Perspectives on Nero: II

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)

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II. Sources for Nero

• Suetonius (born ca. 70), Lives of the Twelve Caesars
• Tacitus (born ca. 56), Annales

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

• Agrippina and her murder (59)
• Burrus (died 62) and Seneca (died 65)
• Tigellinus
• Poppaea Sabina (died 65)
• Fire (64) and building of Domus Aurea
• Pisonian Conspiracy (65)
• Foreign affairs

1. Revolt of Boudicca (60)
2. Corbulo's successes in Armenia (63)
3. Revolt in Judaea (66)

IV. Nero, Romans and the Rise of Christianity

Correspondence between Trajan and Pliny

V. Nero, Romans, and popular entertainment