The Four Emperors

Chapter 4

NERO – NERO CLAUDIUS CAESAR DRUSUS AUGUSTUS GERMANICUS, born LUCIUS DOMITIUS AHENOBARBUS, Imperator of Rome"s legions, Pontifex Maximus, Princeps Senatus (leader of the Senate)

POPPAEA – POPPAEA SABINA, divorced from Otho, wife to Nero, d. 65 AD

STATILIA – STATILIA MESSALINA, married to Nero 66 AD

GENS FLAVIA (FLAVIUS FAMILY)

OLD SABINUS – TITUS FLAVIUS SABINUS SENIOR, Senator

VESPASIAN – TITUS FLAVIUS VESPASIANUS SENIOR, his brother, Senator, general of the war in Judea

SABINUS – TITUS FLAVIUS SABINUS JUNIOR, son of Old Sabinus, Senator

TERTIUS – TITUS FLAVIUS SABINUS TERTIUS, elder son of Sabinus

CLEMENS – TITUS FLAVIUS CLEMENS, younger son of Sabinus

TITUS – TITUS FLAVIUS VESPASIANUS JUNIOR, elder son of Vespasian, Senator

DOMITIAN – TITUS FLAVIUS DOMITIANUS, younger son of Vespasian

CERIALIS – QUINTUS PETILLIUS CERIALIS CAESIUS RUFUS, Senator, Vespasian"s son-in-law

GAUDENTIUS – QUINTUS FLAVIUS GAUDENTIUS, distant relative, an architect

FLAVIA – FLAVIA DOMITILLA, daughter of Cerialis, Vespasian"s grand-daughter

JULIA TITI – JULIA FLAVIA, daughter of Titus

CAENIS – ANTONIA CAENIS, former slave, mistress of Vespasian

PHYLLIS – former nurse of Domitian, now nurse to Julia & Flavia

NOTABLE ROMAN CITIZENS

CORBULO – GNAEUS DOMITIUS CORBULO, Senator, famed general, now in disgrace

PLAUTIUS – LUCIUS AELIUS PLAUTIUS LAMIA AELIANUS, Senator, married to Corbulo"s younger daughter

DOMITIA CORBULA – Corbulo"s elder daughter, now widowed

DOMITIA LONGINA – Corbulo"s younger daughter, wife of Plautius

VERULANA GRATILLA – friend to Corbulo"s daughters, wife of Quintus Junius Arulenus Rusticus

GALBA – SERVIUS SULPICIUS GALBA, Senator, Governor of Nearer Hispania, aging general

OTHO – MARCUS SALVIUS OTHO, Senator, Governor of Further Hispania, Nero"s former friend

VITELLIUS – AULUS VITELLIUS, Senator, pleasure-loving would-be general

SEXTILLA – widow of Lucius Vitellius, mother of Aulus and Lucius Vitellius

TIGELLINUS – OFONIUS TIGELLINUS, Knight, Praetorian Prefect, breeder of racehorses

NYMPHIDIUS – GAIUS NYMPHIDIUS SABINUS, Knight, Praetorian Prefect

MUCIANUS – GAIUS LICINIUS MUCIANUS, Senator, governor of Syria in late 67 AD

MAMERCUS – MAMERCUS CORNELIUS MARTIALUS, retired centurion, leader of Rome"s Urban guard

CAECINA – AULUS CAECINA ALIENUS, Senator, legionary legate in Hispania and Germania

VALENS – FABIUS VALENS, Senator, legionary legate in Germania

PAULINUS – GAIUS SUETONIUS PAULINUS, Senator, general who defeated Boudica

ANTONIUS – MARCUS ANTONIUS PRIMUS, exiled Senator recalled by Galba

SLAVES & NON-CITIZENS

SYMEON – SYMEON BEN JONAH, condemned leader of an outlawed Hebrew sect

SAUL – SAUL OF TARSUS, Roman citizen, Symeon"s rival, also condemned by Nero

ABIGAIL – Judean born Hebrew, Symeon"s consort, now a slave

PEREL – PETRONELLA – Symeon and Abigail"s daughter, now a slave

SETH – SETH BEN TABI, Symeon"s friend, now a slave

MARCUS – MARCUS COMINIUS, Italian-born convert to a Hebrew sect, a scribe

LINUS – MARCELLINUS JUVENTIUS HERCULANUS, Roman-born convert to a Hebrew sect

SPIROS – Greek shepherd boy

JOSEPHUS – YOSEF BEN MATITYAHU, captured Judean general-priest-historian

AN APPENDIX AT THE BACK OF THIS NOVEL LISTS THE ORDERING OF THE ROMAN LEGIONS AND THEIR LOCATIONS DURING THIS PERIOD.