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Nero (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Roman emperor Nero is remembered by history as the vain and
immoral monster who fiddled while Rome burned. Edward Champlin
reinterprets Nero's enormities on their own terms, as the
self-conscious performances of an imperial actor with a formidable
grasp of Roman history and mythology and a canny sense of his
audience. Nero murdered his younger brother and rival to the
throne, probably at his mother's prompting. He then murdered his
mother, with whom he may have slept. He killed his pregnant wife in
a fit of rage, then castrated and married a young freedman because
he resembled her. He mounted the public stage to act a hero driven
mad or a woman giving birth, and raced a ten-horse chariot in the
Olympic games. He probably instigated the burning of Rome, for
which he then ordered the spectacular punishment of Christians,
many of whom were burned as human torches to light up his gardens
at night. Without seeking to rehabilitate the historical monster,
Champlin renders Nero more vividly intelligible by illuminating the
motives behind his theatrical gestures, and revealing the artist
who thought of himself as a heroic figure. Nero is a brilliant
reconception of a historical account that extends back to Tacitus,
Suetonius, and Cassius Dio. The effortless style and artful
construction of the book will engage any reader drawn to its
intrinsically fascinating subject.
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