![]() Public suppers were limited to the Sportulae 1 and victualling-houses restrained from selling any dressed victuals, except pulse and herbs, whereas before they sold all kinds of meat. Many severe regulations and new orders were made in his time. He likewise designed to extend the city walls as far as Ostia, and bring the sea from thence by a canal into the old city. Nero was exiled to the island of Ponza where at some time before October 31 he was either induced to commit suicide or else starved to death.He devised a new style of building in the city, ordering piazzas to be erected before all houses both in the streets and detached, to give facilities from their terraces, in case of fire, for preventing it from spreading and these he built at his own expense. However, he was accused of treason along with his mother in 29. Nero was the oldest adoptive grandson of Tiberius, and was seen as the emperor's most obvious successor. But he too predeceased the Emperor on September 14, 23. He was replaced as heir by Drusus, his father-in-law. His father Germanicus was heir apparent to his own adoptive father Emperor Tiberius, but Germanicus predeceased the Emperor in 19. Though earlier he was betrothed to the daughter of Creticus Silanus, one-time governor of Syria. In 20, he married Julia (daughter of Drusus the Younger), daughter of Livilla and Drusus "Castor" (Tiberius' only son by Vipsania Agrippina). ![]() Nero's siblings included four brothers (Tiberius and Gaius Julius, who died young Drusus Caesar and the future Emperor Caligula) and three sisters (Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla, and Julia Livilla). ![]() His maternal grandparents were Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder, daughter of Augustus. His paternal grandparents were Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor, daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor. Nero was born around AD 6, to Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder. 6-31) was a close relative of the Roman emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. (son_of_Germanicus) Nero Julius Caesar Germanicus -son of Germanicus ![]()
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