Rome is burning : Nero and the fire that ended a dynasty / Anthony A. Barrett.
Rome is burning : Nero and the fire that ended a dynasty / Anthony A. Barrett.
Rome is burning : Nero and the fire that ended a dynasty / Anthony A. Barrett.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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G 2020/4021
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English
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xii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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New Jersey
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[2020]
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"Nero became Emperor in A.D 54. On the evening of July 18, 64 A. D., it seems that a lamp was left unextinguished in a stall still heaped with piles of combustible material. Whether this was accidental or deliberate we cannot now determine, and normally it would not have led to anything that would have attracted even local attention. But there was...
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Rome is burning : Nero and the fire that ended a dynasty / Anthony A. Barrett.
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Turning points in ancient history
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-334) and index.
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G 2020/4021
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74VKaMrrXevO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaMrrXevO
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0691172315 (hardback)
9780691172316 (hardback)
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937.6307
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991024349417802626
