A vivid peahen fresco emerges inside the VillaPoppaea near Pompeii... residence traditionally associated with Poppaea Sabina, the wife of Emperor Nero ... Villa Poppaea complex at Oplontis near Pompeii.
The masks he wore were sometimes molded on his own face, sometimes on that of his dead wife, PoppaeaSabina... This theatrical rewriting of history also shaped the story of Poppaea Sabina, the wife he was said to have killed in a fit of rage.
