Nero Caesar Augustus: Emperor of Rome

by David Shotter

Propelled to power by the age of 17 by an ambitious mother, self-indulgent to the point of criminality, inadequate, paranoid and the perpetrator of heinous crimes including matricide and fratricide, and deposed and killed by 31, Nero is one of Rome's most infamous Emperors.

But has history treated him fairly? Or is the popular view of Nero as a capricious and depraved individual a travesty of the truth and a gross injustice to Rome's fifth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405824573
• ISBN13: 9781405824576
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"