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Historical person
39–65
Lucan was a Roman poet of the first century AD and author of the Civil War. His epic depicts the conflict between Caesar and Pompey without a conventional divine framework, emphasising political violence, tyranny and the destruction of republican liberty.
In Margaret George’s Emperor Nero, the narrative covers the Pisonian conspiracy and the enforced deaths of figures including Seneca, Lucan and Petronius, followed by Poppaea’s death, Nero’s artistic tour of Greece and the final revolts against his government.
Historical context
Series
Margaret George’s Nero duology reconstructs the life of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor, beginning with a childhood in which imperial blood makes Nero a target and ending with the collapse of his reign. Told largely through Nero’s own perspective, the series follows his passage through the courts of Caligula…
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