Nero Caesar Augustus : Emperor of RomePropelled to power by the age of 17 by an ambitious mother, self-indulgent to the point of criminality, inadequate, paranoid and the perpetrator of heinous crimes including
Nero has become one of the most infamous men who ever lived. During his rule, he murdered his own mother, Agrippina the Younger; his first wife, Octavia; and allegedly, his second wife, Poppaea Sabina. In addition, ancient writers claim that he started the great fire of Rome in ...
Yet Emperor of Rome is not your typical chronological account of Roman rulers, one emperor after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Instead, Beard asks different, often larger and more probing questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the ...
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Nero grew up in a tumultuous period marked by imperial intrigue. His mother, Agrippina, was exiled by her brother,Emperor Caligula. However, the unexpected accession ofClaudius, Agrippina's uncle, allowed for the return of exiled members of the Julio-Claudian family. ...
To understand the general strategy under Nero it would be useful to first know the particulars. Had Nero drawn up and followed a master plan? Or was Nero's Rome the result of a chain of many individual decisions? This chapter attempts to address these questions by examining the construction ...
It burned down in the great fire of Rome in 64 AD, and afterwards, Nero ordered another, bigger and even more sumptuous palace built -- the Domus Aurea (Golden Palace). "The Domus Transitoria, Nero's first royal palace on the Palatine, has opened to the public," the Coliseum Archeologi...
The Emperor of China ruled over a vast territory for many centuries. 中国皇帝统治着广阔的领土长达数世纪之久。 Emperor Meiji of Japan led the country through a period of modernization. 日本明治天皇领导国家经历了现代化时期。 Nero was a famous and controversial Emperor of Rome. 尼禄是罗马一...
Villedieu told journalists in Rome yesterday that the room on the ancient Palatine Hill was supported by a pillar with a diameter of 4 meters. She said only the foundation of the room was recovered during the four-month excavation. The Golden Palace, also known by its Latin name Domus Aurea...
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