Nero
In Our Time: History
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The Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780
melvourne: We can't really avoid peter eustonof. He was turned into a kind of satanic, demonic figure by the early church. The story of nero as antichrist was picked up inin hugely successful 19 century novel and used to be given to catholic children on their confirmation throughout the twentieth centurys. And i think that kind of dissemination of that kind of christian version of nero has been so strong that partly the scholarly approach now is a reaction to that.
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