Editing Ofonius Tigellinus (section)

== Tigellinus in later art ==
*Tigellinus appears as a character in the opera ''Neró i Acté'' (1928) by [[Juan Manén]].<ref name="Manuwald2013">{{cite book|author=Gesine Manuwald|title=Nero in Opera: Librettos as Transformations of Ancient Sources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cp5k_JpKO6QC&pg=PA236|date=28 May 2013|publisher=De Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-031751-0|pages=236–}}</ref>
*Tigellinus appears in both the 1895 [[The Sign of the Cross (play)|play]] and the 1932 film ''[[The Sign of the Cross (1932 film)|The Sign of the Cross]]''. He is also depicted as a villain in [[Henryk Sienkiewicz]]'s 1895 novel ''[[Quo Vadis (novel)|Quo Vadis]]'' and in the 6-hour 1985 mini-series ''[[A.D. (miniseries)|A.D.]]''.  He appears in the 1934 science fiction novel ''[[Triplanetary (novel)|Triplanetary]]'' by E. E. "Doc" Smith.
*In the 1951 film ''[[Quo Vadis (1951 film)|Quo Vadis]]'', based on the novel, Tigellinus (played by [[Ralph Truman]]) is (unhistorically) stabbed to death by a rebel soldier with the cry of ''A sword from Plautius!'' in the [[Circus of Nero]] when the Roman people revolt against the emperor near the end of the film.
*He is a prominent character in the latter stages of the 1985 novel ''[[The Kingdom of the Wicked]]'' by [[Anthony Burgess]].
*He is the leading character in [[John Hersey]]'s 1972 novel portraying Rome as a police state, ''The Conspiracy''.
*Tigellinus appears in [[Simon Scarrow]]'s 2011 novel ''[[Praetorian (novel)|Praetorian]]'' (taking place in 51&nbsp;AD) as an ''[[optio]]'' (junior officer) of the Praetorian Guard; at the end of the novel, he is promoted to second-in-command to Prefect [[Burrus]], and expects to succeed him after Nero ascends to the throne.