Category:Nero--research (subject)

Works of scholarship related to Nero

Overview

Critical scholarship has been engaged in recovering "the man behind the myth. Already Josephus warned against the many biases that affected the historiography on Nero:

There have been a great many who have composed the history of Nero; some of which have departed from the truth of facts out of favour, as having received benefits from him; while others, out of hatred to him, and the great ill-will which they bore him, have so impudently raved against him with their lies, that they justly deserve to be condemned. (Ant XX.8.3).