Poppaea Sabina

Poppaea Sabina in Roman Biography

Poppae'a (pop-pee'a) Sa-bi'na, a Roman empress, the wife of Nero, was more remarkable for beauty than modesty. Died in 65 A.D....

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Poppaea Sabina in Wikipedia

Poppaea Sabina (after AD 63 known as Poppaea Augusta Sabina) (30-65) and sometimes referred to as Poppaea Sabina the Younger to differentiate her from her mother of the same name, was a Roman Empress as the second wife of the Emperor Nero. Prior to this she was the wife of the future Emperor Otho. The historians of antiquity describe her as a bea...

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Sabīna, Poppaea in Harpers Dictionary

A woman of surpassing beauty, but licentious morals. She was the daughter of T. Ollius, but assumed the name of her maternal grandfather, Poppaeus Sabinus, who had been consul A.D. 9. She was first married to Rufius Crispinus, and afterwards to Otho, who was one of the boon companions of Nero. The latter soon became enamoured of her; and in or...

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