Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nero, life of a roman emperor Author: Suetonius Narrator: Jonathan Waite Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 34 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Suetonius' most important surviving work is known as the De Vita Caesarum, a set of twelve biographies of the successive Roman rulers. The emperor Nero's reign is one weird tale of sexual depravity and extravagant sadism. He was a gifted musician, and is said to have given great concerts of which attendance was compulsory; women were said to have given birth during the performance, and men were driven to fake death to escape. Nero kicked his pregnant wife to death and then had a young boy castrated to replace her as his spouse; then, during the great fire of Rome, he is said to have played the lyre to emphasize the beauty of the destruction. His eccentricities are a continuation of the tradition of his predecessors, only more perverted; Suetonius' account portray a strange man in strange times. - -
