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1st century AD Roman imperial freedman to Emperor Nero From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phaon was an imperial freedman and confidant of the Roman emperor Nero.[1][2] He, with Epaphroditus, Neophytus and Sporus, took Nero to his own villa in the suburban area of Rome where the emperor would commit suicide subsequently.
An amphorae stamp was found with the inscription "Phaontis | Aug(usti) l(iberti) a rat(ionibus)", which could mean he was the rationibus of Nero.[1]
It is unclear if he was a freedman of Nero or of Domitia Lepida Minor, whose properties and patronal rights were transferred to Nero after her execution in 54. A "L. Domitius Phaion" is mentioned in an inscription.[1]
Phaon appears in the film Quo Vadis (1951) as an architect of Nero, played by D. A. Clarke-Smith.
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