"Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Æropus, a Macedonian king, made lantern…"

"The emperor who ‘fiddled while Rome burned’, Nero was the last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty that took Rome from Repu…"

"The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes Titus or Marcus Aurelius; the people is often Nero, and never M…"

"Vellem nescire literas."

"Qualis artifex pereo."

"The people love Nero. He inspires in them both affection and respect. There is a reason for this which Tacitus omits.…"

"Nero wasn’t worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: “Beware the age of seventy-three.” Plen…"

"Nero came to power when his mother poisoned her husband, the Emperor. As Emperor himself, Nero indulged his tendencie…"

"The arts of the magician are said to have been called into action by Nero upon occasion of the assassination of his m…"

"God, save us from ourselves! We carry within us the elements of hell if we but choose to make them such. Ahaz, Judas,…"