Phaon (freedman)

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Phaon was an imperial freedman and confidant of the Roman emperor Nero. [1] [2] He, with Epaphroditus, Neophytus and Sporus, took Nero to his own villa in the suburban area of Rome where the emperor would commit suicide subsequently.

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An amphora stamp was found with the inscription "Phaontis | Aug(usti) l(iberti) a rat(ionibus)", which could mean he was the a rationibus of Nero. [1]

It is unclear if he was a freedman of Nero or of Domitia Lepida Minor, whose properties and patronal rights were transferred to Nero after her execution in 54. A "L. Domitius Phaion" is mentioned in an inscription. [1]

In fiction

Phaon appears in the film Quo Vadis (1951) as an architect of Nero, played by D. A. Clarke-Smith.

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  1. 1 2 3 Weaver, Paul (2005). "Phaon, Freedman of Nero". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik . 151: 243–252. ISSN   0084-5388. JSTOR   20191993.
  2. ↑ Champlin, Edward (2005). Nero. Harvard University Press. p. 5. ISBN   978-0-674-01822-8.


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