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Historical person
1–62
Sextus Afranius Burrus was the Praetorian prefect who helped guide the early reign of Nero. Together with Seneca he was associated with a comparatively restrained phase of government before his death weakened the balance around the young emperor.
In Margaret George’s The Confessions of Young Nero, Nero enters power at sixteen under the guidance of Seneca and Burrus, yet he must also resist his mother’s expectation that she will rule through him.
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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