Nero in the arts and popular culture

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus and his reign have featured in music, literature, the arts, and in business.

As portrayed by Alberto Sordi in Nero's Mistress (1956)

Literature

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  • Sienkiewicz, Henryk. 1896. Quo Vadis: The persecutions of Christians in Nero's Rome.
  • Kosztolányi, Dezső. 1922. Nero, the Bloody Poet: A novel imagining Nero's crimes as the acts of an envious poet.
  • Graves, Robert. 1934. I, Claudius: Nero is depicted prior to the death of his predecessor, Emperor Claudius
  • Gyles, Mary Francis. 1947. "Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned." The Classical Journal: explores the history behind the legend of Nero playing the fiddle as Rome burned.
  • Wishart, David. 1996. Nero: Nero's reign seen through the eyes of Titus Petronius.
  • Massie, Allan. 1999. Nero's Heirs: The death of Nero and the civil war that followed.
  • Holt, Tom. 2003. A Song for Nero: Nero's double is killed, and the real Nero must try to survive as a street musician.
  • Scott, Manda. 2010. The Emperor's Spy: The story of the Great Fire of Rome, featuring Nero as a secondary character.
  • Riordan, Rick. 2016–2020. The Trials of Apollo: Nero and two other evil Roman emperors have survived into modern times because their infamy has essentially made them gods. Nero is known as "the Beast" and serves as the adoptive father of one of the heroes of the series, demigod Meg McCaffrey. Nero is an antagonist in the entire series, but is featured most prominently in the first and last books of the pentalogy. In the first book, The Hidden Oracle, Nero tries to destroy the Grove of Dodona and is thwarted by Meg and Apollo. In the final book, The Tower of Nero, Apollo, Meg, and their friends must have a final showdown with Nero and his minions at his headquarters in New York.
  • Georges, Margaret. 2017. The Confessions of Young Nero: The story of Nero's rise to power as told by the young emperor himself.
  • Georges, Margaret. 2018. The Splendor before the Dark: Continuation of the story to the final years of Nero's reign.

Comics/graphic novels

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  • The Adventures of Nero: The title character Nero is named after the Roman emperor. In his debut appearance, the character believes himself to be the emperor himself after drinking poisoned beer. Later he regains his sanity, while all characters keep referring to him as Nero from that moment onwards.[1] In the album De Rode Keizer (The Red Emperor, 1952) Nero travels back in time to Ancient Rome and actually meets the real emperor Nero.
  • The Phantom: Nero is said to have been the original owner of The Phantom's "skull ring"[2]
 
Statue of Nero by Claudio Valenti, Anzio, Italy (2010)

Software and video games

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Film

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Music

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Stage productions

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Opera

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Plays

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Television

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See also: Nero (Character) imdb.com page

References

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  1. ^ "Marc Sleen".
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  3. ^ Draper, Robert (September 2014). "Rethinking Nero". National Geographic. Archived from the original on August 18, 2014. Retrieved April 7, 2015.
  4. ^ "Ahead Software: Nero Burning ROM" IT Reviews Archived 2007-10-21 at the Wayback Machine 2000-04-05
  5. ^ "Quo Vadis (1951) - IMDb". IMDb.
  6. ^ Nero's guests (2009)
  7. ^ "Secrets of the Dead". pbs.org/wnet/secrets/.
  8. ^ "Karel Kryl - Bivoj - text písně - Lyricon.net". Archived from the original on 2011-08-30. Retrieved 2011-08-29.
  9. ^ U2Wanderer.org lyric of Mercy Retrieved 2009 10 19
  10. ^ "Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned" by Mary Francis Gyles The Classical Journal, Jan. 1947 21 April 2010
  11. ^ "...he tells me Nero is an angler in the Lake of Darkness", see Edith Sitwell. Selected Letters. Edited by John Lehman and Derek Parker. Macmillan 1970
  12. ^ "BBC One - Doctor Who".
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