The Book of Ancient Bastards by Thornton Brian

Author:Thornton, Brian [Thornton, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 978-1-4405-2488-2
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2011-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

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MARCUS SALVIUS OTHO

The Emperor as Scheming Pretty Boy

( A.D. 32–69)

When civil war in the balance lay, and mincing Otho might have won the day, bloodshed too costly did he spare the land, and pierced his heart with an unfaltering hand.

—Martial, Epigrams

One of Nero’s closest friends and confidants during the early years of his reign was a fashion-plate dilettante named Marcus Salvius Otho (the two men were rumored to have been lovers). Vain, shallow, and frivolous, Otho only survived Nero’s fall because he and the emperor argued over a woman (?!?). By A.D. 68, Otho found himself posted as governor of a frontier province in what is now Portugal, far from Rome and from the bloodbath that followed Nero’s death.

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