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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.
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.
Sep 17, 2021 · Epaphroditus was a veteran, a battle tested soldier, who gambled his life for the sake of the gospel. Philippians 2:25-30 ; 4:18.
Epaphroditus: name of two Roman patrons of the literary arts, a courtier and a grammarian. Both were born between 20 and 25 and died in c.96. They are mentioned as sponsors of the careers of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus and the Greek philosopher Epictetus.
3 Epaphroditus was the master of requests and freedman of Nero, and the master of Epictetus. He assisted Nero in killing himself, for which he was condemned to death by Domitian Suetonius in Vita Neronis, 49; Domit. c. 14.-C. 4 Thraseas Pastus, a Stoic philosopher put to death by Nero.
Jan 4, 2022 · Epaphroditus is the one who delivered the original manuscript of Philippians to its original recipients, the church in Philippi. Paul was under house arrest in Rome, and the church in Philippi desired to send Paul what we might call a “care package.”
May 21, 2015 · Epaphroditus, himself a freedman of Nero, sent Epictetus to study with the most influential Stoic teacher and theoretician of the time, Gaius Musonius Rufus, and Epictetus was freed by his master, or on the death of his master, sometime after Nero’s death in 68.
