Perspectives on Nero: I

I. Lingua Latina

• Words attributed to some Julio-Claudian emperors

1. O homines ad servitutem paratos! (allegedly said by Tiberius about Roman senators)
   
2. Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet! (supposedly said by Caligula)
   

• Phrases connected with Nero

1. occidat, dum imperet (from Tacitus)
2. ventrem feri (from Tacitus)
3. qualis artifex pereo (from Suetonius)

Remaining from last week: Julio-Claudians

II. Nero's reign (54-68): central events and characters

III. Hollywood's Nero: Quo Vadis (1951)
Rome and the Hollywood Epic

Scenes from Quo Vadis

• Nero Sings
• Rome Burns 

V. Sources for Nero

• Suetonius (born ca. 70), Lives of the Twelve Caesars