The Great Fire of Rome
The Ancients
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Seneca and the Great Fire of Rome
After the great fire Seneca distanced himself from Nero. He wrote letters to a possibly imaginary young man called Lucilius whose name might mean little Lucius and then Lucius Demissius which was Nero's original name. There are some attempts to poison Seneca to get him out of the way because it didn't look good for Nero that people were kind of shunning him in this way. This letter he does say is inspired by a fire which he says takes place in Leon like Le Dunham which is provincial capital of Roman Gaul.
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