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Nero s name6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Ancient historians often sought favor with a new emperor by slandering old ones. To sort it out, I spoke with two historians: Clifford Ando, a professor of classics and author of Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, and Anthony Barrett, a professor of classics and author of Lives of the Caesars.īoth cautioned that the most outrageous stories about Rome's emperors should be taken with a grain of salt. ![]() The weird fixations of Caligula and Nero made them household names.īut these stories have always raised a difficult question: If these emperors were really so deranged, how did they become leaders of one of the greatest empires the world has ever known? Some of the most famous Roman emperors were perverted, megalomaniacal, or just plain crazy.
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