THE TEMPLE AND BIRTHPLACE OF DIVA POPPAEA

摘要

On detection of the Pisonian conspiracy, in April 65, Nero promptly despatched na tribune to order Seneca’s suicide. Hardly by coincidence, it is on this occasion nthat Tacitus has Poppaea1n make her final live appearance as vigilant member of the nemperor’s ‘intimate council of cruelties’. An officially grateful, in fact terrorized, nSenate subsequently voted that the month witnessing these cruelties henceforth be nnamed Neroneus. From the height of such glories, the fall was sudden. Only a few nmonths later the House was summoned to vote more sombre honours, the public nburial and subsequent deification of Poppaea herself.n2