Britannicus

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus (February 12th 41 - February 11th 55) was the son of the Roman Emperor Claude and his third wife Messaline. Heir to the empire to his birth, he is still a child when his/her mother is carried out. After the remarriage of his father with Agrippine the young person, it is eclipsed by the son of the latter, Néron. He survives only four months the supposed assassination of his father, and would have been also poisoned to him, on order of Néron. According to the historian Anthony Barrett, the origin of its death could be also a crisis of epilepsy.

According to Tacit, its death would have taken place during a banquet. A too hot drink would have been brought to him (tasted by a slave). To cool it, water would have been brought (not tasted and poisoned). He would have drunk some mouthfuls and would have collapsed of them. Is it possible that a Roman poison makes its office so quickly? The question remains posed even if many modern historians lean today for an epileptic fit. It was very quickly buried in the mausoleum of Auguste. The promptitude of this burial was used by Tacite as an argument “proving” that Néron wished to hide its crime. At least, should it be recognized that the death of Britannicus was more convenient for the “career” of Néron.

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