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Tiberius Claudius Epaphroditus or Epaphroditos ( Greek: Ἐπαφρόδιτος; born c. 20–25 – died c. 95), was a freedman and secretary of the Roman Emperor Nero. He was later executed by Domitian for failing to prevent Nero's suicide.
Jul 29, 2023 · Epictetus was probably aged around eighteen in 68 CE, when Nero killed himself in order to avoid capture by soldiers loyal to Galba and the Senate — Epaphroditus assisted him in committing...
- Donald J. Robertson
Undoubtedly the best known Epaphroditus, though perhaps not the most charming, was one of the freedman intimates of Nero.4 Towards the end of Nero's reign, he played a key role in the detection of the Pisonian conspiracy in A.D. 655 and, in the company of such unlovely characters as Phaon and Sporus, was with Nero on his last journey in 68.
When Nero was declared a public enemy by the Senate in June 68, Epaphroditus and two or three other freedmen accompanied the ruler on his escape from Rome, and when Nero realized that he should commit suicide to prevent a worse death, Epaphroditus offered a helping hand.
Epictetus obtained his freedom sometime after the death of Nero in AD 68, and he began to teach philosophy in Rome. Around AD 93, when the Roman emperor Domitian banished all philosophers from the city, Epictetus moved to Nicopolis in Epirus, Greece, where he founded a school of philosophy.
Epictetus became a slave of Epaphroditus, himself a freedman who was secretary to Nero. After being freed by his master, Epictetus studied with the Stoic Musonius Rufus, and he taught in Rome until Domitian banished the philosophers in 89 CE.
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*Nero's freedman and secretary, received military honours for helping him unmask the Pisonian conspiracy (ILS 9505; cf. Tac. Ann. 15. 55, 72; see calpurnius piso (2), c.) and accompanied him in his final flight (Suet. Ner. 49).
