A History of Rome from 753 B.C. to A.D. 410Methueni, 1963 - 456 pagine |
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Pagina 293
... Nero himself was a youth of only seventeen years of age with a strong taste for rollicking horseplay . His old tutor's influence seems to have had but superficial effects ; for , truth to tell , Seneca was something of a fraud . He ...
... Nero himself was a youth of only seventeen years of age with a strong taste for rollicking horseplay . His old tutor's influence seems to have had but superficial effects ; for , truth to tell , Seneca was something of a fraud . He ...
Pagina 296
... Nero enjoyed with the masses by reason of his lavish expenditure on public entertainments was soon to be rudely shaken by a terrible catastrophe . In 64 a great fire raged through the city . Some shops in the neighbourhood of the Great ...
... Nero enjoyed with the masses by reason of his lavish expenditure on public entertainments was soon to be rudely shaken by a terrible catastrophe . In 64 a great fire raged through the city . Some shops in the neighbourhood of the Great ...
Pagina 440
... NERO ( 54-68 ) . ( i ) External events : ( a ) Under control of Seneca and Burrus ( prefect of Prae- torians ) ... Nero marries Poppaea . ( iii ) Nero's unpopularity : ( a ) Great Fire ( 64 ) : persecution of Christians . ( b ) ...
... NERO ( 54-68 ) . ( i ) External events : ( a ) Under control of Seneca and Burrus ( prefect of Prae- torians ) ... Nero marries Poppaea . ( iii ) Nero's unpopularity : ( a ) Great Fire ( 64 ) : persecution of Christians . ( b ) ...
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LAND AND PEOPLE | 1 |
THE ETRUSCANS AND ROME | 5 |
THE REPUBLIC AND ITS ORDEAL | 14 |
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