Nero
In Our Time: History
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Rome in Nero's Childhood
Shushma malik, lecturer in classics at the university of rowhampton and maria wike, professor of latin at university college london. Maria: How stale was rome in nero's childhood? Well, we're talking about the first century of the christian era, the forties a d. And from at that point, the roman empire is vast. It extends from the west in spain, up north into britain, across the rhine and the danube,. over round greece, down to syria and confronting the parthian empire. But control of that empire was highly volatile; it was run by an autocrat in
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