Nero Revisited: How much of the history is BS?

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Nero is now synonymous with tyrannical evil. Just how much of a monster was Nero? Was he insane?

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Host: Iain Russell
Video Editor: Alicia Gómez
Script Editor: Jennifer Connerly
Images: Anagata Zhulitova

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Edward Champlin, Nero, The Man Behind the Myth
Edward Champlin, Nero Reconsidered
William B. Gwyn, Cruel Nero: The Concept of the Tyrant and the Image of Nero in Western Political Thought
Miriam T. Griffin, Nero: The End of a Dynasty
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero (2017)
Britannica - Nero
Oxford Classical Dictionary - Nero, Roman Emperor
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, The Twelve Caesars
Lucius Cassius Dio, Epitome of Book 62

Film footage from: Quo Vadis (1951) Mervyn Leroy
Ben-Hur (1959) William Wyler
Altair4 Multimedia's excellent 3D reconstruction of Nero's Domus Aurea:    • Domus Aurea Outside  

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00:00 - 0:26 Complex Picture
0:26 - 0:49 Tools for analysis
0:49 - 2:02 Forging of a Tyrant
2:03 - 4:50 Murder of Britannicus
4:51 - 10:18 Murder of Agrippina
10:19 - 11:30 Murder of Poppaea Sabina?
11:30 - 12:08 Murder of Claudia Octavia
12:09 - 13:19 - Mourning & Grief
13:29 - 13:51: Charges for the Antichrist
13:51 - 16:13 Plausible scapegoats
16:14 - 16:53 Fire for fire
16:54 - 18:51 Sacred lightshow
18:52 - 20:00 Cluster myth
20:01 - 20:30 Case for the prosecution
20:31 - 20:58 Myth-busting Nero
20:59 - 22:14 Fire and song?
22:14 - 22:41 Arsonist?
22:42 - 22:47 Defense
22:48 - 25:50 Relief & Rebuilding
25:50 - 26:48 For the critics
26:49 - 28:39 Domus Awkwardus
28:39 - 28:52 More debunking
28:53 - 30:05 Nero’s colossus
30:05 - 31:00 Mini Empire
31:00 - 32:14 Nerotopia
32:14 - 37:09 Final Thoughts

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