Professor Mary Beard
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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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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.
And he is forced to suicide because that's a standard form of Roman execution.
This was a military conspiracy.
It was a military revolt.
This is a coup, right?
It's a coup.
It's basically a coup.
It's not a few of the kind of not terribly effective elite like Seneca and his friends doing it in Rome.
This starts in the provinces and Nero sees the game is up.
There's fighting, but in the end it's clear that people are turning away from Nero to the rebels.
And what he does is he goes out to a suburban villa and he realises he has to kill himself.
He's got more than one lot, I'm afraid.
But the famous one is qualis artefacts perio.
What an artist and artefacts.
What an artist is dying when I die.
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