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Description edit
Acclaimed author Stephen Dando-Collins sifts facts from myths of the great calamity that beset Rome in 64 A.D. and uncovers the truth behind the legend that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. In A.D. 64, on the night of July 19, a fire began beneath the stands of Rome's great stadium, the... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Nero: Add a description of this character.
- Seneca
- Paulina
- Thrasea
- Gaius Piso
- Rufus
- Poppaea
- Claudius
- Joseph
- Lucan
- Tiridates
- Galba
- Otho
- Julius Caesar
- Proculus
- Peter
- Burrus
- Vestinus
- Silanus
- Vitellius
- Dio
- Sejanus
- Milichus
- Sabinus
- Scaevinus
- Corbulo
- Tigellinus
- Antonia
- Octavia
- Crispinus
- Mela
- Lateranus
- Alexander
- Soranus
- Mark Antony
- Julian
- Sosianus
- Anicetus
- Tiberius
- Vetus
- Epicharis
- Natalis
- Germanicus
- Boudicca
- Pliny
- Agrippina
- Clemens
Setting & Locations edit
- Rome
- Plautus
- Italy
- Jerusalem
- Greece
- Antium
- Egypt
- Judea
- Britain
- Asia
- Syria
- Armenia
- Gaul
- Neapolis
- Spain
- Achaia
- Capitoline Mount
- Beneventum
- Alexandria
- Circus Maximus
- Ostia
- Pollutia
- Campania
- Piso Plot
- Pompey
- Niger
- Puteoli
- Ceres
- Caesarea
- Galilee
- Parthia
- Basilica Aemilia
- Circus Flaminius
- Europe
- Sextia
- Sardinia
First Sentence edit
Silence.
Table of Contents edit
I The January Oath
II The Rival Prefects
III The Poets
IV The Former Chief Secretary
V The Flame
VI The Water Commissioner
VII The Singing Emperor
VIII The Gladiatorial Contest
IX The Jews and the Christians
X The Lake Banquet
XI The Charioteer
XII The Fire
XIII The Blame
XIV The Conspiracy
XV The Unraveling
XVI The Suicide of Seneca
XVII The Purge
XVIII The New Stage
XIX The Informers
XX The Crowning of a King
XXI The Trial of Thrasea and Soranus
XXII The New Alexander
XXIII The Apostles and the Jewish Revolt
XXIV The Fall of Nero
XXV The Final Curtain
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 937
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