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The history of Nero's reign is problematic in that no historical sources survived that were contemporary with Nero. These first histories, while they still existed, were described as biased and fantastical, either overly critical or praising of Nero. [135] The original sources were also said to contradict on a number of events. [136]
In 1969 was published posthumously Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-fifth Street: The Life and Times of America's Largest Private Detective, a fictional biography of Rex Stout's detective character Nero Wolfe; in this book, Baring-Gould popularised the theory that Wolfe was the son of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler.
Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) was a great-great-grandson of Augustus and Livia through his mother, Agrippina the Younger. The younger Agrippina was a daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, as well as Caligula's sister. Through his mother, Nero was related by blood to the Julian and Claudian branches of the Imperial ...
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[5] Seventy "top art curators and scholars" sent an open letter to the Newark Museum of Art stating that the Arch of Nero "is an important and urgent address of America’s republicanism. It speaks to the founding ideal of the American nation, refers to America’s failure to live up to its own ideals, and is a clarion call for America to be ...
I, Claudius: Nero is depicted prior to the death of his predecessor, Emperor Claudius; Gyles, Mary Francis. 1947. "Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned." The Classical Journal: explores the history behind the legend of Nero playing the fiddle as Rome burned. Wishart, David. 1996. Nero: Nero's reign seen through the eyes of Titus Petronius. Massie ...
The return of Nero may have inspired the author of the Book of Revelation when he wrote about the eschatological opponent called the Beast, which is mortally wounded and then miraculously heals. [7] The number of the Beast , 666 or 616, depending on the manuscript, has been identified by some as the numerical value of the letters in Nero's name ...