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this CBSi in the world. I'm John Batcheter with the authors Anthony Everett and Roddy Ashworth.

This is Nero Matricide, music and murder in Imperial Rome. If it appears that the bodies are falling quickly, you're correct.

But the major threat is to anyone close to the family that rules Rome and also people who are

hangers-on to that families. The succession drama is always the threat. We've seen that with Tiberius who's suffocated by

Kalegula, by Kalegula, who's murdered by the guards and perhaps as a plot of his uncle, Claudius, and then Claudius himself

is poisoned by Agrippina. We now come to the first five years of Nero as a teenager as Emperor of Rome.

Anthony, I get the impression that his escapades at night with his gang, very immature and not especially damaging to the empire.

At this point, Seneca, Burros, and one other, Friedman, are ruling the empire and are things going well Anthony? Yes things

are proceeding quite smoothly quite substantially as long as some near it doesn't interest in stuff too much in the details of government.

And for the time being, he likes having a good time.

He's a bit like Boris Johnson if you know what I mean?

enjoys frivolity and alcohol and

and Seneca endorses this, Burris endorses this, they put up with it, they don't endorse

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