Nero

A meteor cuts across the Roman sky as Agrippina watches her husband die—and asks the astrologer whether her son will rule. “Nero shall reign,” he says, “but he shall kill his mother.”

In the Great Hall of the Palace of the Caesars, Rome’s future is being decided while the city cheers at a torchlit chariot race. Nero returns victorious, still unaware that Emperor Claudius is dead and his mother has set the throne before him. Agrippina has bought the Praetorians’ support, silenced witnesses and hidden the truth from Claudius’s children; now she must secure Nero’s succession and hold on to the power she has won. Yet Seneca sees a danger in giving an artist absolute power, and the stars have already spoken. What will Nero make of the world placed in his hands?

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