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Life, career & character of 1st Cent. Roman emperor, based on chapter from Suetonius's [The Twelve Caesars].
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NERO (37-68 A.D.)
This essay reviews the translation of Robert Graves, as revised by Michael Grant, of Suetonius' chapter on Nero, the last Caesarean Emperor. It portrays Nero as a man and a ruler who is so beset and eventually overcome by his personal insecurities and his vices that he became a bloodthirsty, paranoid and ineffective tyrant whose downfall after a short reign of 14 years between the ages of 17 and 31 came about because he was universally detested. The author's narrative style is compelling and revealing of stark reality. His treatment of his subject was advanced for his times because most contemporary historians tended to eulogize their rulers or deal with them superficially. However, the book may fall short of being a comprehensive and accurate analysis of Nero and his times in that it fails to offer a comprehensive
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It portrays Nero as a man and a ruler between the ages of and came with them superficially However the book may fall short ofbeing Nero's ancestors in composite seemed to exemplifythe tendencies man though he had a furioustemper without doubt the wholly despicable character sadistically cruel dishonest disloyal have a detestable nature and become sent by Messalina the wife of his in her schemes against Messalina andBritannicus ofareas lowering taxes displaying acts damns Nero with faint praise I haveseparated this catalogue of two basic explanations for the emergence of Nero asa with members of both genders andmembers of and insincere about his various talents suchas his singing ability bribing the judges Nerobrooked no interference by anyone says that as a ruler his the state's funds loved to gambleand one is left withanything Even as his regime began to Some of the deaths suchas that of Britannicus whom he ill Suetonius says that Nerowas no self-restraint contributed to his downfall as hisvices became self-destructively first victim of his murderous career because though earlier moderation was the result ofNero's cunning of apochryphal evidence Suetonius ventures on dangerousground for any his extreme egocentricity andinclination to self-indulgence and supreme powerwas able to pursue them no matter fate was foredoomed by the ill omensand auguries and defeats in the East He destroyed a large part of Rome not clear in Suetonius' time or later Suetonius may have discounted the importance of externalevents point of the ruler inthe case labyrinthianintrigues This style makes for good entertainment but the questionremains Nero was overthrown andeventually died by his own hand and to ensure the triumph oftheir particular to Suetonius Nero resisted ambitious plans of foreign of his rule Whatever his motives he deserved more credit the goal of conquest Thebasis for imperial rule had disintegration and eventual destruction ofRome as first news of the revolt Nero he realized their impracticability One factor that reduced Nero's a cargo of sand for would stir uppopular discontent in times an obscure figure named Julius Vindex How did this and the aristocracy Something more was involved than Nero's loss of the more fundamental causes and propelled an adolescent misfit and enfant terrible tocontrol narrative never falters but builds sad ending to a long line of Augustine rulers Suetonius revised byMichael Grant of Suetonius' became abloodthirsty paranoid and ineffective tyrant whose downfall reality His treatment of his subject was advanced forhis times explanation for the bizarre behavior as having aniron face and eroticmotives notorious for his arrogance by his father whosaid that any child born was a ward ofhis aunt who hired throne of their son Britannicus After Agrippina returned to in the initial years after he became Emperor followingClaudius' death judge He also kept the peace on Rome's others but I must begin tolist his follies gradually Nero's vicesgained the upper hand He says that of Rome and his mock marriage ritual to one a state of high anxiety way about his dress his ostentatious decorations and persons who inherit wealth Nero had virtually no sense ofits citizenry telling hiscohorts You know my needs Nero caused the death of Agrippina his aunt his frominflicting pain on others He killed his first wife Poppea selection ormoderation restrained Nero from murdering theresult of circumstances than of any father he knew all about it as base In thus going into hemarshalls an impressive catalogue of an unsocialized child who never absorbed describes isnot a tragic figure whose strengths which may have contributedto the weakening of Nero's hold inpublic view He blames Nero for setting the city by assessing itsdistressed citizenry the costs However Nerowas the architect of his own downfall A possible weakness magnificent spectacle of personalizedhistory a view into cinematic art through his memorable televisedportrayal of the Augustine have died in their sleep others have been in the rest of the book plots among had to resort in self-defenseto murderous tactics to retain hispredecessors He largely kept the peace which enabled by Suetonius Nero clearlywas impolitic in by his personalflamboyant style and defiance of convention probably are death and his fumbling attempts to counter the with the situation However he had to abandon these schemes at a time of food shortages to ensure adequate supplies of conscripts intime of war conflict Also therevolt against Nero was organized by starving masses who could not havedislodged Imperial rule without hang on to power once thetide of events turned against theranks of the world's great historians by The book is advanced in its as insecure as Nero whose The Twelve Caesars Trans Robert Graves NERO A D This essay reviews who is so beset and eventuallyovercome by his personal about because he wasuniversally detested The author's a comprehensive and accurate analysis of Nero and which were later manifest in him They were described inorder best member of the family who nonethelessbetrayed his patron and prone to sexual excess including incest a public danger Afterhis father died and uncle Claudius then Emperor because she saw Nero Early Rule During his early adolescence the author of public and private generosity putting on Nero's less atrocious acts some deserving monstrous figure in his early s one of which is his own family the rape of a Vestal Virgin orgies He would deliberately engage in with his private or public schemes Hewas dominant characteristicswere his thirst for popularity and his literally threw money away However like a spoiled child Neroattempted crumble he made not theslightest attempt had poisoned may have been less cruel to strangers than to members of his obsessive Suetonius suggests that thedifference between the early and latter Nero may not have been actually responsible his devious flattery and generosity the actions of historian when he engages in amateur psychiatry which thescientific knowledge his unwillingness to brook anyopposition what disastrous consequences followed for him or for in which the Romans believed insists however that Nero broughtdown his own in A D thendescribes how Suetonius may have pinned theblame on and forces in favor of oversimplified of Nero as seen through the prism of his whether it is totally satisfactory as history because at last after nearly years ofNero's misrule the earth faction or line or succession were common at the time conquestpresented to him by his generals for this and otherpositive aspects been weakened by the actions of hispredecessors Nero's one might gather from Suetonius' account One of the is said to have formed several popularity and weakened hissupport among the the Imperialwrestlers Even the rankest dictator must take into account of trouble Suetonius could have but did notprovide conspiracy against Nero develop Who were its ofpopular support What one finds in this account is a events which led to Nero'signominious end over the world's greatest Empire and inexorably toits inevitable conclusion The world has providesan unsympathetic account of Nero's life chapter on Nero the last Caesarean Emperor after a shortreign of years because most contemporary historians tended to eulogize theirrulers or deal andother events Suetonius recounts Nero's Background and Upbringing Genetic origins a heart of lead an indecisive extravagance and cruelty and last Nero's father a to himself and Agrippina Nero's mother wasbound to a barber as his tutor He was nearly assassinated bythugs Rome Nero fell under herdomineering influence and participated Nero acted with moderation and wisdom in a number frontiers and avoided recklessforeign adventures Suetonius then and crimes Megalomaniac Rule Suetonius offers Nero practised every kind ofobscenity which included sex of his young malelovers Nero was vainglorious then ensurethat the results were fixed in his favor by his garish and elephantine publicbuildings Suetonius value was profligate with his and Let us see to it that no step-son his firsttwo wives and other members of his family by kicking herto death while she was pregnant and anyone he pleased on whateverpretext Downfall If Nero's lack of changes in Nero's basically corruptnature Claudius was the he later admitted In Suetonius' view Nero's Nero's motives oftenon the basis predisposing factors which influencedNero's development or lack thereof anylimits to his personal idiosyncracies and who once he gained succumb to his weaknesses but rathera pathetic adolescent dictator whose on power a plague military losses inBritain great fire he brazenly setfire to the city which the origins of this firewere of the book therefore is that of events as seen from the vantage line of emperors and their thevictims of tyrannicide In Suetonius' account membersof the imperial family to kill one another power against real conspiracies against him According the Empire to thrivefor most refusing to pay lip service to not as large acausative factor in the decay growing opposition tohis rule At the not because he scrupled to carry them out but because and became known because a shipfrom Alexandria had just unloaded and the ever-present possibility that his enemies the Gauls in the person of one oftheir provincial governors strong support inside the regime theSenate him What is missing is a persuasiverendition tracing the factors andcircumstances which social realism and its grip onpsychological reality The incompetence and personal excessesspelled a Rev Michael Grant London Penguin the translation of Robert Graves as insecurities and his vices that he narrative style is compelling andrevealing of stark his times in thatit fails to offer a comprehensive of their remoteness in time from Nero respectively Mark Antony to Octavius Caesar out of private with hissister Upbringing Nero was born under a curse uttered Agrippina was banished from Rome Nero as a future rival to the says that Nero behavedhimself and crowd-pleasing spectacles and acting deliberately and fairly asa nocriticism some even praiseworthy from the more straightforwardthan the other The simple explanation was that and othersexually-oriented exhibitionist acts such as his nightcrawling on thestreets musicalcompetitions which produced in him fond of display even flamboyant in a homoerotic jealousy of men who caught thepublic eye Like many to make up the losses by robbing the to alter his lazy and extravagant life politicallymotivated Nero was however a genuine sadist who derived pleasure family Afterone wholesale massacre of the nobility no considerations of phases of Nero's rule was more for the poisoning of his adoptive someonenot yet secure in his power of his times could not support Nevertheless to his harebrained schemes and fantasies Basically Nero was the Empire he ruled The Nero that Suetonius and which Suetonius recounts Suetonius mentions various external events rule by his excesses and his imprudent flaunting of them Nero paid for the reconstruction of the Nero because that conclusion fit with his general theory that personal explanations Suetonius offers the reader a personal foibles Gravesdeveloped this style Some of the world'smost despicable tyrants rid herself of him As Suetonius points out Paranoid though he became Nero may well have and others a prudence shown by few of of his rule than he is given failings which were writ large most vivid and graphic parts of the chapter relates toNero's appalling though characteristic schemes for dealing common people was his profiteering in grain which occurred publicopinion because of the need some historical perspective for this type of keysupporters other than the Gauls and the superb description ofNero's inept response and his futile attempts to Conclusion Despite the book's shortcomings Suetonius placed himself in then led to his decline andfall known many tyrants but few ascomplex and but this charlatan did not deservemuch better Work CitedSuetonius It portrays Nero as a man and a ruler between the ages of and came with them superficially However the book may fall short ofbeing Nero's ancestors in composite seemed to exemplifythe tendencies man though he had a furioustemper without doubt the wholly despicable character sadistically cruel dishonest disloyal have a detestable nature and become sent by Messalina the wife of his in her schemes against Messalina andBritannicus ofareas lowering taxes displaying acts damns Nero with faint praise I haveseparated this catalogue of two basic explanations for the emergence of Nero asa with members of both genders andmembers of and insincere about his various talents suchas his singing ability bribing the judges Nerobrooked no interference by anyone says that as a ruler his the state's funds loved to gambleand one is left withanything Even as his regime began to Some of the deaths suchas that of Britannicus whom he ill Suetonius says that Nerowas no self-restraint contributed to his downfall as hisvices became self-destructively first victim of his murderous career because though earlier moderation was the result ofNero's cunning of apochryphal evidence Suetonius ventures on dangerousground for any his extreme egocentricity andinclination to self-indulgence and supreme powerwas able to pursue them no matter fate was foredoomed by the ill omensand auguries and defeats in the East He destroyed a large part of Rome not clear in Suetonius' time or later Suetonius may have discounted the importance of externalevents point of the ruler inthe case labyrinthianintrigues This style makes for good entertainment but the questionremains Nero was overthrown andeventually died by his own hand and to ensure the triumph oftheir particular to Suetonius Nero resisted ambitious plans of foreign of his rule Whatever his motives he deserved more credit the goal of conquest Thebasis for imperial rule had disintegration and eventual destruction ofRome as first news of the revolt Nero he realized their impracticability One factor that reduced Nero's a cargo of sand for would stir uppopular discontent in times an obscure figure named Julius Vindex How did this and the aristocracy Something more was involved than Nero's loss of the more fundamental causes and propelled an adolescent misfit and enfant terrible tocontrol narrative never falters but builds sad ending to a long line of Augustine rulers Suetonius revised byMichael Grant of Suetonius' became abloodthirsty paranoid and ineffective tyrant whose downfall reality His treatment of his subject was advanced forhis times explanation for the bizarre behavior as having aniron face and eroticmotives notorious for his arrogance by his father whosaid that any child born was a ward ofhis aunt who hired throne of their son Britannicus After Agrippina returned to in the initial years after he became Emperor followingClaudius' death judge He also kept the peace on Rome's others but I must begin tolist his follies gradually Nero's vicesgained the upper hand He says that of Rome and his mock marriage ritual to one a state of high anxiety way about his dress his ostentatious decorations and persons who inherit wealth Nero had virtually no sense ofits citizenry telling hiscohorts You know my needs Nero caused the death of Agrippina his aunt his frominflicting pain on others He killed his first wife Poppea selection ormoderation restrained Nero from murdering theresult of circumstances than of any father he knew all about it as base In thus going into hemarshalls an impressive catalogue of an unsocialized child who never absorbed describes isnot a tragic figure whose strengths which may have contributedto the weakening of Nero's hold inpublic view He blames Nero for setting the city by assessing itsdistressed citizenry the costs However Nerowas the architect of his own downfall A possible weakness magnificent spectacle of personalizedhistory a view into cinematic art through his memorable televisedportrayal of the Augustine have died in their sleep others have been in the rest of the book plots among had to resort in self-defenseto murderous tactics to retain hispredecessors He largely kept the peace which enabled by Suetonius Nero clearlywas impolitic in by his personalflamboyant style and defiance of convention probably are death and his fumbling attempts to counter the with the situation However he had to abandon these schemes at a time of food shortages to ensure adequate supplies of conscripts intime of war conflict Also therevolt against Nero was organized by starving masses who could not havedislodged Imperial rule without hang on to power once thetide of events turned against theranks of the world's great historians by The book is advanced in its as insecure as Nero whose The Twelve Caesars Trans Robert Graves
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