Penguin Epics : The Madness of Nero

Penguin Epics : The Madness of Nero

by Tacitus (Author)

Synopsis

An Emperor's crimes provoke the wrath of the gods. Nero has seized control of Rome and the crown. He is willing to destroy anyone that gets in his way. No one is safe not even his scheming mother. As its new Emperor sinks to insane levels of brutality, Rome becomes a hell of corruption, depravity and vice. But dark omens hang over the city. Has the power-crazed Nero gone too far?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 04 May 2006

ISBN 10: 0141026863
ISBN 13: 9780141026862

Author Bio
Tacitus studied rhetoric in Rome and rose to eminence as a pleader at the Roman Bar. In 77 he married the daughter of Agricola, conqueror of Britain, of whom he later wrote a biography.