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Nero's Last Recital: The Death of an Artist-Emperor
In June of 68 CE, Nero fled Rome with a few loyal servants, hid in a villa outside the city, and is said to have rehearsed his own death. That moment—half stagecraft, half panic—has defined him for two thousand years. But what really happened in those final hours? In this episode, Lucas and Luna untangle the contradictory accounts of Suetonius, Tacitus, and Cassius Dio to piece together the end of Nero's reign. They follow his frantic last journey from the Palatine to the Servilian Gardens, the Praetorian Guard's betrayal, the farcical Senate vote that declared him a public enemy…
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