His dream was the stage: 3/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by Anthony Everitt (Author), Roddy Ashworth (Author)
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🗓️ 17 July 2023
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His dream was the stage: 3/8:: Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by Anthony Everitt (Author), Roddy Ashworth (Author)
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There are many infamous stories about the Roman emperor Nero: He set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre as it burned. Cruel, vain, and incompetent, he then cleared the charred ruins and built a vast palace. He committed incest with his mother, who had schemed and killed to place him on the throne, and later murdered her. Nero has long been the very image of a bad ruler, a legacy left behind by the historians of his day, who despised him.
But there is a mystery. For a long time after his death, anonymous hands laid flowers on his grave. The monster was loved. In this nuanced biography, Anthony Everitt, the celebrated biographer of classical Greece and Rome, and investigative journalist Roddy Ashworth reveal the contradictions inherent in Nero and offer a reappraisal of his life. Contrary to popular memory, the empire was well managed during his reign. He presided over diplomatic triumphs and Rome’s epic conquest of Britain and British queen Boudica’s doomed revolt against Nero’s legions. He was also a champion of arts and culture who loved music, and he won the loyalty of the lower classes with fantastic spectacles. He did not set fire to Rome.
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| 0:44.4 | This is CBS I On The World. I'm John Batcha with Anthony Everett and Rady Ashworth |
| 0:50.2 | the authors of the new book Neuro-Matcheside Music and Murder in Imperial |
| 0:54.1 | Rome. We're spending time with Agropina, Neuro's mother because that well |
| 0:59.9 | modern psychology says that's everything. However, at the same time Agropina |
| 1:04.1 | deserves attention because not only do we know that she's the daughter of |
| 1:10.0 | three of the very famous and celebrated Germanicus. The daughter of Agropina |
| 1:17.7 | Germanicus is wife. She is the granddaughter of well she descends from the Julian |
| 1:25.6 | Claudian dynasties. They come together here at this time in the 30s and 40s. But |
| 1:32.6 | she also has ambition to be princes or near two princes to rule through the |
| 1:37.6 | princes whose son but in order to do that with Anna Barras her husband gone |
| 1:43.7 | from left the field is dead. She needs to marry Claudius the new emperor who |
| 1:49.1 | rises we believe Anthony again this is a mystery to me. Did Claudius know that |
| 1:55.1 | Caligula was going to be assassinated was he part of the party? I think it's quite |
| 1:59.6 | possible that he didn't know his old plot. We've just spotted but if so it was |
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