Red-Haired Roman Femme Fatale: Poppaea Sabina
Sex, scandal, and the fiery-haired woman who rewrote Roman history
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7 min readOct 20, 2023
It was 62 AD and for the first, and perhaps the only time in his life, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus — Nero for short — was happy.
He had just married his second wife, Poppaea Sabina, and theirs seemed like a great love match. For some time he even…