Poppaea Sabina - Second Marriage To Otho

Second Marriage To Otho

Poppaea then married Otho, a good friend of the new Emperor Nero, who was seven years younger than she was. Nero fell in love with Poppaea and she became Nero's mistress. According to Tacitus, Poppaea divorced Otho in 58 and focused her attentions solely on becoming empress of Rome and Nero's new wife. Otho was ordered away to be governor of Lusitania. A decade later, he became emperor briefly after Nero's death in succession to Galba. Suetonius places these events after 59.