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Poppæa was the only child and daughter to Titus Ollius and an elder Poppæa Sabina. She was born in Pompeii.[1] Titus Ollius was a quaestor in the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. Ollius’ friendship with notorious Imperial palace guardsman’s Lucius Aelius Sejanus ruined him, before gaining public office. Titus Ollius was from Picenum (modern Marche and Abruzzo, Italy) and he was an unknown minor character in Imperial Politics. Her mother an elder Poppaea Sabina was a distinguished woman, whom the Roman Historian Tacitus praises as a wealthy woman and a woman of distinction. Tacitus describes her as ‘the loveliest woman of her day’. In 47, she committed suicide as an innocent victim of the intrigues of the Roman Empress Valeria Messalina.

valley of the Ollius (modern Oglio)

Svetonio, Nerone cap. 35

Tacito XIII, 45

Notre su Poppea e Ollio Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth-E.A. (edd.), Oxford Classical Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 2003 | 1221.

Poppaea's father was Titus Ollius (d. 31 A.D.), a casualty of the period of Tiberius' reign dominated by Sejanus