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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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Nero: Add a description of this character.
- Orestes
- Poppaea Sabina
- Suetonius
- Pliny
- Claudius
- Otho
- Agrippina
- Periander
- Octavia
- Cassius Dio
- Sol
- Baiae
- Antony
- Fabius
- Julius Caesar
- Seneca
- Troy
- Juno
- Galba
- Tiridates
- Aeneas
- Burrus
- Vitellius
- Sporus
- Romulus
- Trajan
- Ludi Maximi
- Lucan
- Tigellinus
- Baldwin
- Paul
- Turnus
- Gracchus
- Canace
- Clytemnestra
- Cluvius
- Livia
- Alcmaeon
- Corbulo
- Cleopatra
- Livy
Setting & Locations edit
- Rome
- Greece
- Italy
- Naples
- Apollo
- Alexandria
- Jupiter
- Egypt
- Republic
- Asia
- Athens
- Armenia
- Ceres
- Pompey
- Parthia
- Thebes
- Campus Martius
- Ostia
- Corinth
- Achaia
- Saturnalia
- Antium
- Phaethon
- Syria
- Caligula
- Veii
- Gaul
- Puteoli
- Paris
- Lusitania
- Jerusalem
- Campania
- Circus Maximus
- Euripides
- Statilia
- Sigillaria
Authors & Contributors edit
- Edward Champlin (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 937.07092
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Ancient › Rome
- Books › History › Europe › Ireland
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Ethnic & National › Irish
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical
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