Nero: The Man Behind the Myth

by Thorsten Opper

Book Overview

One of the best known and simultaneously most notorious figures from Roman history, Nero (r. AD 54-68) is usually characterised as a tyrannical and ineffectual emperor, a ruler who proverbially 'fiddled while Rome burnt'. However, as new research demonstrates, this reputation is crudely reductive and was carefully crafted in antiquity by hostile elite authors, who envisioned a different form of rule more mindful of the demands of their own social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714122904
• ISBN13: 9780714122908
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: British Museum Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 10.3" x 11.3"