Emperor Nero

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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In today's episode, we're continuing our Roman emperors series with Nero. Get five emperors for the price of one as we come to the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and start the tumultuous Year of the Four Emperors! Featuring a suspicious fire, terrible jam sessions, and at least two same sex weddings.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact.
0:10.7	My name is Eli.
0:11.9	I'm Alice.
0:12.6	I'm Irene.
0:13.4	And today we're talking about the Emperor Nero.
0:15.9	Before this episode, we have every content warning because the Romans were bad people.
0:21.6	It's just the way it is.
0:23.4	There's going to be some just general misogyny and a brief mention of fairly intense domestic violence.
0:30.6	There are also mentions of trans misogyny.
0:34.1	I guess I would argue both in the ancient times and now.
0:38.5	There is a great deal of violence in this episode.
0:40.7	There are many assassinations, forced suicides, executions, and some executions specifically
0:47.3	as a form of religious persecution against Christians.
0:50.7	There is also a lot of sex in this episode.
0:53.2	The Romans had two pastimes and they weren't
0:54.9	bred in circuses. So there'll be explicit discussions of sex and this includes sex with
1:00.6	large power imbalances, so with slaves and war freedmen, and also between people with a large
1:07.9	age gap. There will be mentions of incest, rape and sex work,
1:11.8	and a large portion of this episode is going to deal with forced castration and feminization.
1:17.9	So if any of that sounds like something you don't want to listen to...
1:20.9	Okay.
1:22.5	Please feel free to go listen to any other episode that is not about Romans,
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