Emperor Nero was a controversial figure in Roman history. According to some accounts, he started the Great Fire of Rome (64 CE) in order to clear the public space for a new city to be rebuilt according to the principles of art.[3] Nero’s ambitious project of rebuilding Rome required hu...
the most glaring being the accusation made by Nero, correctly or not, that Christians were responsible for the Great Fire of Rome in 64. It is true there were a great many disaffected Judaeans around. Groups dedicated to political violence, pretty much an ancient manifestation of terrorism ...
The powerful women surrounding emperor Nero fared even worse. Agrippina, his mother and staunch advocate, had cannily maneuvered her way to power, mostly through marriage (and possibly murder), also receiving the revered title of Augusta. But after working to set young Nero up as emperor (and...
Magic is usually assumed to have been ubiquitous and culturally significant in the early Roman Empire, something exemplified by Pliny the Elder’s claim that “there is no one who does not fear to be spell-bound by curse tablets”. 1 A variety of written
several Mystery cults were instituted in memory of him, such as inAntinoopolis, the city that Hadrian founded on the site of the accident, inKlaudiopolis, Antinoos’birthplace in Asia Minor, but also in Mantineia on theGreek mainland, presumably in order to gain privileges from the emperor....