While he, like many Roman emperors, undoubtedly caused deaths ... who stabbed him in the neck. Epaphroditus looks on, alongside Nero’s enslaved lover Sporus, a young man Nero treated as his ...

When he became emperor, Nero was a young man who ... drama and athletics. However, like Caligula before him, Nero had a dark side. His impulses began as simple extravagance. Before long, however ...

The palace is called the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, erected by and for Nero. When the ... “But look at the great Christian emperor Constantine. He had his first son, his second wife, and ...