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Nero and the Year of the Four Emperors: The Coup That Ended the Julio-Claudians
In June of 68 AD, Nero fled Rome and took his own life, leaving the empire without a clear successor. Within months, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian would each claim the purple in a brutal civil war. This episode traces the chaos from Nero's final days—when the Praetorian Guard abandoned him and the Senate declared him a public enemy—through the rise and fall of Galba, whose stinginess cost him the loyalty of the legions; Otho's desperate gambit at the Battle of Bedriacum; and Vitellius's grotesque feasts before Vespasian's eastern legions crushed him. We explore the…
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