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Nero and the Conspiracy of the Four Seasons
In 66 AD, as Nero toured Greece, a shadowy plot emerged from the very heart of his inner circle. Historians call it the 'Conspiracy of the Four Seasons' — not a single event, but a web of discontents involving senators, equestrians, and even a Stoic philosopher. Lucas and Luna explore the conspiracy's ringleaders: the poet Lucan, the senator Afranius Quintianus, and the philosopher Musonius Rufus, who was exiled for his ties to the Pisonian Conspirators. They examine the plot's failure, the brutal reprisals, and the chilling 'Neronian Terror' that followed. Was…
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