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Nero The Parricide
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Author : Edward Lowell Anderson
language : en
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Release Date : 1870
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Nero The Parricide
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Author : Edward Lowell Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-09-19
Nero The Parricide written by Edward Lowell Anderson and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-19 with categories.
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Nero
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Author : Anthony Everitt
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2022-11-08
Nero written by Anthony Everitt and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-08 with History categories.
A striking, nuanced biography of Nero—the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars—and a vivid portrait of ancient Rome “Exciting and provocative . . . Nero is a pleasure to read.”—Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium The Roman emperor Nero’s name has long been a byword for cruelty, decadence, and despotism. As the stories go, he set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre as it burned. 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. But these stories, left behind by contemporary historians who hated him, are hardly the full picture, and in this nuanced biography, celebrated historian Anthony Everitt 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 his legions overcame the fiery British queen Boudica who led one of the greatest revolts Rome had ever had to face. He loved art, culture, and music, and he won the loyalty of the lower classes with fantastic spectacles. He did not set fire to Rome. In Nero, ancient Rome comes to life: the fire-prone streets, the deadly political intrigues, and the ongoing architectural projects. In this teeming, politically unstable world, Nero was vulnerable to fierce reproach from the nobility and relatives who would gladly usurp him, and he was often too ready to murder rivals. He had a vision for Rome, but, racked by insecurity, he perhaps lacked the stomach to govern it. This is the bloodstained story of one of Rome’s most notorious emperors: but in Everitt and Ashworth’s hands, Nero’s life is also a complicated, cautionary tale about the mettle required to rule.
Nero
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Author : Robert Bridges
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
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Blood Of The Caesars
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Author : Stephen Dando-Collins
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 2008-02-01
Blood Of The Caesars written by Stephen Dando-Collins and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-01 with History categories.
Could the killing of Germanicus Julius Caesar—the grandson of Mark Antony, adopted son of the emperor Tiberius, father of Caligula, and grandfather of Nero—while the Roman Empire was still in its infancy have been the root cause of the empire's collapse more than four centuries later? This brilliant investigation of Germanicus Caesar’s death and its aftermath is both a compelling history and first-class murder mystery with a plot twist Agatha Christie would envy.
Nero
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Author : United Library
language : en
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Release Date : 2024-05-23
Nero written by United Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Nero's book delves into the complex and controversial reign of one of ancient Rome's most infamous figures. Born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus in AD 37, Nero ascended to the imperial throne at a young age, inheriting a legacy of power and intrigue within the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Guided initially by influential figures such as his mother Agrippina the Younger and his tutor Seneca the Younger, Nero's reign began with promise. However, as he sought to assert his own authority, tensions within the imperial court and his ruthless actions would come to define his legacy. From his alleged role in the deaths of his mother and stepbrother to his extravagant expenditures on public entertainment and cultural endeavors, Nero's rule was marked by controversy and excess. Despite his efforts to bolster Rome's diplomacy and infrastructure, his personal indulgences and perceived tyranny alienated many within the Roman aristocracy and Senate. Through meticulous research and analysis, Nero offers readers a comprehensive examination of Nero's tumultuous reign, exploring the political intrigue, military campaigns, and cultural developments that characterized his time as emperor. This book challenges conventional perceptions of Nero, presenting a nuanced portrait of a complex ruler whose legacy continues to fascinate and provoke debate among historians and enthusiasts of ancient Rome.
The Emperor Nero
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Author : Anthony A. Barrett
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2016-07-12
The Emperor Nero written by Anthony A. Barrett and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-12 with History categories.
Nero's reign (AD 54–68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians—not to mention Nero's murder of his mother, his tyranny and extravagance, and his suicide, which plunged the empire into civil war. The Emperor Nero gathers into a single collection the major sources for Nero's life and rule, providing students of Nero and ancient Rome with the most authoritative and accessible reader there is. The Emperor Nero features clear, contemporary translations of key literary sources along with translations and explanations of representative inscriptions and coins issued under Nero. The informative introduction situates the emperor's reign within the history of the Roman Empire, and the book's concise headnotes to chapters place the source material in historical and biographical context. Passages are accompanied by detailed notes and are organized around events, such as the Great Fire of Rome, or by topic, such as Nero's relationships with his wives. Complex events like the war with Parthia—split up among several chapters in Tacitus's Annals—are brought together in continuous narratives, making this the most comprehensible and user-friendly sourcebook on Nero available. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Dying Every Day
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Author : James Romm
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2014-03-11
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From acclaimed classical historian, author of Ghost on the Throne (“Gripping . . . the narrative verve of a born writer and the erudition of a scholar” —Daniel Mendelsohn) and editor of The Landmark Arrian:The Campaign of Alexander (“Thrilling” —The New York Times Book Review), a high-stakes drama full of murder, madness, tyranny, perversion, with the sweep of history on the grand scale. At the center, the tumultuous life of Seneca, ancient Rome’s preeminent writer and philosopher, beginning with banishment in his fifties and subsequent appointment as tutor to twelve-year-old Nero, future emperor of Rome. Controlling them both, Nero’s mother, Julia Agrippina the Younger, Roman empress, great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister of the Emperor Caligula, niece and fourth wife of Emperor Claudius. James Romm seamlessly weaves together the life and written words, the moral struggles, political intrigue, and bloody vengeance that enmeshed Seneca the Younger in the twisted imperial family and the perverse, paranoid regime of Emperor Nero, despot and madman. Romm writes that Seneca watched over Nero as teacher, moral guide, and surrogate father, and, at seventeen, when Nero abruptly ascended to become emperor of Rome, Seneca, a man never avid for political power became, with Nero, the ruler of the Roman Empire. We see how Seneca was able to control his young student, how, under Seneca’s influence, Nero ruled with intelligence and moderation, banned capital punishment, reduced taxes, gave slaves the right to file complaints against their owners, pardoned prisoners arrested for sedition. But with time, as Nero grew vain and disillusioned, Seneca was unable to hold sway over the emperor, and between Nero’s mother, Agrippina—thought to have poisoned her second husband, and her third, who was her uncle (Claudius), and rumored to have entered into an incestuous relationship with her son—and Nero’s father, described by Suetonius as a murderer and cheat charged with treason, adultery, and incest, how long could the young Nero have been contained? Dying Every Day is a portrait of Seneca’s moral struggle in the midst of madness and excess. In his treatises, Seneca preached a rigorous ethical creed, exalting heroes who defied danger to do what was right or embrace a noble death. As Nero’s adviser, Seneca was presented with a more complex set of choices, as the only man capable of summoning the better aspect of Nero’s nature, yet, remaining at Nero’s side and colluding in the evil regime he created. Dying Every Day is the first book to tell the compelling and nightmarish story of the philosopher-poet who was almost a king, tied to a tyrant—as Seneca, the paragon of reason, watched his student spiral into madness and whose descent saw five family murders, the Fire of Rome, and a savage purge that destroyed the supreme minds of the Senate’s golden age.
Murder By The Book
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Author : Rex Stout
language : en
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Release Date : 1975
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Murder In E Minor
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Author : Robert Goldsborough
language : en
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Release Date : 1986
Murder In E Minor written by Robert Goldsborough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Large type books categories.