Professor Mary Beard
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662 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 1 May
Professor Mary Beard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's called the Golden House.
He built it.
Fast palace.
Fantastic.
All right, anyway.
Another historian, Cassius Dio, he doesn't have that argument so much as saying, look,
He just wanted to kind of go down in a blaze, right?
He really wanted, as it were, to be like the King of Troy and see his city blaze around him and go down with his city, you know, because it was such a great way to go.
Yeah.
The story is... King Priam fantasy camp.
Yeah.
The story really is that he... Nero was outside Rome when the fire started, but people said that they'd seen some of Nero's staff going round, you know, setting fire to things, you know, the kind of... We'd say with a can of oil and some matches, but it was...
And he does come back and it is repeatedly reported that he does go and watch it from just a little bit, you know, from into safety.
And while he does that, he plays his lyre and he sings a song about the destruction of Troy, the city of Troy.
I mean, that's what, yeah.
Again, there are things to be said in favour of him and against.
Well, OK, so in the against column, he blames Christians.
He blamed the Christians.
And he punished... There was already a relatively small sect of Christians in Rome.
Roman pagan writers thought it was perfectly fine to trash the Christians.
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