Deal : Ancient Roman History

Nero is back. 2000 years after he was the delight of the Roman plebs, but reviled as the Beast 666 by the Christians and as a mere performer by the Roman nobility, the singing emperor has been rehabilitated thanks to a 2021 exhibition in the British Museum “Nero The Man behind the Myth” which has been debated at length in publications ranging from the Times of London, the New York Times, the New Yorker and the Wall Street Journal. The consensus view is best expressed in the title of the Forbes magazine article: “Was Nero a Hero?” Humphry Knipe serves...