Contents ▼▲
Front Matter The Emperor's Plan The Hatching of a Plot In the Circus A New Ally A Great Fire Baffled Flight Pudens An Imperial Musician A Great Bribe A Scapegoat The Edict In Hiding The Persecution What the Temple Servant Saw What the Soldiers Thought In the Prison Surrender Epicharis Acts The Plot Thickens Betrayed Vacillation A Last Chance The Death of a Philosopher The Fate of Subrius A Place of Refuge Meeting Again

Burning of Rome - Alfred J. Church



This book covers a dramatic period of Nero's reign, encompassing the catastrophic fire that destroyed Rome and the rebellion, known as Piso's Conspiracy, that soon followed. Virtually all of the characters in this book are based on historical Romans, and the levels of treachery, cowardice, martyrdom, and villainy displayed by the characters in this drama would be incredible if they were not actually true.

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THE MARRIAGE OF CLAUDIA AND PUDENS


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Prefatory Note

The Claudia of this story may be identified with the British princess whose marriage to a certain Pudens is celebrated by Martial in a pleasant little epigram, and, possibly, with the Claudia whose name occurs among the greetings of St Paul's Second Epistle to Timothy. It would have been interesting to identify her husband with the Pudens whose name stands so near hers in the Epistle, but the difficulties of doing so seem insuperable.

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