Eight Days that Made Rome: The Downfall of Nero
On 9th June 68 AD, Nero, Emperor of Rome, took his own life with the help of a servant, as troops came to arrest him for crimes against the state. His death ended the empire's first dynasty and ushered in an age of anarchy and civil war. With the aid of evidence from across the Roman world, including Nero's Golden House, Bettany examines his reign, his character and his relationships with his mother Agrippina, the Senate and the Roman populace. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/EDTMR.ep_.6.mp4"][/video] Bettany Hughes focuses on events leading up to and after 9th June 68AD, when Emperor Nero took his life. She examines his relationship with his mother, fondness for debauchery and how casual violence and murder began to destabilise what had once been touted as a new `Golden Age' for Rome. Nero's death plunged the empire into anarchy and civil war. From here on in, the Roman Empire woul