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03947aam a22004698i 4500 001 39ED834A447311EDBB956A3F21ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221005010052 008 220415s2022 nyu b 001 0beng 010 $a 2022018557 020 $a 059313320X 020 $a 9780593133200 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 082 00 $a 937/.07092 082 00 $a B $2 23/eng/20220429 100 1 $a Everitt, Anthony, $e author. 245 10 $a Nero : $b matricide, music, and murder in imperial Rome / $c Anthony Everitt and Roddy Ashworth. 246 30 $a Matricide, music, and murder in imperial Rome 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2211 264 1 $a New York : $b Random House, $c [2022] 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The New Order -- A Family at War -- The Improbable Emperor -- Young Hopeful Gentleman -- A Dish of Mushrooms -- Best of Mothers -- 'My Foolish Love' -- Free at Last! -- The Turning Point -- The Queen is Dead -- Fire! Fire! -- All the Conspirators -- The Armenian Question -- 'I dream'd that Greece could still be free' -- Downfall -- Loose Ends. 520 $a "The Roman emperor Nero has long been the very image of a bad ruler--cruel, vain, and incompetent. He committed incest with his mother, who had schemed and killed to place him on the throne, and later murdered her. He supposedly set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre as it burned. Afterward he cleared the charred ruins of the city center and, in their place, built a vast palace. Historians of his day despised him, and it's their recollections that have been passed down through the ages. But, in all of thehorror, there is a mystery. For a long time after his deposition and suicide, anonymous hands laid flowers on his grave. The monster was loved. In this nuanced biography, Anthony Everitt, the celebrated biographer of classical Greece and Rome, reveals the contradictions inherent in the reign of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus and offers a reappraisal of his life. Everitt also brings ancient Rome to life, showing the crowded streets that made the city prone to fires, political intrigues that could turn deadly in an instant, and vast building projects that continuously remade the Roman landscape. In this teeming and politically unstable world, Nero did terrible things, but the larger empire was also well managed under his rule. He presided over a diplomatictriumph with the rival Parthian empire, and Everitt teams up with investigative journalist Roddy Ashworth to tell the epic story of Rome's conquest of Britain and British queen Boudica's doomed revolt against Nero's legions. Nero was also a champion of arts and culture whose own great love was music, and he won the loyalty of the lower classes with great spectacles. In many ways he was ahead of his time, particularly in the way he looked to Greece and the eastern half of the empire as crucial to Rome's future. Nero had a vision for Rome, but, wracked by insecurity and guilt-ridden over assassinations he ordered, perhaps he never really had the stomach to rule it"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 00 $a Nero, $c Emperor of Rome, $d 37-68. 650 0 $a Emperors $z Rome $v Biography. 651 0 $a Rome $x History $y Nero, 54-68. 700 1 $a Ashworth, Roddy, $e author. 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Everitt, Anthony $t Nero. $b First edition $d New York : Random House, [2022] $z 9780593133224 $w (DLC) 2022018558 941 $a 9 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409043322.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314024527.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031138.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629015404.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230207011359.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230203020119.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230104010254.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20221208011708.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20221203011109.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=39ED834A447311EDBB956A3F21ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search