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As part of the events marking Nero’s assumption of the  toga virilis  in 51 CE, he along with Britannicus led the circus procession ( pompa circensis ) in advance of games in the Circus Maximus. The aim of this paper is to reconstruct this  pompa circensis , both in its processional elements and route through the city. The presence of potential successors along with images of the deified and honored dead of the imperial family shows how this ceremony evolved and expanded in the Principate to become a dynastic ceremony. The route of the newly modified  pompa circensis , marked by monuments built by or dedicated to members of the imperial family, also had become increasingly dynastic. An essential element of the  pompa circensis  was the participation of the senate and equestrian order as well as the urban plebs, an act of performed consensus fully realized when the procession ended in the Circus Maximus. This circus procession, as reconstructed here, has further implications for the larger question of the imperial succession under Claudius.

Nero and Britannicus in the pompa circensis : The Circus Procession as Dynastic Ceremony in the Court of Claudius