[89] The wedding of Peleus and Thetis was honored by the presence of all the gods with the exception of Discord who was not invited and who took revenge by throwing among the assembled gods the golden apple which was the source of so much misery. [90] Poppaea’s dream. [91] Poppaea’s first husband was Rufrius Crispinus. [92] Attempt of the nurse to explain the dream. [93] Twelve days after Nero divorced Octavia, he married Poppaea who brought a false accusation against the former wife, and Octavia was imprisoned in Campania. When the citizens murmured against such an unjust decree and Nero recalled her, they rushed tumultuously to the capital to offer sacrifice. They overthrew all the statues of Poppaea within reach and crowned Octavia’s. They surged around the palace until the emperor dispersed them with an armed force. [94] Rebellion against Nero. [95] Octavia was banished to the island of Pandataria where she was murdered by order of Nero. Her head was severed from her body and carried to the cruel Poppaea. Vows and sacrifices were offered to the gods by order of the senate. [96] Nero. [97] Livilla, the wife of the younger Drusus son of the emperor Tiberius, was persuaded by her lover, Sejanus, to poison her husband. [98] Julia, daughter of Caligula and Milonia Caesaria, suffered death with her mother after the assassination of her father. [99] Messalina. [100] Now Ventotene; a small island off the coast of Campania to which political offenders were sometimes banished. [101] Iphigenia was daughter of Agamemnon who offered her up to appease the gods. She was rescued by Diana and carried off in a cloud to the land of the Tauri where it fell to her lot to offer up as victims all strangers who were shipwrecked on the coast. [102] Aulis, a harbor in Beotia where Iphigenia was offered in sacrifice. * * * * * Transcriber’s Notes: The original text is typewritten with hand corrections by the author. Some text on the certification page following the title page in the original text is handwritten, and this text is shown in italics. Character names are underlined in the original script, and these are shown in italics. Footnotes, which appear on the page where they are anchored in the original text, have been moved to the end of the text and relabeled consecutively through the document. Punctuation has been made consistent. Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original text, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected. The following changes were made: p. 3: Materneus changed to Maternus (Curiatius Maternus. There) p. 11: A footnote anchor is missing on this page in the original text. The anchor for the footnote 17 in the original text was reassigned to footnote 18, and an anchor for footnote 17 was inserted based on context. p. 11: to added (go to the)