Professor Mary Beard
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 1 May
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The punishments that he meted out were so awful...
that it was said that there was even pity for the Christians because of the horrible ways in which he put them to death.
So basically Christians were partly fair game in this kind of PR campaign.
But Nero is said to have gone too far.
That comes a bit later.
But in the Christian tradition, Nero is said to be the first persecutor of the Christians.
Nero is kind of the devil incarnate in Christian teaching.
And it goes back to this.
It goes back to him blaming them for the fire of Rome and punishing them horribly.
That's terrible.
Yeah, it comes after the fire, the year after the fire.
And it's in 65 CE, and tens, 50-odd people are charged with being in a conspiracy to overthrow Rome.
overthrow Nero, not Rome.
Well, he is Rome.
He is Rome.
I am Rome.
What they want to do is they want to have a new emperor.
They've got a guy called Piso as a potential candidate and replace Nero.
Now, why it's important in the Neronian story is that Seneca, the tutor, was said to be implicated in it.
So Nero's tutor by this stage has turned against him.
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