The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor Nero and His City (43 page)

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Authors: Stephen Dando-Collins

Tags: #History, #Ancient, #Rome

 
and conspiracy
 
Circus Maximus
 
and arcades
 
and chariot races
 
and Great Fire
 
and prostitutes
 
rebuilding of
 
Citizenship.
See also
Noncitizens
 
City Cohortes.
See
Cohortes Urbanus
 
City Guard.
See
Cohortes Urbanus
 
Civic Crown
 
Claudia Augusta (daughter of Nero)
 
Claudius
 
and aqueducts
 
and Britain
 
and cult of Isis
 
and gladiatorial contest
 
and Jewish priests
 
and Jews
 
and Praetorian prefects
 
and public opinion
 
and Seneca
 
Clemens, Flavius
 
Clemens, Salienus
 
Cleonicus
 
Cleopatra
 
Cluvius Rufus
 
and Nero, fall of
 
Cohortes Urbanus (aka City Cohorts; City Guard)
 
and Great Fire
 
Cohortes Vigiles (aka Night Watch)
 
and Great Fire
 
Colosseum
 
Colossus
 
Comets
 
Conquisitors (recruiting officers)
 
Conscripts
 
Conspiracy
 
and Epicharis
 
and Flavus, Subrius
 
and interrogation
 
and Piso (
see also
Piso Plot)
 
and Proculus, Volusius
 
and Seneca
 
See also
Piso Plot; Plots and revolts
 
Conspirators, torture of
 
Corbulo, Lucius Domitius
 
as Nero’s successor
 
and Tiridates I,
 
Corinth Canal
 
Corn supply
 
Commissioner of
 
Cornelia (vestal)
 
Courier service
 
Crassus, Marcus
 
Crescens (companion of Saint Paul)
 
Criminals, execution of
 
Crispinus, Rufius
 
Crucifixion.
See also
Executions
 
Cult of Isis
 
and animals, adoration of
 
and executions
 
and Great Fire
 
Curia
 
Cybele
 
Cynics
 
 
De vita Caesarium
(Lives of the Caesars; Suetonius)
 
Demas (companion of Saint Paul)
 
Demetrius the Cynic
 
Demianus, Claudius
 
Dice
 
Dio, Cassius
 
and Great Fire, account of
 
Dio Chrysostom
 
Divorce
 
Domitia Decidiana (wife of Agricola)
 
Domitia (vestal)
 
Domitian, Emperor
 
and cult of Isis
 
and vestals
 
Domitian (son of Vespasian)
 
and chariot races
 
Domitius Ahenobarbus
 
Domitius Caecilianus
 
Domus Transitoria
 
Dress code
 
Druidism
 
Drusus
 
 
Earthquakes
 
Ecloge (nurse)
 
Egypt
 
Jewish Revolt in
 
Egyptian obelisk
 
Egyptians
 
and cult of Isis(
see also
Cult of Isis)
 
Engineering
 
Epaphroditus
 
execution of
 
and Nero, demise of
 
Epicharis
 
and conspiracy
 
torture of
 
Epilepsy
 
Epistle of Clement Romanus
 
Equestrian Order
 
Esquiline Hill
 
and Great Fire
 
Eternal flame
 
Ethiopia
 
Evacuation, and firefighting
 
Execution(s)
 
ancient style of
 
of criminals
 
and cult of Isis
 
vs. suicide(
see also
Suicide)
 
See also
Crucifixion
 
 
Felix, Antonius
 
Ferentum
 
Festival of Isis
 
Festival of Minerva
 
Festival of Vesta
 
Festival of Vulcan
 
Festivals.
See also individual festivals;
Religious festivals
 
Fiddle myth.
See also
Lyre
 
Fire regulations
 
Firefighting
 
Fires.
See also
Great Fire
 
First Triumvirate
 
Flavia Domitilla (wife of Flavius Clemens)
 
Flavian Theater
 
Flavius Josephus.
See
Joseph bar Matthias
 
Flavus, Subrius
 
and conspiracy
 
interrogation of
 
Florus, Gessius
 
Food establishments
 
Food tasters
 
Fortunatus
 
Forum Romanum
 
and Great Fire
 
Frascati
 
Frontinus, Julius
 
Fundanus Basin
 
Gaius Caesar.
See
Caligula
 
Gaius Fannius
 
Gaius Petronius Arbiter.
See
Petronius, Gaius
 
Gaius Plinius.
See
Pliny the Elder
 
Galba, Lucius Servius
 
assassination of
 
and cult of Isis
 
and Nero, fall of
 
as Nero’s successor
 
and Tigellinus
 
Galla, Atria (wife of Piso)
 
Gallio, Junius (aka Novatus; brother of Seneca)
 
Gallio, Junius (senator, adoptive father of above)
 
Gallus, Cestius
 
Gamaliel I,
 
Gambling
 
Games.
See individual games
 
Gardens of Agrippa
 
Gardens of Caesar
 
Gardens of Maecenas
 
and Great Fire
 
Gardens of Sallust
 
Gauls
 
Gerellanus
 
and conspiracy
 
and Nero, demise of
 
German Guard
 
Germanicus’ Benches
 
Germanicus Julius Caesar
 
and Egypt
 
murder of
 
Getae
 
Glabrio, Manius Acilius
 
Gladiatorial contest
 
and beast hunts
 
and criminals, execution of
 
and gambling
 
and parade
 
Gladiators
 
female
 
Gods
 
Golden House
 
and fund-raising
 
Grain supply
 
Graptus
 
Great Fire
 
and arson
 
and building and fire regulations
 
cause of
 
and Christian martyrs
 
at Circus Maximus
 
and cult of Isis
 
deaths cause by
 
and disaster relief measures
 
end of
 
historian accounts of
 
and historian interpolations
 
and looting
 
and Nero, fall of
 
and Nero at singing contest
 
and Nero’s return to Rome
 
and Piso Plot
 
and rebuilding and restoration
 
and religious festivals
 
and water regulations
 
and water supply system
 
Great Fire relief fund
 
Great Games (Ludi Magni)
 
Great Sanhedrin
 
Greece, singing contest in.
See also
Singing contest
 
Greed
 
Greek Games.
See also individual games
 
Greek tour
 
Greek tour
 
Greeks, as artists
 
 
Hadrian
 
Helius
 
execution of
 
and Nero, fall of
 
Helvia
 
Helvidius
 
Hemlock.
See also
Poison
 
Herod the Great
 
Historians
 
and Great Fire, accounts of

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