...This chapter moves from Nero’s relationships with his family to that with his people in the context of the revolts of 62 c.e. Though modern historians often treat these riots as insignificant, the Octavia uses this rare example of popular revolution under Nero to suggest...

... and ancestral Agrippina the Elder memory sanctions Julia mother of Rubellius Plautus Livilla Messalina Agrippina the Younger character Agrippina the Younger historical figure omens Tristia Ovid Ovid intratextuality Lucretius De rerum natura Lucretius Georgics Vergil 62 c.e. chorus civil war...