Nero - Challenges/Opposition

Tacitus a.

‘Claudius’ will was not read, in case his preference of stepson to son should create a public impression of unfairness and injustice’

Tacitus b.

‘Britannicus was now of age - Britannicus, the genuine and deserving stock to succeed to his father’s power’

Tacitus c.

‘senators and knights, officers, even women, competed to join’

Tacitus d.

‘the whole of Rome was virtually put in custody’

Dio Cassius

‘what an artist perishes with me!’