Podcast | Classicist Mary Beard on the infamous Roman emperor Nero
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The British Museum Has Set Out to Prove in a New Show That Infamous Roman Emperor Nero Wasn't So Bad
The new exhibition "Nero: The Man Behind the Myth" is on view at the British Museum through October 24, 2021.
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'Nero: The Man Behind the Myth' at the British Museum
He is known as a cruel tyrant who played his lyre while Rome burned. That’s exactly what his enemies wanted you to think, the curators of a new exhibition argue.
Source: nytimes.com
Nero, an enigmatic tyrant
IN 2008 THE British Museum hosted a blockbuster exhibition about Hadrian, a Roman emperor whose reign (117-138AD) has never ceased to fascinate. Generations of historians have grappled with his personality and probed his interest in the high culture and mystical rites of Greece, his imperial projects stretching from northern Britain to the Nile and his passion for Antinous, a Greek youth. Marguerite Yourcenar, a French-American writer, claimed to have understood Hadrian better than she knew her own father; “Memoirs of Hadrian” (1951), a novel she wrote in the emperor’s voice, is grippin...
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BBC Radio 3 - Arts & Ideas, Novelist Tahmima Anam plus was Nero a ruthless tyrant?
Was Nero really a victim of plots? Bulgaria's hidden past. Plus a novel about startups.
Source: bbc.co.uk