Twelve Caesars with Mary Beard
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Defes Tion of Tyrannical Power
Nero has provided us with the building bricks of transgression. How do you think about a ten ajax? That's what nero is. They've become symbols of power, but idiosyncratic and vivid and larger than life symbols of power that we can use to talk about ourselves. There are also big questions about tyrannical power in these emperors being rejected by the proper gods. And nobody ever thought about it until now.
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