Professor Mary Beard
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 1 May
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Well, he's in a dysfunctional family, I think would be our way of putting it.
He's born in 37 CE, and his name is actually then Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, which means bronze beard, right?
That was what we would call his surname.
I'm called Beard and I don't have one.
Nero's surname was Bronzebeard.
And his dad was a pretty despicable character called Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus.
And there's loads of stories, horrible stories told about him, like how he once ran over a child deliberately in the street in his chariot.
Or even worse, no, not worse, but about as bad.
He killed one of his staff when they refused to drink as much as he told them they should.
Right?
I mean, and these are recounted as instances.
We've got to...
Anyway, happily, perhaps, for Nero, he died when Nero was about three.
Was his dad in politics?
What did his dad do?
All Roman men are in politics.
Oh, OK, OK.
Never mind.
Sorry.
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