Her face stopped appearing on Roman coins after 55 A.D., and she appears to have lost power in favor of Nero's top advisers, Seneca and Burrus, the commander of the Praetorian Guard who advised him on military affairs. Nero and his mother appear to have had a falling out within about two years of his becoming emperor. (Image credit: DEA / ICAS94 / Contributor via Getty Images) The furies present the dead body of Agrippina to her son Nero after he ordered for her to be killed. according to David Shotter in " Nero Caesar Augustus: Emperor of Rome" (Routledge, 2014). She "managed for him all the business of the empire … she received embassies and sent letter to various communities, governors and kings …" wrote Cassius Dio who lived 155-235 A.D. In the first two years of Nero's reign, his coins depicted him side by side with his mother.
However, his mother Agrippina remained a powerful influence.
"The emperor was a man who appealed to all classes alike - he handed 400 sesterces to every citizen, gave the Praetorians free grain, greeted soldiers by name, introduced a salary for impoverished senators, built a beautiful new market, scored military victories abroad, held the most spectacular games Rome had ever seen, and tackled predatory tax farming practices," wrote Al Bustani. And while others had promised this before, incredibly, Nero actually stuck to his words - reversing egregious laws, and restoring authority to the Senate," wrote Hareth Al Bustani, author of " Nero and the Art of Tyranny" (Independently published, 2021), in All About History. "Seneca wrote a remarkable accession speech, where Nero promised to uproot the corruption that plagued Claudius’ court and return powers to the Senate. (possibly by being poisoned with a mushroom), Nero, with the support of the Praetorian Guard and at the age of 17, became emperor. The newly adopted son would later take the hand of his stepsister, Octavia, in marriage, and become Claudius' heir apparent, the emperor choosing him over his own biological son, Britannicus (who died shortly after Nero became emperor).Īfter the death of Claudius in 54 A.D. His ambitious mother would go on to marry Claudius (who was also her uncle) in 49 A.D., and she saw to it that he adopted her son, giving him a new name that started with "Nero." His tutors included the famous philosopher Seneca, a man who would continue advising Nero into his reign, even writing the proclamation explaining why Nero killed his mother.
41 A.D., and the ascension of Emperor Claudius shortly afterward, mother and son were reunited.
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