EXHIBITION PREVIEW A NUMISMATISTS’ DELIGHT
Aug 13, 2021
2 minutes
ero: the man explores the story of Rome’s fifth emperor, informed by new research that challenges the accounts which shaped his legacy. As the exhibition reveals, ‘Nero the tyrant’, was largely a fabrication created fifty years after his death by the historians Tacitus and Suetonius, and repeated for centuries by those who resented Nero’s popularity with ordinary people.
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