After august i have to say that milton brewry, no advertising, whatoever, have got a whole series of imperial beers. So you can have the sedate but powerful beer, which is augustus. You can have that nasty little beer,. which is nero. And i think i know which one i wantt you've already started talking about nero. Let's narrow inn a little bit more on him. What do we learn from these representations of nero? What do we have herew i think nero is very interesting in terms of his later reception.
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of figures we deplore? In October 2021 Mary Beard, Britain’s best known classicist, came to Intelligence Squared to talk about the ideas in her new book Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern.
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