Nero - Eyewitness Accounts

Nero was the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors. When Nero died many were happy.

Seneca, friend and confidant of Nero, was suspected of plotting against the emperor, and committed suicide, but with unusual difficulty.

Biography of the Emperor Nero, from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, by Suetonius.

A papyrus from Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, now in the Cairo Museum, says that Nero became emperor on the equivalent of the modern date of November 17, 54 A.D.

Section of Suetonius on the death by suicide of the Roman Emperor Nero.

The Life of Nero, by Suetonius, in Latin.

Nero features heavily in the Annales of Tacitus Books XIII, XIV, XV, and XVI.