...Tacitus describes Galba, Otho, and Vitellius, as well as the volgus, as simulacra, because they represent imitations of imitations. Nero revealed the truth of the principate, but although he apparently had his critics, he was still a Julio–Claudian, which was enough to sustain...

... of the past. The stories abounded concerning Nero's sexual excesses and his penchant for public performance is reported. The Moral Epistles applied Stoic ethical doctrine to a variety of specific situations. Musonius argues that a master having sex with a female slave is no better than...

...This chapter pairs Galba and Otho with the so-called specter of Nero, which represents public disorientation at the imbalance within a familiar ideological structure. Neither of these first two pretenders can overcome its influence. Annals ambiguity in Arcanum imperii False Nero phenomenon...