Rehabilitating Nero?
I’m not surprised the day has arrived, that historians are now rehabilitating – so to speak – the reputation of the diabolical monstrosities of Emperor Nero, with a fawning display at the British Museum: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/14/how-nasty-was-nero-really How bad was Nero, really? Well, it depends on whom you trust, and almost all the contemporary sources, secular and[…]