Shortly afterwards, the Second Triumvirate began to break down, causing a dangerous situation in Rome as the triumvirs went to battle with each other. Elaine Fantham belives it is likely that Nero had been married before he wed Livia, as he was already looking for a wife in 50 BC when he approached Cicero to marry his daughter Tullia.

His son of the same name was born November 16, 42 BC, at Fondi Italy. Īround the time Nero was elected praetor in 42 BC, he married his relative Livia Drusilla, whose father Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus was from the same gens. However, due to his previous alliance with the Roman dictator, Nero was allowed to be elected praetor in 42 BC. After the murder of Julius Caesar in 44 BC, when it seemed that the assassins were triumphant, he suggested that they be rewarded for their services to the state. ĭespite his service with Julius Caesar, Nero was an Optimate at heart. Julius Caesar had sent Nero to create Roman colonies in Gaul and in other provinces. Having achieved victory over the Egyptian navy, he was rewarded with a priesthood. Nero had served as a quaestor to Julius Caesar in 48 BC, commanding his fleet in the Alexandrian War. Nero had a sister called Claudia, who married the prefect Quintus Volusius. Nero was the son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and his mother was a descendant of the Claudian gens. He was a descendant of the censor Appius Claudius Caecus. Nero was a member of the republican Claudia gens of Rome. Fantasy portrait in the Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum

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