Agrippina began her quest for power by persuading Claudius to bring back Seneca from exile so that he could become tutor to her own son, Nero, the boy she planned to make an emperor. Gradually ...

She persuaded Claudius to adopt Domitius - who now took the name Nero - as his son and when it seemed as if Britannicus would be favoured, she had Claudius poisoned and Nero became emperor.

Nero only became emperor because his power-hungry mother, Agrippina the Younger, manoeuvred him into place to take the role. She wed her uncle, the emperor Claudius, then arranged for Nero to ...

With the passing of Claudius, Nero became emperor, and Rome would never again return to its days of being a republic ruled by the senate. People’s interest in the Roman Empire never ends.