M. Annaeus Lucanus

Role: poet · First appears: Horace

Life events

• Nero recalled M. Annaeus Lucanus from Athens, admitted him among his friends, and granted him the quaestorship.(Horace · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Nero
  • “In his early youth, after being long informed of the sort of life his father led in the country, in consequence of an unhappy marriage, he was recalled from Athens by Nero, who admitted him into the circle of his friends, and even gave him the honour of the quaestorship;”
• M. Annaeus Lucanus lost Nero's favor and began publicly attacking the emperor.(Horace)
  • With: Nero
  • “but he did not long remain in favour. Smarting at this, and having publicly stated that Nero had withdrawn, all of a sudden, without communicating with the senate, and without any other motive than his own recreation, after this he did not cease to assail the emperor both with foul words and with acts which are still notorious.”
• M. Annaeus Lucanus led Piso's conspiracy, confessed, and died by having his veins opened.(Horace)
  • With: Piso Nero
  • “At length, he became nearly the most active leader in Piso’s conspiracy ; and while he dwelt without reserve in many quarters on the glory of those who dipped their hands in the blood of tyrants, he launched out into open threats of violence, and carried them so far as to boast that he would cast the emperor’s head at the feet of his neighbours. When, however, the plot was discovered, he did not exhibit any firmness of mind. A confession was wrung from him without much difficulty; and, humbling himself to the most abject entreaties, he even named his innocent mother as one of the conspirators; hoping that his want of natural affection would give him favour in the eyes of a parricidal prince. Having obtained permission to choose his mode of death, he wrote notes to his father, containing corrections of some of his verses, and, having made a full meal, allowed a physician to open the veins in his arm.”

Horace

• friends with Nero “he was recalled from Athens by Nero, who admitted him into the circle of his friends, and even gave him the honour of the quaestorship;”
• employer: Nero “he was recalled from Athens by Nero, who admitted him into the circle of his friends, and even gave him the honour of the quaestorship;”
• enemies with Nero “after this he did not cease to assail the emperor both with foul words and with acts which are still notorious.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.