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Nero's Advisors: Seneca, Burrus, and the Fall
In this episode of Fexingo History, Lucas and Luna step away from the marble halls and burning skies of Nero's Rome to meet the two men who actually ran the empire for the first five years of his reign: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Stoic philosopher turned speechwriter, and Sextus Afranius Burrus, the soldier who commanded the Praetorian Guard. Through their eyes, we watch Nero — the teenage emperor — navigate the treacherous currents of imperial politics, from the murder of his stepbrother Britannicus to the delicate dance with the Senate. We see how Seneca's elegant prose became the…
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