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Episode CLXXXIX - Nero and the Great Fire of Rome (Live in Canberra)
Manage episode 329113071 series 2149383
On the night of 18 July, 64 CE, a fire broke out in the Circus Maximus at Rome. It raged for nine days, destroying or damaging ten of the city’s fourteen regions.
Was the fire just a terrible accident? Or was it deliberately lit, either by dissident Christians or by the emperor Nero, who allegedly sang while Rome burned?
Recorded on 12th April 2022, in front of a live audience at the Australian National University.
Now funding on Kickstarter: Agricola (the podcast miniseries).
Guest: Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the Australian National University).
239 episodes
Manage episode 329113071 series 2149383
On the night of 18 July, 64 CE, a fire broke out in the Circus Maximus at Rome. It raged for nine days, destroying or damaging ten of the city’s fourteen regions.
Was the fire just a terrible accident? Or was it deliberately lit, either by dissident Christians or by the emperor Nero, who allegedly sang while Rome burned?
Recorded on 12th April 2022, in front of a live audience at the Australian National University.
Now funding on Kickstarter: Agricola (the podcast miniseries).
Guest: Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the Australian National University).
239 episodes
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