who urged Nero to show compassion to the Jewish people. In 64, however, she supported the nomination of [[Gessius Florus]] as governor of Judea, which proved to be a very harmful choice at the eve of the [[Jewish War]].
 
There is no evidence of any direct 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==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppaea_Sabina Wikipedia]
 
 
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