Otho

Names:

• 28 April 32: Marcus Salvius Otho
• 15 January 69: Imperator Marcus Otho Caesar Augustus
• 16 April 69: suicide

Successor of: Galba

Relatives

• father: Lucius Salvius Otho
• mother: Albia Terentia
• married to: Poppaea Sabina (divorced 62; she married Nero)

Early career

• 32 Born
• 57? Quaestor
• 58/59-68 Propraetor of Lusitania

Main deeds

• 

  Bribed the praetorian guard to make him emperor; the soldiers duly kill Galba; Otho seizes the vacant consulship
• Otho inherits the war that Vitellius had launched against Galba;
• the army of Vitellius defeats the soldiers of Otho near Cremona;
• Otho commits suicide (text)
• damnatio memoriae

Succeeded by: Vitellius

Links

• biography by Suetonius
• Hordeonius Flaccus
• Jewish revolt
• Ofonius Tigellinus
• Verginius Rufus
• Vitellius