biography
pronunciation:
[popaya sabeena]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (?–65)
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| biography:
| Roman society beauty and voluptuary who before her marriage to the Emperor Nero (62) had been the wife of his playboy friend, the future Emperor Otho. She shared the then fashionable interest in Judaism, and has been thought by many to have encouraged Nero in his vicious attack on the Christians in the aftermath of the Fire of Rome (64). |
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