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Nero's Herculean Feat: The Isthmus of Corinth Canal
In 67 AD, Nero took a golden shovel to the Isthmus of Corinth, launching one of antiquity's most audacious engineering projects: a canal through the Peloponnese. This episode digs into Nero's obsession with Hercules, the logistics of the failed excavation, the thousands of Jewish prisoners who swung the picks, and the political theater that turned a doomed project into imperial propaganda. We explore the geography, the engineers' blunders, the symbolic weight of the undertaking, and why the canal wasn't completed until 1893. Along the way, we untangle Nero's fraught…
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