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The Roman World: Lecture 18 Bad Emperors: Claudius and Nero
(Eve D'Ambra Art and Iden5ty in the Roman World, p. 60) hcp://dangerfew.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/blog-‐post_22.html
Nero’s sex crimes
• Incest with mother • raping a Vestal Virgin • castra[ng and marrying Sporus • marrying Doryphorus (freedman)
The low life ac@vity
Disguised as a slave, he ranged the streets, brothels, and taverns with his friends, who pilfered goods from shops and assaulted wayfarers… When it became known that the waylayer was the emperor, acacks on dis[nguished men and women mul[plied. For, since disorderliness was tolerated, pseudo-‐Neros mobilized gangs and behaved similarly, with impunity. Rome by night came to resemble a conquered city.