I'm John Batch.

Niro is gone.

Matheside music and murder in Imperial Rome.

It is now 69 AD and Rome has another fate for emperors and eventually the Flavians will take charge

for the balance of this century. But we are concerned with who tells us about Nero.

Anthony Everett and Roddy Ashworth are here.

Anthony, we've talked about Tacitus who's a scold and disdainful of much of Nero's life.

Swatonius, I don't have a way of picturing his opinion or Dio.

Did they all have different points of view and did they read each other?

But yes, they probably did. The greatest of all those that you mentioned is Tacos. He's a great literary artist.

We have a great deal of his work surviving, which is good.

While he, why he just, excuse me,

Barthesus is While Tacitus is exaggerates, he never knowingly tells a lie and so you can depend on him even if the interpretation that he gives

on a given incident or event is not one that you would share.

Fraternus is a gossip and just piles lots of interesting little anecdotes in no particular

order.

Diocassius is a senator from December later and he's as good as his sources.

Sometimes he's good, sometimes he's bad.

Yes, he's the second, he's the second and third, it's from the second into the third century.

So he reads, he can read the original Tacitus and the original Swetonias?

Yes, yes, yes, yes, he can, but the greatest of the law is without a doubt that's a test.

This is the story I want to go to my grave with rather than so I don't have some diagnosis.

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