Nero
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Before Nero takes the throne, Jacob Abbott introduces the seaside villas of Antium, the family into which the future emperor was born, and the uneasy relationship between Rome's Senate and its armies. This historical biography places Nero within a wider account of imperial rule, with Agrippina, Caligula and Claudius helping to explain the world that shaped his childhood and rise to power.
The narrative moves between descriptions of Roman institutions and tense scenes within the palace. In the episode involving Britannicus, private family conflict becomes a matter of public reputation, while Agrippina's distress exposes the strain beneath court ceremony. Abbott tells events in a connected, explanatory style and states in his preface that he follows ancient accounts.
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In ancient times, when the city of Rome was at the height of its power and splendor, it was the custom, as it is in fact now with the inhabitants of wealthy capitals, for the principal families to possess, in addition to their city residences, rural villas for summer retreats, which they built in picturesque situations, at a little distance from the city, sometimes in the interior of the country, and sometimes upon the sea-shore. There were many attractive places of resort of this nature in the neighborhood of Rome. Among them was Antium.
Antium was situated on the sea-coast about thirty miles south of the Tiber. A bold promontory here projects into the sea, affording from its declivities the most extended and magnificent views on every side. On the north, looking from the promontory of Antium, the eye follows the line of the coast away to the mouth of the Tiber; while, on the south, the view is terminated, at about the same distance, by the promontory of Circe, which is the second cape, or promontory, that marks the shore of Italy in going southward from Rome. Toward the interior, from Antium, there extends a broad and beautiful plain, bounded by wooded hills toward the shore, and by ranges of mountains in the distance beyond. On the southern side of the cape, and sheltered by it, was a small harbor where vessels from all the neighboring seas had been accustomed to bring in their cargoes, or to seek shelter in storms, from time immemorial. In fact, Antium, in point of antiquity, takes precedence, probably, even of Rome.
The beauty and the salubrity of Antium made it a very attractive place of summer resort for the people of Rome; and in process of time, when the city attained to an advanced stage of opulence and luxury, the Roman noblemen built villas there, choosing situations, in some instances, upon the natural terraces and esplanades of the promontory, which looked off over the sea, and in others cool and secluded retreats in the valleys, on the land. It was in one of these villas that Nero was born.
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- Author
- Jacob Abbott
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 123
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Ancient History
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