The Book of Ancient Bastards: 101 of the Worst Miscreants and Misdeeds From Ancient Sumer to the Enlightenment by Brian Thornton
Author:Brian Thornton [Thornton, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: History
ISBN: 1440524882
Google: beEvuz-wHIkC
Amazon: B005KWMD1M
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Goodreads: 10145498
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 2011-05-18T00:00:00+00:00
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MARCUS SALVIUS OTHO
The Emperor as Scheming Pretty Boy
( A.D. 32–69)
When civil war in the balance lay, and mincing Otho might have won the day, bloodshed too costly did he spare the land, and pierced his heart with an unfaltering hand.
—Martial, Epigrams
One of Nero’s closest friends and confidants during the early years of his reign was a fashion-plate dilettante named Marcus Salvius Otho (the two men were rumored to have been lovers). Vain, shallow, and frivolous, Otho only survived Nero’s fall because he and the emperor argued over a woman (?!?). By A.D. 68, Otho found himself posted as governor of a frontier province in what is now Portugal, far from Rome and from the bloodbath that followed Nero’s death.
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