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Dying Every Day

Seneca at the Court of Nero

James Romm

This book delves into the tumultuous life of Seneca, Rome's preeminent writer and philosopher, who was appointed tutor to twelve-year-old Nero, the future emperor. As Seneca watched over Nero, he was also enmeshed in the twisted imperial family, controlled by Nero's mother, a great-granddaughter of Emperor Augustus. Dying Every Day is a portrait of Seneca's moral struggle in the midst of madness and excess as he grapples with his role as Nero's adviser and the evil regime he created. This compelling and nightmarish story tells of the philosopher-poet who was almost a king and whose descent saw five family murders, the Fire of Rome, and a savage purge that destroyed the supreme minds of the Senate's golden age.
Publish Date
2014-03-11T00:00:00.000Z
2014-03-11T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
4.13
ISBN
0884234621817
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2019-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Honorable mention to a few other books I really enjoyed this year: Winners Take All, by Anand Giridharadas; Automating Inequality, by Virginia Eubanks; Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero, by James Romm; In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larsen; AI Superpowers, by Kai-Fu Lee; Antarctica, by Kim Stanley Robinson, and its true-life counterpart, Mawson's Will, by Lennard Bickel.      source