Rome is burning : Nero and the fire that ended a dynasty /
"Nero became Emperor in A.D 54. On the evening of July 18, 64 A. D., it seems that a lamp was left unextinguished in a stall still heaped with piles of combustible material. Whether this was accidental or deliberate we cannot now determine, and normally it would not have led to anything that wo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | Turning points in ancient history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Fires in Ancient Rome
- The Great Fire
- Responsibility
- The Christians and the Great Fire
- The new Rome
- The significance of the Great Fire
- Epilogue: The Great Fire as an enduring cultural phenomenon.