Vinician conspiracy
The Vinician conspiracy , which was directed against the Roman emperor Nero , occurred in AD 66 or 67 and is named after Annius Vinicianus .
Vinicianus was probably the son of Marcus (or Lucius) Annius Vicianus, who himself was pretender to the throne after the death of Emperor Caligula in AD 41, together with Lucius Arruntius Camillus Scribonianus organized an uprising in Dalmatia and after the failure of the uprising in 42 AD committed suicide.
Vinicianus was the son-in-law of Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo , who at that time was commander in chief of the Roman troops in the Middle East . Corbulo had appointed Vinicianus 63 to the legatus Augusti of the legio V Macedonica , which suggests that Vinicianus was not born before 37 AD. After Emperor Nero took office, rumors arose that Corbulo was planning a coup against Nero. To counter these rumors, he sent his son-in-law Annius Vinicianus to the imperial court on the pretext that Vinicianus should accompany Tiridates to Rome . He had thus de facto given his son-in-law into the hands of Nero as a hostage to document his solidarity with Nero.
Vinicianus quickly made an amazing career in Rome: in 66 he became consul suffectus without having previously been praetor .
The details of the coup attempt against Nero planned by Vinicianus 66 or 67 in Benevento are not known. It is believed that his family's situation forced him to act.
Before the attempted coup by Vinicianus, the Piso attempted uprising, which was much more dangerous for Nero, took place in Rome . Those involved in both coup attempts were brought before the judge in triple chains and sentenced to death. All of the convict's children were either poisoned or starved to death.
As a result of these coup attempts, “Nero's lust for murder was no longer a measure or goal”. In Rome a wave of arrests followed, convictions of voluntary suicide - and if the suicide was not committed voluntarily, one helped by opening the veins. After Suetonius , this paranoia, which arose as a result of the coup attempts, was followed by Nero's instruction to set Rome on fire.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cassius Dio 60.15.1
- ↑ Dio 60.15.2 and 5; see also Realencycclopadie der classical antiquity . New processing. Edited by Georg Wissowa. Vol. 1. Stuttgart: JB Metzler, 1894, Sp. 2310
- ↑ Julian Krüger, Nero. An emperor and his time . Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2012, p. 386.
- ↑ Dio 62.28.6; also Tacitus , Annals 15.28
- ↑ See Julian Krüger: Nero. An emperor and his time . Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2012, p. 386 f.
- ^ Suetonius , Nero 36.7
- ↑ Suetonius, Nero 37.1.7.
- ^ Suetonius, Nero 37 and 38