Nero: the man behind the myth
Posted by Jim |
What comes to mind when you think of Nero? Probably that he was a tyrant who craved absolute power, who fiddled while Rome burned, who had his wife and mother killed, and who lived a life of debauchery. Quite a charge sheet! But what if this is all wrong? What if it was all invented to blacken Nero’s name and we’re still being duped by this fake news nearly two thousand years later? This is the provocative question posed by the British Museum show, Nero: the man behind the myth.