NERO | NERO
May.17.2012
Rome and Nero are fascinating subjects, as are the vestal virgins, women who are educated and held sacrosanct, priestesses of of the goddess Vesta who are responsible for all the legal documents in the Empire. Matching a vestal virgin with Nero, throwing in a Sibylline prophecy, and fleshing out...
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Oct.10.2011
The Roman historians Suetonius, Plutarch, and Tacitus wrote accounts of prominent people in the ancient world that were more often propaganda than objective reporting.
A present-day historian compared ancient historians to tabloid reporters and imagined historians in the distant future writing...
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Sep.20.2011
And the winner is...the Emperor Elagablus!
It says much about how the authority of Rome’s emperors had been debased and the power of the military increased that a 14-year-old boy could become ruler of the known world simply because the army proclaimed him so.
Of all emperors, including even Nero...
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