In April 2011 the Special Superintendency for the Archaeological Heritage of Rome opened an exhibit at the Palatine and other locations nearby devoted to the life and works of Nero. On display for ...

Rome was appalled. Matricide – the murder of one’s own mother – was among the worst possible crimes. Tolerance of Nero’s depravity ebbed away and Rome faced a series of bad omens.

We sing about the abandoned twins Romulus and Remus being saved and suckled by a she-wolf; then the founding of Rome; Julius Caesar and Claudius invading Britain; Nero’s burning of Rome ...